Summary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONKrasznahorkai, László
Summary: "Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casinodebts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A New Directions Book 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRANecks
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NECDemen
Contents: Niorum -- Morgon -- Korridorer -- Illdrop -- Mea -- Ambur -- Flor
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEMSummary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Charles and Ray Eames are American designers of the 20th century, best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts. They were also prolific filmmakers. The legacy of the husband and wife team includes more than 100 short films that reflect the breadth and depth of interests and the integrity of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Nemens, Emily
Summary: Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nemens 2020Neves, Liz
Summary: In Northeast Medicinal Plants, herbalist Liz Neves is the reader's trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 111 of the region’s most powerful wild plants. Readers will learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.634 NEVSummary: The Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARNeves, Antaonio
Summary: "A raw and inspiring how-to guide that will help you recommit to your life, find your drive, and take action to stay bold, honest, and accountable for lasting happiness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 NEVRemes, Olivia
Summary: From leading mental health expert Dr. Olivia Remes, this essential companion for navigating life's challenges offers everyday techniques and exercises to overcome setbacks and even achieve positive change. Whether you're dealing with job uncertainty, ill health, relationship problems, financial or mental health struggles, or the loss of a loved one, this highly practical and compassionate book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Christy's best friend dies of typhoid before they've had a chance to patch up a disagreement, Christy angrily questions her faith as she tries to reconcile her beliefs with the tragedy of a young, loving mother being taken away from her family and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHRSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: CD 1. Independent Jamaica (Lord Creator) -- Blow Roland blow (Joanne Gordon & Roland Alphonso) -- Malcolm X (The Skatalites) -- Mouth a massy (Alton Ellis) -- Take it easy (Hopeton Lewis) -- Ba ba boom (The Jamaicans) -- Such is life (Lord Creator) -- I love the reggay (The Gaylads) -- Love of the common people (Nicky Thomas) -- Cherry oh baby (Eric Donaldson) -- Java (Augustus Pablo) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: VP Music Group Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE OUTFake Names (Musical group)
Contents: Targets -- Expendables -- Delete myself -- Go -- Don't blame yourself -- Can't take it -- Damage done -- Madtown -- Caught in between -- Too little too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FAKFoster, Linda Nemec
Summary: The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a new tale that feels familiar. The breeze off the lake, the sand underfoot, the supreme sadness of being young and not in control-these sensations come rushing back page-by-page, bringing to life an ancient myth of coming of age in a troubled world. Freed from the minds of Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen, the Lake Michigan mermaid serves as a voice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 FOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry FosterBock, Laszlo.
Summary: ""We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 BOCLaszlo, Ervin
Summary: ""By opening this Handbook for wise thinking and living, you open the door to your new identity, because across the threshold there is only the lightness of Being, and infinity in all directions."-Deepak Chopra In The Wisdom Principles, Dr. Ervin Laszlo,authority in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, bridges the chasm between our understanding of science and the truths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 LASLaszlo, Ervin
Contents: The amazing coherence of (nearly) everything -- The rediscovery of the Akashic field -- the big questions -- The existential questions -- The integral vision of reality -- A roundtable of leading thinkers -- The furrows of reality--scientific and spiritual implications of the reenchanted cosmos -- From a mechanistic and competitive to a reenchanted and co-evolving cosmos -- the metaverse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Noles, James L.
Contents: The baby flattops -- Crew for the "Listing Lizzie" -- Wildcats, avengers, and a rear admiral -- Into the breach -- Galvanic and Kourbash -- Three task forces, three brothers -- "The god of death has come" -- Twenty-three minutes and counting -- Abandon ship! -- Pacific dawn -- Surviving -- Aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Alabama Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 NOLBeres, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Medallion Press 2005