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Summary: Brings together a collection of poems, recipes, personal reminiscences, and an insightful new interpretation of the rituals and symbols of the seder in a guide to creating a meaningful Passover for the entire family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.4 PIEPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEBierce, Ambrose
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423 BIEBierce, Ambrose
Summary: A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEPreece, Rob.
Contents: The awakening warrior -- Bodhichitta -- The cultivation of bodhichitta -- Preparing the ground -- Equanimity -- Finding the capacity to care -- Remembering their kindness -- Repaying their kindness -- Exchanging self with others -- The practice of tonglen -- The supreme wish -- The awakening mind -- The paradox of awakening -- Our place in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Snow Lion Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 PREFieri, Guy.
Summary: Guy Fieri strikes again, giving you a road map to road food that's earned its culinary citizenship in "Flavortown." Join Guy on a cross-country noshing parade, mapping out the best places you've never heard of--more than fifty establishments off the beaten path. Filled with Guy's hilarious voice and rampant enthusiasm for these hidden culinary gems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/Harper Collins 2009
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Summary: First published in 1944, Enemy Coast Ahead quickly became regarded as the classic Bomber Command book, following Gibson's RAF career from flying the Hampden and Manchester at the beginning of World War II to the triumphant return home of the Lancasters from the famous 1943 Dambuster raid, which Gibson led and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Enemy Coast Ahead is also the inside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.544 GIBLeschziner, Guy
Summary: Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep-- and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations frighten people into paralysis. Restless legs rock both the sleepless and their sleeping partners with unpredictable and uncontrollable kicking. Out-of-sync circadian rhythms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 LESPierce, Don.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 PIEGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPGur, Mordechai
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Publisher / Publication Date: ibooks 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.046 GURPierce, Kerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Popular Woodworking Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.08 PIEPierce, Val
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 PIEGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.162 GUPGur, Janna.
Summary: The author of the acclaimed The Book of New Israeli Food returns with a cookbook devoted to the culinary masterpieces of Jewish grandmothers from Minsk to Marrakesh: recipes that have traveled across continents and cultural borders and are now brought to life for a new generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.567 GURKeith, Lierre.
Summary: The author describes how, after twenty years as a vegan, she came to the realization that a plant-based diet is not environmentally friendly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashpoint Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 KEIPiercy, Marge
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Crest, c1976. 1986
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Summary: Poems on a Jewish theme. In Eat Fruit, she writes: "Custom agents throw open my suitcase and draw / out with gingerly leer from under my negligee / a melon. Drug smugglers feed their self-importance, / but me they hate along with the guy trying to smuggle / in a salami from the old country his uncle gave him."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leapfrog Press 2001
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Summary: Poetry about everyday things. One poem is on the ubiquitous answering machine which "addresses you as a retarded dog," another is on women who allow themselves to be "retooled, refitted and redesigned for every decade," a third is on motorists who kill animals and do not even bother to look.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEGup, Ted.
Summary: During the Great Depression, the impoverished residents of Canton, Ohio were offered ten dollars to pen their tales of woe. Seventy-five years later, author Ted Gup came across these moving stories and made it his goal to chronicle the families' subsequent generations. Here, Gup's sweeping narratives embody the struggles faced by the quintessential American family over the last several decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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Summary: "This guide explores one of the great traditions of Western painting: alla prima, or direct, painting. Bold brushwork and a painterly surface are the hallmarks of this renowned technique, and one of the great masters of alla prima was Arthur DeCosta, the legendary Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts teacher." "In Alla Prima, author Al Gury reveals the step-by-step lessons he learned in his years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Pub. 2008