Porter, Chana
Summary: "Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORPorter, Chana
Summary: "In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORStiefel, Chana
Summary: "The true story of how schoolchildren helped fund the construction of the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York City."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 STIStiefel, Chana
Summary: "The story begins with Yaffa Eliach, a spirited young girl who grows up in a vibrant, happy 800-year-old town in Poland, filled with family life and rich traditions. Yaffa's grandmother, who receives a gift of a camera from America, becomes the village photographer, and takes photos of all the family events: weddings, bar mitzvahs, and family gatherings. And on the Jewish New Year, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STIEwing, Chana Ginelle
Summary: "An ABC of equality introduces complicated concepts to the youngest of children, from celebrating our differences, understanding everyone's beliefs, and treating everyone with kindness."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2020
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE EWIEwing, Chana Ginelle
Summary: An ABC of equality introduces complicated concepts to the youngest of children, from celebrating our differences, understanding everyone's beliefs, and treating everyone with kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDSummary: A young woman is comes to a remote Chinese village to be a substitute teacher. Barely older than her students, the shy girl is charged with keeping the class intact for one month or she won't be paid. When one of her students disappears into the city to find work, the stubborn teacher is determined to follow the boy and bring him back to school. Once in the city, her simple peasant pleas fall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOTContents: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHESummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPCranes
Contents: Diorama -- Worlds -- Feathers -- Wires -- Panorama -- Wonderful things -- Collecting stones -- Invisible -- Move along -- Sleepwalking -- High and low
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mute Song Ltd. 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CRAContents: Sleepwalking / John Henry Memorial -- Times Two / Andrew Kaffer -- Marco Polo / Watery Graves of Portland -- I love a computer / Yacht Anarcortes Mixx -- Ramblin' / Little Wings -- Harbinger of toppling metropoli / Manta -- Spear for when the bear comes / Drakkar Sauna -- It's not the hunting / Mount Eerie -- Norm / Miss En Abyme -- Growing up / Thanksgiving -- As a metaphor / Or -- I will bend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marriage Records 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISCraig, Elena P.
Summary: "Go down the rabbit hole with Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the other beloved residents of Wonderland with this whimsical cookbook inspired by the animated classic Alice in Wonderland!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of 9 films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growing as above, so below, growing into your future and your past rather than forgetfully forward. These films deny the idea of art for art's sake and do not exist in self-designed aesthetic vacuums. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: Shares the story of the sisters and tennis stars, including their special relationship as sisters and best friends, their constant training as children, and their incredible success in professional tennis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CLISummary: It tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CODSummary: The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURSummary: Destination America looks at the driving forces that have compelled individuals to immigrate to America and, in particular, the immigration of women who have come to this country in search of opportunity and basic human rights denied them in their homelands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DESSummary: A schoolteacher learns that she was once a lethal assassin for the CIA, and teams up with a wise-cracking detective to uncover her past before a hi-tech army of corrupt government renegades kills them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Long 1997Selena, Elena
Summary: "Can you guess who? Who's hiding behind bright blue feathers? Who's covering their face with yellow wings, or a bushy orange tail? Little ones will delight in lifting the flaps to find out just who is playing peekaboo in this cheerfully illustrated boardbook"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSiegel, Siena Cherson
Summary: "Siena Cherson Siegel dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet.. Siena has worked hard her whole life to be a professional ballet dancer, then makes the difficult decision to quit dancing and tries to figure out what comes next. But what do you do when you have spent your entire life working toward a goal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021