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Catholics Fiction Christian converts from Judaism Fiction Concentration camp inmates Fiction France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples) 1898-1963 Mothers and daughters Fiction Nuns Fiction Women Europe Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Women FictionMochkofsky, Graciela
Summary: "The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Catholics to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILLANUEVA, SEGUNDO MOCKertzer, David I.
Summary: Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be heard across the city. With this terrifying scene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 KERSummary: The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEWHabib, Samaa.
Summary: "The thrilling and heart-wrenching true story of a former Muslim woman's journey to heaven and back when she was victim of a terrorist bombing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel HabibDobschiner, Johanna-Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. H. Revell Co. 1973
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 DOBNetanyahu, B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Chrysalis / Jeremy Kittel Trio -- Alpena / Jeremy Kittel Trio -- Wild / May Erlewine -- Closer to me / May Erlewine -- The road that lies ahead / Detour -- A better place / Detour -- Bonnie House of Airlie / traditional, arr. Fullset -- The Glen Road to Carrick / The Road to Edenderry / Fullset -- October / The Cranewives -- The moon will sing / The Cranewives -- Jerusalem Ridge / Moxie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glen Arbor Arts Center 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL MANMarx, Mandy R.
Summary: Betty the Yeti uses a kick drum to keep the beat at the school's winter concert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MARSummary: "Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Tennesee's Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain's acclaimed Mumford & Sons hopped on a beautiful vintage train and set out across America on a 'tour of dreams.' With poignancy and beauty, Malloy documents these incredible musicians as they ride the rails and wow the crowds from Oakland to New Orleans"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: S2BN Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIGLore, Pittacus.
Summary: In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC LORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LORNambi, Shoshana
Summary: "Sukkot is Shoshi's favorite Jewish holiday. She and her brothers love to decorate their sukkah, the hut where her family will celebrate. But who will win the Ugandan Abayudaya community's annual sukkah contest? While only one sukkah can be the best, everybody wins when neighbors work together."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalaniot Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAMHundley, Shelley E.
Contents: Why I became an atheist -- "Do something about this pain!" -- Seeing pain through a new lens -- Piercing the hardest heart -- Discovering the love of God -- We need a judge -- The judge fights for us -- The judge brings us comfort -- A beautiful exchange -- The power to forgive -- Turn back to God -- The hour of God's judgment -- A call to friendship with God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charisma House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 286 HUNTullet, Hervé
Summary: Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, a series of dots multiplies, grows, or changes color by pressing, tilting, or blowing on the previous page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The tale of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and is transported to a magical world of wonderful creatures and mystical adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALIMonir, Alexandra
Summary: "Jasmine thought that she had earned her happily ever after when she and Aladdin defeated Jafar. Then her beloved father dies and, overnight, all her plans for the future change. Instead of her wedding, she's now planning a funeral and a coronation--her coronation, to become the first woman to rule Agrabah. But before the sultan's crown is placed on her head, her claim to the throne is called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONSteel, Danielle.
Summary: A compelling tale of love and loss, set during World Wars I and II. At novel's beginning, it is 1915, and Beata Wittgenstein, daughter of a German banker, falls in love with Antoine de Vallerand, a French aristocrat. Because Antoine is Catholic, Beata's enraged father expels her from the family, proclaiming her dead. Beata moves to Switzerland, marries Antoine, converts to Catholicism, and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESummary: Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Jacobs, Alan
Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Kamenetz, Rodger
Contents: Sparks -- Flames -- Roadblocks -- Heights -- Blessings -- Contact -- The angel of Tibet and the angel of the Jews -- Always remind -- Debating monks and angels -- Shabbat Shalom and Tashe Delek -- Jewish Buddhists, Buddhist Jews -- JUBUs in America -- Tibetan intellectuals, Tibetan orphans -- An interview with the oracle -- Secret doors -- Tantra and Kabbalah -- Survival strategies -- One last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 KAMSteel, Danielle.
Summary: For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter, Beata, it was a time of awakening. By glimmering Lake Geneva, the Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Even though her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEWinner, Lauren F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALGON 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.246 WinWolf, Hubert.
Summary: A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282 WOLAfshar, Tessa
Summary: After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens, Ariadne runs away to her father's home in Corinth, only to discover the perilous secret that destroyed his marriage: though a Greek of high birth, Galenos is the infamous thief who has been robbing the city's corrupt of their ill-gotten gains. Desperate to keep him safe, Ariadne risks her good name, her freedom, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AFSEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: In The Triumph of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, a master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, shows how a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018