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Summary: From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today: immigration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 325.73 BUSContents: Disc one. Lolita / A.R. Kane -- Sloppy heart / Frazier Chorus -- With Louise / Area -- When I'm an astronaut / Louis Philippe -- I'll remember / The Chameleons -- In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings / Dead Can Dance -- Hay fever / 14 Iced Bears -- Eden / Talk Talk -- Tar baby / Shelleyan Orphan -- A dream of love / Ultra Vivid Scene -- Drugs / This Mortal Coil -- Pop song / David...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHEBurch, Bex
Contents: Dawn blessings (4:50 min) -- If I was you, I'd be doing exactly the same (5:25 min) -- Don't go back to sleep (2:42 min) -- Fruit smoothie with peanut butter (1:23 min) -- Pardieu (2:03 min) -- Start before you're ready (2:19 min) -- You thought you were free? (4:50 min) -- "Joy is not meant to be a crumb" (2:07 min) -- On falling (2:46 min) -- Follow me, I make you happy (3:48 min) -- This is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: International Anthem 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGJen, Gish
Summary: An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jen 2020Jen, Gish.
Summary: Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his WASPy wife Blondie have two adopted children of Asian descent, Lilly and Wendy. The girls are a handful, but they are nothing compared to Carnegie's mother. Mama Wong's dislike for Blondie is relentless--so much so that she introduces a Chinese woman named Lan to the household. When Lilly and Wendy begin to favor Lan over their white mother, Blondie clings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Summary: Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENContents: You got me burnin' / (Cloud9) -- Globex corp vol 1. a1 / (Dwarde & Tim Reaper) -- DarkPhase / (Dev/Null) -- The howler / (Champa B) -- U92 (fff remix) / (NewKiller) -- Oasis / (S. Kid) -- The path (part 2) / (Gridzone) -- Feel real / (Aphrodite & Nutty Jim) -- Rivers of blood (vip) / (R-Core) -- Greed and prejudice / (Vince Rollin) -- Jungle teknah / (Sherelle) -- Pinnacle part 2 / (InnerCore)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SHEJen, Gish
Summary: "In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Contents: Who's Irish? -- Birthmates -- The water faucet vision -- Duncan in China -- Just wait -- Chin -- In the American society -- House, house, home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENJen, Gish.
Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: "It was like having twins...She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium." But two years later, it's time...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Fritz, Ben.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRIButz, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 599.7524 BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.7524 BUTButz, Bob
Summary: "How does a man reconcile a passion for woods and waters with a love for family, community, and home? In this collection of insights and essays, Bob Butz finds the answers don't come easy or without a laugh. Butz is a young man seeking balance. As a boy, while others were dreaming of football fields and baseball diamonds, he was knee-deep in a neighborhood creek or off hiding in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Huron River Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 BUTZ, BOB BUTButz, Bob
Summary: From a vivid observation of conventional embalming to a helping hand in digging a grave in one of the scores of 'natural burial preserves' popping up all across America, Butz offers a witty and detailed account of his adventure into the current trend of green burials. As he weighs in on the emotional and biodegradable benefits of being buried in a blanket, shroud, or hand-made coffin crafted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spirituality & Health 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 363.75 BUTBurg, Bob.
Summary: Burg offers five simple principles of what he calls Ultimate Influence: the ability to win people to your side in a way that leaves everyone feeling great about the outcome-- and about themselves! He offers a tried-and-true framework for building alliances at work, at home, and anywhere else you seek to win people over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 BURBurg, Bob.
Contents: The go-getter -- The secret -- The law of value -- The condition -- The law of compensation -- Serving coffee -- Rachel -- The law of influence -- Susan -- The law of authenticity -- Gus -- The law of receptivity -- Full circle -- The go-giver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 BURBurg, Bob.
Summary: Presents a business parable about leadership and the impact of positive persuasion that explains how to negotiate with employees and executives to enable important business changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BURBurg, Bob
Summary: "From the acclaimed, bestselling authors of The Go-Giver, a new parable about the power of giving leadership. The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades. Its people take pride in their work and feel loyal to their owners and management team. But this long-revered company is now at a crossroads, hurt by a tough economy, foreign competition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 BURBush, Kate
Contents: disc 1. Lily -- Hounds of love -- Joanni -- Top of the city -- Never be mine -- Running up that hill (A deal with God) -- King of the mountain --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BUSContents: Disc 1. (53:44). Blue moon of Kentucky -- Old Joe Clark -- Cakewalk -- Wayfaring stranger -- I'm going back to old Kentucky -- McCoury blues -- Cherokee lady -- Down home waltz -- Blue grass special -- Miss Izzie -- Catnip -- Panhandle country -- One-legged man -- East Tennessee blues -- B natural -- No you stand back -- I wonder where you are tonight -- Disc 2. (57:12). Roanoke -- Cattle in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Acoustic Disc 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BLUSummary: Examines America's electoral process through the eyes of diverse politicians, activists, and voters in Ohio during the 2004 election. Shows how the voting public is manipulated by the parties' leaders and their political marketing strategies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SORush, Bobby.
Contents: I don't want nobody hanging around -- Porcupine meat (featuring Vasti Jackson) -- Got me accused -- Snake in the grass -- Funk o' de funk -- Me, myself and I (featuring Joe Bonamassa) -- Catfish stew -- It's your move (featuring Dave Alvin) -- Nighttime gardener (featuring Keb' Mo') -- I think your dress is too short -- Standing on shaky ground -- I'm tired (Tangle eye mix).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES RUSSummary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007