Summary: This film explores the 20-year relationship between two families, one Israeli and one Palestinian. Danae Elon last saw her childhood caregiver in 1991, and she seeks here to discover what happened to Musa, the Palestinian who helped raise her from her infancy until she joined the Israeli army. Her quest takes her to Paterson, NJ, where he had sent his own children to school, and she finds...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GeoQuest Entertainment Group, Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ANONaeem
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP NAEMaker
Contents: Say I won't -- Sangria -- New Jack shake -- Monument -- Fly high -- What a day -- Sleepy eyes -- The elevens -- Baby -- Look of love, pt. 1 -- Look of love, pt. 2 -- Africumbia -- Things cannot stop forever remix -- Sundancer -- Body bash -- Break bread -- Drop dead -- The backroads -- Sleep walk.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKMaker
Contents: A new breed -- King fortune -- Stones -- Aquatic -- Good woman -- Savage fuzz-- Kush -- Love is moving -- Gangster world -- Life lesson -- Burning on -- Dead or alive -- Survivor -- Mercy -- Circle of success -- Hot box
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKSager, Carole Bayer.
Summary: "In this memoir, Carole Bayer Sager tells the surprisingly frank and darkly humorous story of a woman whose sometimes crippling fears and devastating relationships inspired many of the songs she would ultimately write. She gives a deeply personal account of how love and heartbreak made her the woman, and the writer, she is"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SAGER, CAROLE BAYER SAGNaber, Therese
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the California area, including the Hupa, Yurok, Pomo, Pit River, Miwok, Yokuts, Chumash, Cahuilla, and Luiseno nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, detailed maps, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 NABNader, Ralph
Summary: "A scathing wake-up call derailing the many ways that wealth manipulates American politics, labor, media, environment and the quality of national life today. By telling the success stories of average Americans, the iconic consumer advocate and big-business anti-hero makes the case about how the nation can--and must--be managed by communities, not corporations. Nader at his best--indignant and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Publishers 2016
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Summary: The author provides an account of her experiences after being kidnapped from her Nuba village in 1993 by Arab raiders when she was twelve years old and sold into slavery, and discusses how she was able to gain her freedom seven years later while living and working for her master's sister in London.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 NAZNager, Marc
Summary: "Tested principles for transforming an idea into a fully operational company. Startup Weekend--the organization behind 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups--has spawned both a global initiative in entrepreneurship as well as numerous successful startups. Startup Weekend, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1 NAGMaker
Contents: Walk away son -- Shout -- The love we have -- Everyone else -- Realization -- Happenings -- Everything is beautiful -- The fire that burns -- Hold 'em -- Organ prelude dub -- Colors -- Summer times -- Free -- Southside phantom -- Forge your own chains -- Come home with me -- Sneak into my bedroom -- Snake bite -- Summer times prt 2 -- Ashtray.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKNader, Ralph
Summary: "The great elder statesman of consumer rights shows how previous administrations allowed unchecked corporate power to lead us to the criminality of Trump. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations--both Republican and Democratic--that have led us to this precipice. Writing as a Washington, D.C. activist and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 NADNaber, Therese
Summary: From the scorching dunes of the Sahara Desert to the crushing depths of the Mariana Trench, our world contains many inhospitable landscapes. The Science of Survival explores the amazing adaptations animals and humans have developed in order to survive in some of the harshest circumstances on Earth and beyond. Easy-to-read text and vivid images bring this subject to life. Features include a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 578.4 NABNaber, Therese
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the southeastern United States, including the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Siminole, Catawba, and Chitimacha nations, as well as the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975 NABSummary: Surveys the history, usage, and etiquette of the American flag. Includes a sing-a-long of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the "Pledge of Allegiance".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Schlessinger Video Productions 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD J929.9 UNINapier, Erin
Summary: "From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy, is within our grasp. Long before their hugely popular TV show, an expanding family, or demolition day on their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NAPNader, Ralph
Summary: One of corporate America's greatest enemies profiles twelve CEOs, including The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Vanguard's John Bogle, whom he believes performed extraordinarily well as business leaders and civic reformers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 338.092 NADNader, Ralph
Summary: "In letters addressed to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, Ralph Nader provides incisive critiques of more than a decade of American policy decision and indecision. Each letter offers frank advice and shines light on government mishaps and missed opportunities for progress. With his signature dry wit, Nader holds these presidents to their campaign promises. He also boldly points to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 NADNader, Ralph.
Summary: Surveying the state of American society and the economy, offers solutions for saving the country, including cracking down on corporate crime, rebooting civic education, and innovating new programs to create job growth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 NADNader, Ralph.
Summary: "Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations on our society. At this pivotal political moment, Americans are more disillusioned with their political leaders than ever. Large majorities tell pollsters that big corporations have too much political power. The ever tightening influence of big business on the mainstream...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.3 NADSummary: Elia Suleiman's critically-acclaimed satire chronicles the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVAkçam, Taner
Contents: The Ottoman state and its non-Muslim populations -- The Union and progress era -- Turkish nationalism -- What led to the decision for genocide? -- The decision and its aftermath -- The question of punishing the "Turk" -- Ottoman government initiatives -- The Turkish national movement's position on the genocide -- The final phase of the trials -- Why the postwar trials failed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 AKCFader, Molly.
Summary: Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FADKacer, Kathy
Summary: Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany. Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery of her parentage. What she encounters is a country still...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC KACMazer, Harry.
Summary: While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2001