Steinberg, Avi
Summary: "A journalist's rollicking journey into the heart of the romance industry, and a heartfelt and hilarious memoir of restoring faith in romantic love. When his own romantic life was on the rocks, Avi Steinberg wondered if classical ideas about love still applied. As a compulsive reader, literary giants would be his guide; he went to Richardson and Austen, Tolstoy and Flaubert. But novels about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEINBERG, AVI STESummary: Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OFSummary: Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by award-winning director Elia Kazan. The emotionally charged film tells the story of lonely youth Cal, who vies for the affection of his hardened father and favored brother, Aron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray East 2013Steinbeck, John
Summary: "There is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than three decades after his death, he remains one of America's most beloved authors. Yet his nonfiction--the writings in which he spoke directly about his world--have long been overlooked. Now, in celebration of the centennial of his birth, this original collection brings together for the first time more than fifty of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 STEHatton, Lindsay
Summary: A novel set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the last days of Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" follows the 1940 arrival of fifteen-year-old artist Margot Fiske and her father, who embarks on a controversial project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HATSummary: In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OFMSteinbeck, John
Summary: ..."Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize -- winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -- now Volgograd -- but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.7 STELeBor, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.948 LEBSteinbeck, John
Summary: Steinbeck in Vietnam offers for the first time a complete collection of the dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by the military because of his reputation as a subversive, and reticent to document the war officially for the Johnson administration, Steinbeck saw in Newsday a unique opportunity to put his skills to use. Between December 1966 and May 1967, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 STESteinbeck, John
Summary: This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Annotation. In 1940, Steinbeck and his friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, ventured into the Gulf of California to search for marine invertebrates along the beaches. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.3164 SteinSteinbeck, John
Summary: Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel SteinbeckSummary: After her sister dies in childbirth, a young orthodox Jewish woman's family pressures her to marry her brother-in-law rather than entering into an arranged marriage with a man closer to her age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FILSouder, William
Summary: "A biography of one of America's most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck. This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEINBECK, JOHN SOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B STEINBECK SOUWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AISteinbeck, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 STEKrauss, Nicole
Summary: One of America's most important novelists (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRASteinberg, Myriam
Summary: "A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn't wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin the process of conceiving a child without a partner. With her family and friends to support her, she picked a sperm donor and was on her way. But Myriam's journey was far from straightforward. She experienced the soaring highs and devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.178 STESummary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrapesErickson, Carolly
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERISummary: Or, a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But her real full-time job is looking after her mother who has worked as a street prostitute for 20 years. The daughter must make a choice between taking care of her mother's bottomless needs or having an uncorrupted life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORAliu, Akim
Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALIMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Contents: Ave verum corpus, KV 618 (3:56) -- Exsultate, jubilate, KV 165 (14:24) -- Grosse Messe c-Moll KV 427 (417a) = Great mass in C minor (53:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991