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Alai Alda, Alan Alien. Alkan, Charles Henri Valentin Cohen, Alan Nesvetailova, Anastasia Wiesel, ElieWiesel, Elie
Summary: "Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history--from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.1 WIEAlai
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAAlkan, Charles Henri Valentin
Contents: Carnaval : from Les mois : op. 74 book 1 no. 2 (1:14) -- Petit conte : (1859) (3:32) -- Barcarolle : from Trente chants, op. 65 book 3 no. 6 (2:34) -- Gigue (from op. 24) (1:41) -- Promenade sur l'eau : from Les mois : op. 74 book 2 no. 3 (2:34) -- Cantique des cantiques : No. 13 of Preludes, op. 31 (2:07) -- Le tambour bat aux champs : op. 50, no. 2 (4:38) -- Esquisses, op. 63. DGelire : book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arabesque Recordings 1985
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SUISummary: A journey into the endless possibilities of life. Rich with positive, life-enhancing messages that focus on growth and change. Positive messages of self-esteem are illustrated through a series of live action and animations shorts through songs, stories and laughter. Explores children's dreams and concerns, as well as their fears and fantasies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FRESummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ALDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaNesvetailova, Anastasia
Summary: "The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial system, but a built-in feature. The president of the US is not a tax avoider because he is an especially fraudulent financier; he's a tax avoider because he is a wealthy man in a system premised on such deceit. Finance is an industry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 NESSummary: Presents a collection of stories by popular authors whose work inside and outside of the mystery genre has been influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATCohen, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help CohenSummary: A French pilot crashes his airplane in the middle of the Sahara Desert and comes upon a young blond prince from another planet. The little prince tells the pilot that he is inspecting the universe and stays in the desert long enough to convey to the pilot his impression of the earth and stories of other planets he has visited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family LittleSummary: Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonder 2017Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WON RATED PG-13Alda, Alan
Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDSummary: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMESummary: Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLEAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDSummary: The story encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress' infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when he tries to wash the blood from his hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA WOZSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienSummary: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011