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Brothers and sisters Fiction Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Feature films Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Physicists Political prisoners Fiction Saint Petersburg (Russia) History 20th century Fiction Siberia (Russia) History 20th century Fiction Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Fiction Voyages and travels FictionSummary: Delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. Follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny. Shows the future conqueror and revealing him not as the evil brute, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MONSummary: A young dreamer whose blind father runs the bathhouse has convinced his father that the bathhouse is filled with customers. His brother is a ruthless industrialist who wants to destroy the building and erect a futuristic city in its place. But that struggle is soon replaced by the movie's dominant storyline, Anton's falling in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl. Aside from a few random...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TUVSummary: Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOOSummary: With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a goose-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where, beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Part Science-fiction, mystery, and dark comedy, this Cannes Film Festival entry is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETKhalab.
Contents: Father And Grandpa (feat. Gabin Dabire) -- Black Noise (feat. Tenesha The Wordsmith) -- Dense (feat. Shabaka Hutchings and Tommaso Cappellato) -- Chitita -- Yaka Muziek -- Bafia (feat. Tamar Osborn) -- Zaire -- Shouts (feat. Prince Buju) -- Cannavaro (feat. Clap! Clap!) -- Dawn (feat. Moses Boyd).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: On The Corner 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KHAKulfan, Ted
Summary: An unflinching look at the greatest--and the worst--players, coaches, and moments in Detroit Red Wings history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 KULKruzan, Sara
Summary: "At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRUZAN, SARA KRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KRUZAN KRUShuman, Michael.
Summary: "Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the devastating impact of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SHUDavis, Thulani.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVShuman, Michael.
Summary: Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart; Michael Shuman begs to differ. In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.642 SHUPhelan, James.
Summary: It's 2005, and Walker has just entered the CIA. After a distinguished ten-years within Air Force special ops, he's re-upped to avoid a desk job. But his first job will move the front line far closer to home - his first mission is stateside. New Orleans, pre Katrina. Walker is sent on a mission by Harold Richter, CIA field operations legend and trainer of agents provocateur. The task he sends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHEShulman, Mark
Summary: By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand--and measure--space and time. At first his ideas were ridiculed, but soon they were idolized. Prior to World War II, Einstein was a celebrated figure in Germany, but when the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s, he fled for his life and eventually settled in the United States. [This book] recounts the life of the world's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINShulman, Polly.
Summary: Elizabeth has a new job at an unusual library— a lending library of objects, not books. In a secret room in the basement lies the Grimm Collection. That's where the librarians lock away powerful items straight out of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales: seven-league boots, a table that produces a feast at the blink of an eye, Snow White's stepmother's sinister mirror that talks in riddles. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2010
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Shuman, Carol.
Summary: When Jenny and her brother are frightened by events in the world, their parents help them talk about their fears and feel better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket SHUHulin, Rachel
Summary: "A brilliant, hilarious, endlessly inventive debut, Hey Harry, Hey Matilda is the story--told entirely in emails--of fraternal twins Harry and Matilda Goodman as they fumble into adulthood, telling lies and keeping secrets, and finally confronting their complicated twin-ship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HULKalan, Robert.
Summary: A hermit crab looking for a new home tries several different shells before finding one that fits just right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GRNWI 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KALShulman, Mark
Summary: A graphic-novel biography of legendary animator Walt Disney illustrates key moments in his life, from his early drawings as a teen and his bold decision to produce the world's first full-length animated film to the development of iconic characters and his creation of Disneyland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DISShulman, Jason.
Contents: Leaving the limited -- Living between the light and dark : the holy ego -- Healing, briah, and the concept of not-making -- The healing of immanence and the nature of God -- Within death -- Prayer : the concrete path -- The words of God -- It starts with a disappointment-- and it ends in light -- About A Society of Souls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.712 SHUShulman, Mark
Summary: "With the next presidential election upon us, this witty, nonpartisan book will help explain the concept of voting to the youngest readers." - Publisher annotation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 SHUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 SHUShulman, Robin.
Summary: Traces the experiences of New Yorkers who grow and produce food in bustling city environments, placing urban food production in a context of hundreds of years of history to explain the changing abilities of cities to feed people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 SHUHuman Highway.
Contents: Sound -- All day -- Get lost -- What world -- Sleep talking -- Moody motorcycle -- My beach -- Ode to abner -- Pretty hair -- Vision failing -- Duties of a lighthouse keeper -- I wish I knew.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Suicide Squeeze 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HUMEhrbar, Greg
Summary: The Huns have crossed the Great Wall. Their leader, Shan-Yu, seems unstoppable. Only a hero can change the course of events and prevent China from being conquered. That hero will be found in the most unexpected place, in an unlikely guise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISPhelan, Matt
Summary: The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016