Summary: When aging gangster Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars, Lansky spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LANTynan.
Summary: "Life nomadic is equal parts inspirationation and practical advice for anyone who has ever dreamed of traveling the world. Learn how to take luxury cruises for less than thirty dollars a day, buy flights for as little as twenty dollars, and book hotels for not much more. Besides traveling cheaply, you'll also discover how to get the most out of your travels by packing light, living like a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Tynan] 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 TYNEdan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDAEyman, Scott
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story of one of the most legendary and influential studios in film history, from its inception up to its demise in 2019"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384 EYMSummary: Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVIEitan, Maayan
Summary: "An incendiary and stylish debut from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan's debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, riding in cars, seeing clients, meeting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EITEyman, Scott
Summary: "A revelatory biography of the enduringly popular John Wayne that draws on more than 100 interviews as well as exclusive access to the files of Wayne's film production company to answer the question why he became and remains an iconic American figure"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAYNE, JOHN EYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain WayneBoritzer, Etan
Summary: For children, an exploration of major world religions, people's yearnings for understanding of God and how people's need for each other can be met through faith and trust in each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 291.211 BORHersh, Eitan
Summary: "Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes) and occasionally sign a petition or attend a rally. But we mainly "engage" by consuming politics as if it's a sport or a hobby. We soak in daily political gossip and eat up statistics about who's up and who's down. We tweet and post and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, INC. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.042 HERBrockway, Connie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROEyman, Scott
Summary: In the aftermath of World War Two, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE EYMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHAPLIN EYMThomas, Etan
Summary: "This volume will be an inspiration for many different people: sports junkies; young readers who need words of encouragement from their favorite athletes; parents seeking positive messages for their children; activists who want to hear athletes using their voices to address social justice; and schools that need motivational material for their students. Featuring interviews by former NBA player...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 THOEdan.
Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EdanEyman, Scott
Summary: "Scott Eyman, author of the New York Times bestseller JOHN WAYNE: The Life and Legend, has written an incisive, definitive biography of another great Hollywood legend, Cary Grant, drawing in part on new research into Grant's all-important early years, which permanently shaped his life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, CARY EYMEyman, Scott
Summary: Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. Between them they made such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 EYMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain EymanEyman, Scott
Summary: Follows the legendary John Ford through a career that spanned more than five decades, drawing on dozens of personal interviews, material from Ford's estate, and film criticism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, JOHN EYMBrockway, Connie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Books/Dell 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrockway, Connie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBrockway, Robert
Summary: "There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us: they watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns and remove the redundancies, and the problem that is 'you' gets solved. Carey doesn't much like that idea. As a punk living in New York City, 1977, Carey is sick and tired...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: A discussion between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and psychologist Paul Ekman on the differences between Eastern and Western views on human emotions and the connections that exist between science and spirituality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 EMOSummary: "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUSummary: In the dead of night, a group of men - among them, a police commissioner, a prosecuter, a doctor and a murder suspect - drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of the cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONCBrockway, Connie.
Summary: "Wealthy, orphaned Lady Lydia Eastlake reigns over Regency England as the ton's most celebrated beauty. But she must face losing the only life she's ever known when her fortune suddenly disappears-and the only solution is to find a wealthy husband. Enter Captain Ned Lockton, a rich and dashing war hero who sends Lydia's pulse racing. Little does she know that the enigmatic captain's family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Onyx 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrockway, Connie.
Summary: Archeologist Genisse Braxton vows to find the lost city of Zerzura. But on her way to Egypt, Genisse engages in a daring deception. She will switch places with Mildred Whimpelhall, who is traveling to meet her fiancé. Cynical adventurer Jim Owen will do anything to escape the dark secrets of his troubled past. Betrayed by the woman he loved, scorned by proper society, he agrees to carry out a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011