Summary: Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffereing from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna. After...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BORSummary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLZilkha, Avraham.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ZILAbraham
Summary: Presents the channeled spirit communications of "Abraham" on how to achieve balance in life and enjoy the journey with joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2006
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Summary: Looking back on the myriad of ways that the genre now known quite loosely as `bass music' has mutated, one of the key figures in its evolution would have to be Bristol's Rob Ellis, better known simply as Pinch. His fascination with what the outer limits of the dub sound can achieve, has made him a distinct figure within the fluid group of like-minded dubstep musicians that defined the so-called...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fabric 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PINSummary: Season 12 sees the Bartlett-Fleming clan dealing with day-to-day challenges and pursuing forgotten dreams. Their strength will be tested as they face personal struggles and must look to one another for guidance and support.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV He 12Pinch.
Contents: Entangled Particles (feat. Emika) -- All Man Got (feat. Trim) -- Accelerated Culture -- Returnity -- Making Space -- Party (feat. Killa P) -- Back To Beyond -- Change Is A Must (feat. Inezi) -- Non-Terrestrial Forms -- The Last One (feat. Nive Nielsen).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tectonic Records 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PINAbrahams, Kyria.
Summary: A stand-up comedian who was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness describes how her childhood was haunted by perpetual doomsday prophecies about an imminent apocalypse in which her non-believing neighbors and schoolmates were doomed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.9 ABRHirschi, Ron.
Summary: Baby animals spend the summer growing, playing, and learning from their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cobblehill Books 1991
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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV OGRKirchin, Basil.
Contents: Primitive London 1 -- Primitive London 2 -- Primitive London 3 -- Primitive London 4 -- Primitive London 5 -- Primitive London 6 -- The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 1) -- The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 2) -- The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 3) -- The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 4).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trunk 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PRIZarchi, Nurit
Summary: One day, a resolutely ordinary young man named Mr. Whatwilltheysay returns home to find Grain-of-Sand, a mermaid, waiting for him in his favorite armchair. Despite his objections, the two embark on a series of very watery adventures as he tries to get rid of her. But ultimately the thought of being seen with half a fish is simply too much for Mr. Whatwilltheysay to bear--what would people say?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yonder, Restless Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take on--and defeat--a ten-term incumbent to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Now a target for the right, she is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OCASIO-CORTEZ, ALEXANDRIAGRURicchi, Kia.
Summary: "You'll learn how to: Develop a concise and inclusive scope of work that details what, exactly, the contractor will do; research the contractor's license and insurance, as well as his or her construction history and personal background; recognize proposals and contracts that are one-sided or unfair."--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Centerline Production, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 692 RICHirschi, Ron.
Summary: Text and photographs explore a northern lake and its wildlife.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cobblehill Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HIRLustgarten, Abrahm.
Summary: Discusses how the CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne, helmed one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history only to have it fall apart due to deadly accidents and environmental crimes, culminating in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7382 LUSAbraham, Brad
Summary: ""Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection and mayhem. A must read for enthusiasts of edgy and extreme fiction." --Don Coscarelli, director of John Dies...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbraham, Daniel.
Summary: Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation and the priests of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the violence builds and the cracks in his rule begin to show, he will risk everything to gain her love or else her destruction. Clara Kalliam, the loyal traitor, is torn between the woman she once was...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABRAbraham, Philip
Summary: Relates the courage of John F. Kennedy during World War II, especially in saving his crew when they were stranded in the South Pacific after their PT boat was rammed by a Japanese warship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5459 ABRLincoln, Abraham
Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LINMaslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold)
Summary: "Maslow's theories of self-actualization and the hierarchy of human needs are the cornerstone of modern humanistic psychology, and no book so well epitomizes those ideas as this classic. Its influence continues to spread, more than a quarter century after its author's death, beyond psychology and throughout the humanities, social theory, and business management theory. Its enduring popularity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 1998
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Summary: Tyrant Geder Palliako, rogue banker Ban Cithrin bel Sarcour of the Medean, and disgraced widow and loyal traitor to the Empire Clara Kalliam continue the great war while, in the shadows of the world, Captain Marcus Wester tracks an ancient secret that will change the war in ways not even he can forsee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbraham, Gary.
Summary: Includes hockey rules, skills, equipment, safety, schools, rinds and organizations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.96 Abraham 2000Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 ABRAbraham, George
Summary: Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing. Birthright begs readers to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it knows now is all we are guaranteed. As trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020