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Interpersonal relations Japan Japan Social life and customs 21st century Japon Mœurs et coutumes 21e siècle Loneliness Japan 21st century Morimoto, Shoji Psychologie sociale Japon 21e siècle Service social Japon 21e siècle Social psychology Japan 21st century Social service Japan 21st century Solitude Japon 21e siècleSummary: "In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce. Only rabbis can legitimate a marriage or its dissolution. But this dissolution is only possible with full consent from the husband, who in the end has more power than the judges. Viviane Amsalem has been applying for divorce for three years. But her husband Elisha will not agree. His cold intransigence, Viviane's determination to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GETSomi
Contents: First kiss : Eko oni baje -- Love juju #1 -- Lady revisited (featuring Angelique Kidjo) -- Ankara Sundays -- Ginger me slowly -- When rivers cry (featuring Common) -- Brown round things -- The story of Monkey -- Akobi : first born s(u)n -- Two dollar day -- Still your girl -- Four.One.Nine -- Love Nwantinti (featuring In His Image) -- Four African women -- Hearts & swag -- Love juju #2 -- Last...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: OKeh 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SOMItō, Shiori
Summary: "BLACK BOX is Shiori Ito's written account of her 2015 assault by a prominent Japanese reporter, the publication of which led to a societal reckoning around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence, and foregrounded Japan's #MeToo movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ITO, SHIORI ITOAnderson, Sulome
Summary: The author shares an intimate portrait of her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the effect of the surrounding political firestorm on both her family and the United States, sharing additional views about the role of the crisis in Middle East politics today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, SULOME ANDGoldman, Shalom.
Summary: Introduces the great myths of the ancient Near East, the region bound by Egypt and the Mediterranean in the west, Iran in the east, Anatolia in the north, and the Arabian peninsula in the south.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.3 GOL PT. 1 OF 2Ichikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Ignored while the other trees talk about how they will be dressed for Christmas, a small fir tree finds her dreams fulfilled on Christmas morning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE ICHGoldman, Shalom.
Summary: Introduces the great myths of the ancient Near East, the region bound by Egypt and the Mediterranean in the west, Iran in the east, Anatolia in the north, and the Arabian peninsula in the south.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.3 GOL PT 2 OF 2Shadmi, Koren
Summary: "A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his personal Twilight Zone. We recognize Rod Serling as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Television. Before he became the revered master of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SERAuslander, Shalom
Summary: Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: "Eat me." This is not unusual, as the Seltzers are Cannibal-Americans, a once proud and thriving ethnic group, but for Seventh, it raises some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSAuslander, Shalom.
Summary: Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Feeling neglected when Danny goes to sleep with his new stuffed animals rather than with him, Pangoo runs away to the zoo to live with the real-life penguins.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION IchikawaIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Pablito, a Guatemalan boy whose pet pig Amarillo has disappeared, uses a kite to send him a message that he still loves him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ICHSummary: The true story of Solomon Perel, born in Germany in 1925 of Polish-Jewish parents, who survives World War II by concealing his true identity and by living as a Nazi for seven years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EURBhattacharya, Shaoni
Summary: Details everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations, with every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, documented and explained.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BHAIchikawa, Satomi.
Summary: Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction GauchCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAUShadmi, Koren
Summary: "An examination of some of New York rock'n'roll's most iconic figures--The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol--and the relationship that distorted their lives and changed pop culture. Born from the iconic NY art and music scene of the late '60s and the brilliant, untamed minds of its founding members Lou Reed and John Cale, The Velvet Underground are now considered rock 'n' roll royalty...but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 SHAShadmi, Koren
Summary: "Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUGOSI, BELA SHAShadmi, Koren.
Summary: "Some people fall in love, get married, and thrive in happy relationships-- and then there are others. From Israeli enfant terrible Koren Shadmi comes a wickedly literate, darkly poetic, beautifully illustrated story collection that exposes with nightmarish clarity the sorrows of love and desire"--Cover p. [4].
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHASalami Rose Joe Louis
Contents: Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96) -- Dimensional collapse -- Always on my mind -- Fireflies -- Dimcola reprise -- Propaganda (feat. Brijean) -- Zee complex -- The giddy aquatic -- Sugar coating -- Proof is in the pudding -- Cathartic interlude -- Pushing me -- Gradients -- Losing steam -- Zaza Flip -- Exhaustion and the open mind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC SALMorimoto, Shoji
Summary: "Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: "Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Salami, L. A.
Contents: Going mad as the street bins -- & Bird -- No hallelujahs now -- Anything's greener than burnt grass -- I wear this because life is war! -- The city nowadays -- Papa Stokely (skit) -- I can't slow her down -- Loosely on my mind -- Why don't you help me? -- Day to day (for 6 days a week) -- Def(a)ormation days -- Aristotle ponders the sound -- My thoughts, they too will tire.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SALFurlong, Saloma Miller.
Summary: Overview: There are two ways to leave the Amish - one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong's father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a flood of memories. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1044 FURLONG, SALOMA MILLER FURSalami Rose Joe Louis
Contents: Suddenly -- Octagonal room -- She wakes up / First dimension -- Love the sun -- Cirrus floccus / Second dimension -- Cumulous potion (for the clouds to sing) -- Nostalgic montage -- Meet Zee in 3-D / Third dimension -- Confesions of the Metropolis spaceship -- A brief intermission -- Sitting with thoughts -- Earth creature -- Peculiar machine / Fourth dimension -- Drifting -- You get blue --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019