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British literature History and criticism California Berkeley Coming of age English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 Irish literature History and criticism Literature, Medieval Radicalism United States History 20th century United States United States History 1961-1969 United States Social conditions 1960-1980Hsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSURuiz-Grossman, Sarah
Summary: "With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices growing beneath the city's surface. As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: Film of a live concert at The Berkeley Community Center on Memorial Day, 1970. Concert footage is intercut with scenes from riots in Berkeley earlier in the month in the wake of the Kent State shootings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Experience Hendrix 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JIMWolff, Michael
Summary: "From Tourette's to triumph. From cancer to cure. From the segregated south to commanding stages around the world. Jazz master, Michael Wolff's journey begins with pure grit and ends in perfect victory. On that note is more than a memoir. It is like a jazz score with words, taking the reader on the wild journey of Wolff's singular life, on edriven by a passion for music and for being alive....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WolffTichenor, Liz
Summary: "In less than a year and a half, Liz's mother killed herself and her infant son died unexpectedly. In between these two deaths, Liz was ordained as an Episcopal priest. The Night Lake is the story of finding a way forward through the kind of tragedy that seems like it might be beyond surviving, and trying to do so while holding down a job that's all about leading a community in hope. It's the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TICHENOR, LIZ TICKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: When California state representative Davida Grayson is murder detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel her complex life to catch the murder. In Nashville detectives Baker Southerby and Lamar Van Gundy must find out who slashed the throat of Jack Jeffries, rock legend, who had just come out of retirement to do a benefit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KelRobinson, Cynthia
Summary: Max Bravo, a wise-cracking gay opera singer, and his best friend, advertising whiz Claudia Fantini, enjoy hanging out with their fellow dog friends at the local Berkeley, California, dog park. But when one of their friends--pregnant Amy Carter--disappears, Max and his visiting German boyfriend stake out Amy's house because they suspect her husband has killed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ROBSummary: In this documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, learn the amazing true story of "The Father of the Atomic Bomb." J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 - Died on February 18, 1967, A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and best known for creating the Atomic Bomb, during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD OPPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: A scholarly program that reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late-14th-century England. Period art of exceptional richness is combined with location photography that retraces the April pilgrimage to Archbishop Becket's shrine at Canterbury; excerpts are read from various tales; and the famous beginning is heard in Middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Gitlin, Todd.
Summary: "Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade-- a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. Part critical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993