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Summary: When young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old Ellie Jerome finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, she wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a wish like that to come true?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALSummary: Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILSummary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILSummary: Sampson is a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Central Park, and he holds court over all the other animals, including Nigel, a testy koala bear; Larry, a dumb but well-meaning snake; Kazar, a wildebeest with a passion for choreography; Bridget, a bright but cynical giraffe; and Benny, a squirrel who is good friends with Sampson and is trying to romance Bridget without much success....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHalpern, Justin
Summary: Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.6 HALHalpern, Justin.
Summary: After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: "That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son, let...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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Halpern, Steven.
Contents: Afro-desia -- Dance of strength -- Chic to sheik -- Astro-glide -- Ecstasy -- Rhythm method -- Chango -- Wachamba -- Chant the spirit -- Invocation -- Legacy -- Suru smiles -- Voices on the mountain -- Initiation.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Channel Sound Co. 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE HALHalperin, Mark
Summary: The authors of the best-selling Game Change present an account of the 2012 presidential election that draws on hundreds of insider interviews to illuminate what the election meant to both parties, covering such topics as the dramatic Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's Election Day triumph.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.973 HALHalpern, Jake
Summary: "After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in America. Among the few refugees to receive visas, they finally landed in JFK airport on November 8, 2016, Election Day. The family had reached a safe harbor, but woke up to the world of Donald Trump and a Muslim ban that would sever them from the grandmother, brothers, sisters, and cousins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALDHalpern, Justin.
Summary: "Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello. Then it ain't the unknown anymore and it ain't scary. Or I guess it could be a shitload scarier." Fans of the #1 bestseller Sh t My Dad Says will recognize the always-patient voice of Justin Halpern's dad as it crackles through the pages of this hysterical new book. The story begins when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Halpern, Paul
Summary: Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger is equally well known for his thought experiment about the cat in the box who ends up “spread out” in a probabilistic state, neither...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 HALAdem.
Contents: Statued -- Ringing in my ear -- Gone away -- Cut -- These are your friends -- Everything you need -- Long drive home -- Pillow -- One in a million -- There will always be.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AdemHalper, Jeff
Summary: "Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' - whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanistan, or the subliminal war of policing and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PlutoPress 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 HALHalpern, Jake.
Summary: Story of individuals who refused to evacuate their property in the face of impending disasters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 HALHalpern, Julie
Summary: After her father's accidental death, Alex refocuses on her family life only to learn that her friend, Becca, is dying of cancer, a situation that compels Alex to help Becca complete a bucket list.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HALHalpern, Justin.
Summary: "Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello. Then it ain't the unknown anymore and it ain't scary. Or I guess it could be a shitload scarier." Fans of the #1 bestseller Sh t My Dad Says will recognize the always patient voice of Justin Halpern's dad as it crackles through this hysterical new audiobook. The story begins when Justin...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Halpern, Sue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHalpern, Sue.
Summary: "A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life. At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a newleash--er, lease--on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HALHalpern, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.789 HALSussman, Adeena
Summary: In Hebrew (derived from the original Arabic), sababa means "everything is awesome," and it's this sunny spirit with which the American food writer and expat Adeena Sussman cooks and dreams up meals in her Tel Aviv kitchen. Every morning, Sussman makes her waythrough the bustling stalls of Shuk Hacarmel, her local market, which sells irresistibly fresh ingredients and tempting snacks--juicy ripe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5676 SUSAkana, Anna
Summary: "From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin to heal was comedy. So she began making YouTube videos as a form of creative expression and as a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AKANA, ANNA AKANozedar, Adele
Summary: "Foraging is one of the fastest-growing nature-related pastimes in the UK and US. There are many books about foraging but this is the only one that focuses on what is arguably everyone's favourite plant -- trees! It profiles 40 incredible trees from the UK and US -- from apple, ash, and bay, to walnut, willow, and yew, gorgeously illustrated with watercolour, pen and ink botanical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.16 NOZHalperin, David.
Summary: This sparkling debut novel, set against the backdrop of the troubled 1960s, is a coming-of-age story that weaves together a compelling psychological drama and vivid outer-space fantasy. Danny Shapiro is an isolated teenager living with a dying mother, a hostile father, and no friends. To cope with these circumstances, Danny forges a reality of his own, which includes the sinister "Three Men in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Halperin, Hanna
Summary: "By the author of Something Wild, a gripping portrait of a tumultuous, consuming relationship between a young woman and a recovering addict When Leah Kempler meets Charlie Nelson in line at the grocery store, their connection is immediate and intense. Charlie, with his big feelings and grand proclamations of love, captivates her completely. But there are peculiarities of his life-he's older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023