Darshan-Leitner, Nitsana
Summary: A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels. ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long the global war on terror overlooked financial warfare as an offensive strategy. "Harpoon," the creation of Mossad legend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.3 DARSummary: Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIE RATED PG-13Contents: Disc 1. Hey-hey-hey-hey (Little Richard) -- Shirley (John Fred & the Playboys) -- Would you believe it, I have a cold (Huey Smith) -- Telling lies (Fats Domino) -- Someday (you'll want me) (Smiley Lewis) -- Nervous boogie (Paul Gayten) -- It must be jelly (Frankie Ford) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Joe Jones) -- I'm so blue (Jimmy Beasley) -- I know (Ray Washington) -- Honey, honey (The Supremes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HEANitrada.
Contents: The only solution -- Everything is not alright -- We don't know why but we do it -- Fading away -- No. 4 -- Old love, new idea -- I fear: Good -- Like a souvenir -- Start today.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2nd Rec 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NitraNirvana
Contents: Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam -- Aneurysm -- Drain you -- School -- Floyd the barber -- Smells like teen spirit -- About a girl -- Polly -- Breed -- Sliver -- Love buzz -- Lithium -- Been a son -- Negative creep -- On a plain -- Blew -- Rape me -- Territorial pissings -- Endless, nameless.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2011
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NIRLeitner, Tamara
Summary: "In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims--more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 LEIKhiani, Darshana
Summary: Tired of being treated like a child, a young girl sets out to prove herself capable to her multi-generational Indian-American family, but an ill-fated attempt at putting on a sari has an unexpected outcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHILeisner, William.
Summary: After the Borg invasion rendered her home planet--Deneva--uninhabitable, Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury of the U.S.S. "Enterprise," wonders about the fate of her family, and works with Captain Picard to rescue the displaced people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIHeitner, Devorah
Summary: "The definitive book on helping kids navigate growing up in a world where nearly every moment of their lives can be shared and compared With social media and constant connection, the boundaries of privacy are stretched thin. Growing Up in Public shows parents how to help tweens and teens navigate boundaries, identity, privacy, and reputation in their digital world. We can track our kids' every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "A beautifully illustrated, thought-provoking picture book depicts the broad range of cultures in America, the values that bring us together as one people despite our differences, and the many ways we define what it means to be an American"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHILeiknes, Mark
Summary: The Quest Kids are ready for their first real quest. This time, they won't oversleep, they won't be put off by a little rain, and they won't accidentally burn down the village that hired them. All they have to do is find the Golden-Fleeced Rage Beast, shave it, and make a really nice golden tracksuit to appease a furious dragon. Simple, right? Meet the Quest Kids crew: Gil, a wizard (well,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEIFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Becoming a secret Robin Hood to her impoverished community, a nobleman's outspoken daughter endures a series of near misses before her reputation as both a hero and thief challenge the realities and perspectives of her followers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARKreitner, Richard
Summary: A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 KRESeidner, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 SEIZentner, Alexi.
Summary: A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENKreitner, Richard
Summary: From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 KREGeltner, Ted
Summary: "In 2010, Ted Geltner drove to Gainesville, Florida, to pay a visit to Harry Crews and ask the legendary author if he would be willing to be the subject of a literary biography. His health rapidly deteriorating, Crews told Geltner he was on board and would even sit for interviews and tell his stories one last time. "Ask me anything you want, bud," Crews said. "But you'd better do it quick." The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CREWS, HARRY GELHarrison, Da'Shaun
Summary: "An exploration of anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender identity, fatness, and health"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.38 HARZeidner, Lisa.
Summary: As Tess is about to get married in her childhood home in Haddonfield, New Jersey, an uninvited guest wearing a wedding dress and gas mask holds the ensemble hostage, triggering hilarious chaos among the unusual cast of characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZEIFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Sri Lankan fisherboy Razi and his sister are swept into a high-seas adventure when they meet Zheng, who has escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARAudio Letter
Contents: Neti-neti -- Sound is god -- Paracelsus paradigm -- Is this a bridge exactly? -- Liberation from Samsara -- Smoke and mirrors -- Fading green.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jivamukti 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN AUDDargan, Ash.
Contents: Ghost story -- Yirrakala -- Dinga (stone) -- Bora (initiation ceremony) -- Bullfrog -- Spirit song -- Narkindie (cave) -- Arinya -- Birubi (Southern Cross) -- Kaoota (evening dance) -- Yamanalee (digging song).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indigenous Australia 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC DARGillmeister, Heiner
Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998