Lipszyc, Rywka
Summary: After more than seventy years in obscurity, the diary of a teenage girl during the Holocaust has been revealed for the first time. Rywka’s Diary is at once an astonishing historical document and a moving tribute to the many ordinary people whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust. At its heart, it is the diary of a girl named Rywka Lipszyc who detailed the brutal conditions that Jews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRIRyokan
Summary: Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication (he excelled in scriptural studies, in calligraphy, and in poetry), Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool," refusing to place himself within any established religious institution. In contrast to Zen masters of his time who presided over large...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1996
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Summary: "Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Press 1969
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Summary: Explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 LIPGalchen, Rivka.
Summary: In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family. By turns realistic, fantastical,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALHostašová, Radka
Summary: No Kiln? No Problem! Learn to make beautifully textured home décor accents with inexpensive air-dry clay! The process is easy, and the results are surprisingly stylish when you follow the tips, advice, and instruction from author and clay artist-designer Radka Hostasova. Aimed at absolute beginners-this book starts with an overview of the tools and materials needed to produce the best results....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stash Books, an imprint of C&T Publishing 2022
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Summary: When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALTrynka, Paul.
Summary: For the first time, the complete story of the enigmatic founder of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the band Brian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones' the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brief time with the band, before his death in 1969 at the infamous age of twenty-seven, was volatile and tragic. Some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, BRIAN TRYTrynka, Paul.
Summary: Born James Newell Osterberg Jr., Iggy Pop transcended life in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to become a member of the punk band the Stooges, earning the nickname "the Godfather of Punk." He is one of the most riveting and reckless performers in music history, with a commitment to his art that is perilously total. But his personal life was often a shambles, as he struggled with drug addiction, mental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007
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Summary: Draws on the author's Palestinian-Arab family life and her experiences as the owner of Brooklyn's Tanoreen restaurant to present a collection of Middle-Eastern recipes, including red snapper in grape leaves and cheese knafeh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Book Network 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 BISGalchen, Rivka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALEisenberg, Jesse
Summary: Follows the five-day interview between Rolling Stone report David Lipsky and novelist David Foster Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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Lipsky, David
Summary: Shares the author's travels with the late David Foster Wallace based on interviews from the 1996 "Infinite Jest" book tour, covering such topics as Wallace's literary process, struggles with fame, and battle with mental illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010
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Summary: Lipsky provides a no-nonsense, entertaining, and learned guide to the fundamental questions surrounding the document that governs how we govern our country. Features more than 300 illuminating annotations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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Summary: "It's Easter, and Peppa can't wait to celebrate! But the Easter Bunny won't hide any eggs if the children are looking"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE CHAGalchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALMiriam, Rivka.
Summary: "A collection of selected poems that span [the author's] career, and display her deep emotional connection to Jewish tradition, mysticism, and the Land of Israel"--Publisher's website
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 MIRChan, Reika
Summary: Based on the hit Nick Jr. TV show, this Level 1 reader, which comes with a sheet of stickers, follows Peppa as she goes to the eye doctor and takes an eye test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: When the Empire assumes control of the Kyber Temple on Jedha, Baze and Chirrut do what they can to secure the population of the Holy City with the help of Saw Gerrera, who has a plan to bring down the Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2017
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Summary: In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2013
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Summary: The children are playing baseball at school. George really wants to play, but he can't get it right! What happens when Madame Gazelle offers to help? Find out in this Level 1 reader!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: Gotham City: Witness to the brutal murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne has dedicated his life to protecting this city, taking a form to inspire hope in the innocent...and fear in the guilty. He is the masked vigilante known as the Batman. Now the battlefield has changed. Leveled by a massive earthquake that left thousands dead and millions more wounded, Gotham City has been transformed into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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Summary: Kate Kane transforms herself into Batwoman and battles a madwoman who calls herself Alice, after the character Alice in Wonderland, and thinks that everyone in Gotham is expendable in the fairy tale she has created.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010