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Jacobson, Howard.

Summary: Despite living opposite lives, old school pals Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler continue to stay in contact with each other as well as their old teacher, Libor Sevcik. One night, the trio gets together to relive the good times. But when the night comes to a shocking close for Julian, he begins to see things very differently.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAC

Jacobson, Howard

Summary: At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Jacobson, Howard

Summary: Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of “The Merchant of Venice,” Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Jacobson, Howard.

Summary: In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Campbell, T. Colin

Summary: "The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "Whole" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "Whole" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten offtrack and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 CAM

Campbell, T. Colin

Summary: Argues that low-carbohydrate diets are incorrect in their demonization of all carbohydrates and provides an optimal human diet for ideal weight, vibrant health, and longevity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2833 CAM

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