Manzoor, Sarfraz
Summary: As a teenager, Manzoor tried to reconcile being both British and Muslim. After his best friend introduced him to the music of Bruce Springsteen at age sixteen, he found a lens through which he could view his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANZOOR, SARFRAZ MANSummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALAdayfi, Mansoor
Summary: "The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gauntánamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gauntánamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAYFI, MANSOOR ADAMangor, Jodie
Summary: Imagine being able to taste or hear with your feet, or feel your way through the dark with your nose! Like humans, animals interact with the world through their senses. Unlike humans, many animals use their senses in truly unique ways to communicate, reproduce, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 573.87 MANSafran, Joshua.
Summary: Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAFRAN, JOSHUA SAFSafran, John.
Summary: "An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came to light. Maybe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Hardcover 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 SAFFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe in it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act, to make sacrifices now to prevent calamity in the future. How are we, ordinary civilians, supposed to do anything about a crisis for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.73 FOEFoer, Esther Safran
Summary: "Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOER, ESTHER SAFRAN FOEFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits--from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth--and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 FOEFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Foer dissects our dietary choices in an intriguing look at why we eat the things we do.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 641.3 FOEPortman, Natalie
Summary: Exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources ranging from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EATSummary: Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker Bob Weide, who set out to document it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers a new translation of the text of prayer and song used by Jewish familes each year to celebrate Passover and the story of Exodus, augmented by commentary by a number of modern-day thinkers, including Michael Pollan, Tony Kushner, and Judith Shulevitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2012