Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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Summary: "A brilliant guide to the art of creating comics... in the format of a comic!"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 741.2 ILYWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLSchneider, Helga.
Summary: "Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8743 SCHHelyar, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HELTeiwes, Helga.
Contents: A glimpse of a Hopi woman's life -- Contemporary Hopi basket weaving techniques -- The forms and functions of Hopi basketry -- Coiled-basket weavers of Second Mesa -- Wicker-basket weavers of Third Mesa -- Tradition, ritual, and continuity -- Art form as social bond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.412 TEIWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: Alice Brill struggles to come to terms with the hidden truths of her life--her unrealized aspirations as a writer, her lackadaisical marriage, her troubled younger son, and her father, who is slipping into senility in a nursing home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOLYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANHollands, Hulda T. (Hulda Theodate)
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Flanagan company 1906
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 HOLHofmann, Helga
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 HOFYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANWolitzer, Hilma
Summary: "The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLWolitzer, Hilma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1988
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Summary: The lives of three very different women--Lissy Snyder, an insecure newlywed and unwilling stepmother; her nosey housecleaner, Michelle; and Angela Graves, the head of a local book group--intersect over the course of a summer in the Hamptons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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Summary: "This is the story of [Pete] Tarslaw's effort to write the best-sellingest best seller of all time, and what its success costs him in the end."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELBansch, Helga
Summary: "The animals are all asleep in their respective homes, until things get turned upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANParnell, Helga.
Summary: An introduction to the cooking of Germany featuring such traditional recipes as spaetzle, hot potato salad, Black Forest torte, and marzipan. Also includes information on the history, geography, customs and people of this European country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Company 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5943 PARWeiss, Helga
Summary: Helga's Diary is a young girl's remarkable first-hand account of life in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II. The drawings and paintings that Helga made during her time in Terezin, which accompany this diary, were published in 1998 in the book Draw What You See (Zeichne, was Du siehst).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALYMiron-Shatz, Talya
Summary: "Medicine used to be a paternalistic affair: a doctor's job was to make all the decisions, and a patient's job was to obey them. But technological, economic, and cultural changes over the last century have given us unprecedented control over our own healthcare. We have been turned into healthcare consumers, expected to work with doctors on complicated medical decisions. But just how capable are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 MIRMorley, Hilda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Asphoded Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MORSimon, Hilda.
Summary: Discusses the history and mythology of the snake, its evolution and anatomy, the habits and characteristics of a variety of the world's snakes, and how to keep snakes as pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1973
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Summary: A novel of the middle ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Academy 1989