Oppenheimer, Mark
Summary: "Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multi-generational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshiping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 OPPValentine, Sarah
Summary: "The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VALENTINE, SARAH VALSummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITMarney, Ellie
Summary: Travis Bell and Emma Lewis reunite to help the FBI capture a serial killer in Pittsburgh, and they must again turn to a notorious teenage sociopath and his twin sister for help finding the murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARCanin, Ethan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANVercher, John
Summary: "Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERSummary: Following the lives of five gay men in Pittsburgh, 'Queer as Folk' is a riveting drama full of sex, drugs, adventure, friendship and love. Although the creators of 'Queer as Folk' wanted to present an honest depiction of gay life, it is by no means a comprehensive depiction. In addition to the usual sexual escapades and relationships of the five friends, the show explores critical gay political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUEThomas, Clarke M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.886 ThomaAndrews, Jesse.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDGeorge, Kathleen
Summary: In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims---a polite woman and an angelic child---do not seem to be connected in any obvious way. Christie is short-handed, the clues don't stack up, and he's got a rookie detective, Colleen Greer, to look out for. These are his problems. Colleen has problems,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOKlugh, Henry E
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry E. Klugh 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLULippincott, Rachael
Summary: Alex Blackwood es realmente bueno para conseguir a la chica que quiere, pero al provenir de un hogar roto con una madre alcohólica, le resulta difícil comprometerse, incluso cuando cree que está enamorada. La increíblemente incómoda Molly Parker está enamorada de la genial Cora Myers, pero ni siquiera sabe cómo iniciar una conversación, y mucho menos establecer una conexión. Juntos en la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nube de Tinta 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH LIPMcCafferty, Jane.
Summary: Depicts the unraveling relationship between husband and wife Evie and Ben as one tries to live a free, alternative lifestyle, while the other becomes content to wear a suit and tie to an office job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCHazzard, Kevin
Summary: "Up until 1968, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. That all changed with the Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's first paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency medicine around the world, only to have their legacy erased-until now. Born from the vision of a Nobel Prize-nominated physician, the needs of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of essays by regional journalists, academics, and religious and community leaders commemorates the October 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue while describing how neighbors are working together to heal and help preventfuture tragedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BOUChabon, Michael.
Summary: Now reissued, Michael Chabon's "New York Times" bestselling first novel is a funny, tender coming-of-age novel that introduces readers to Art Bechstein, a Holden Caulfield for the post-Boomer/pre-Gen X-er generation. Chabon's first novel was universally lauded as the arrival of a rare and remarkable new literary talent who has proved to be one of our most profound and original writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAMartin, Nancy
Summary: Roxy Abruzzo is working in the architectural-salvage business, salvaging items from the burned out remains of Julius Hyde's home when she spies a statue in the yard. Roxy removes the statue from the property without anyone's knowledge or consent. It probably wouldn't have become a huge issue except for the fact that Julius Hyde ends up murdered and suddenly everyone's on the trail of Hyde's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MARLeavitt, Caroline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEASummary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUAHandler, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANIreland, Justina
Summary: Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021