Menasche, David.
Summary: "Based on a beloved teacher's most popular lesson, a bold, inspirational story of learning, love, and legacy that challenges us to ask: What truly matters in life?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.1 MENSummary: Orna is the mother of three children whose husband is struggling to open a restaurant. To help support her family, Orna lands a job with a former army superior who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna tries to balance work and her home life, she experiences escalating sexual harassment from her boss. A pattern of predatory behavior ultimately brings her career and marital...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WORSummary: A young man agrees to fulfill the duties of a 'shomer,' the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night. He soon finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIGSummary: An urgent documentary explores the militarization of local police departments, in their tactics, training, and acquisition of equipment, since 9/11. With unprecedented access to police conventions, equipment expos, and officers themselves, filmmaker Craig Atkinson, the son of a SWAT team member, crafts an eye-popping nonpartisan look at the changing face of law enforcement in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanish Films 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DODauwd
Contents: Macadam therapy -- Leitmotiv -- Murmure -- Glass jelly -- Analogische memories -- Unconscious -- Theory of colours
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Technicolour 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DAUSierakowiak, Dawid.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SIEDavids, Sharice
Summary: Rich, vivid illustrations by Ojibwe Woodland artist Pawis-Steckley are delivered in a graphic style that honors Indigenous people. The bold artwork adds impact to the compelling text. (Kirkus starred review) The prose is reminiscent of an inspirational speech ("Everyone's path looks different"), with a message of service that includes fun biographical facts, such as her love of Bruce Lee....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DAVMorosinotto, Davide
Summary: "Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety. Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both. As the terrible confilect rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOROvid
Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVIOvid
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1957
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 871.2 OVIMaberry, Jonathan
Summary: Big Dog and V-8 are in the crosshairs of the world's most dangerous special operative: Joe Ledger. And the members of V-8 are tasked to hunt down and obtain plans for a stolen vampire gene screener.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2015
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Longo, Davide
Summary: In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs of drug-fueled youth rampage through the countryside as the nation descends into chaos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONMenashe, Ori
Summary: "From the most sought-after dinner reservation in Los Angeles comes the dishes and stories behind the wildly popular Bavel restaurant, with recipes celebrating the diversity and variety of Middle Eastern cuisines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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Summary: Bil'in villager Emad Burnat documents the Palestinian struggle when he buys a camera to record the birth of his youngest son and he then films the turmoil and destruction happening around him as his village is threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIV1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIV
Davids, Sharice
Summary: This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVOvid
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 873.01 OVIKaiser, Menachem
Summary: "From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAISER, MENACHEM KAICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio KaiserHartman, Davida
Summary: The Growing Up Book for Boys explains the facts behind the growth spurts, body changes and mood swings of adolescence for boys aged 9-14 on the autism spectrum. The pre-teen and teenage years are a confusing time when bodies start acting with a will of their own, friendships change and crushes start to develop. Using direct literal language and cool colour illustrations, this book tells boys...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.042 HARDavids, Kenneth
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2001
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Summary: "In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candor, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mukana Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASSummary: Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers to take the child to a clinic, but the father refuses his help and his money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, Dr. Nariman learns that the boy has died under suspicious circumstances. His existential dilemma: is he responsible for the death, or did the child die of another...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSummary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Merchant 2005Dalin, David G.
Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008