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Bannister, Liz Chennault, Claire Lee 1893-1958 Counterfeiters Germany Drama Forced labor Germany History 20th century Drama Jewish men Germany Drama Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Drama Parent and adult child Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Drama World War, 1939-1945 Counterfeit money Germany Drama Wyeth, Andrew 1917-2009Steiner, Lynn M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MBI Pub. Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9517 STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9517 STESummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIM David M Steiner
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1941
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMStrong, Lynn Steger
Summary: "Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD--and now they're filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRK Gannon M Steiner
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIG RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGStrong, Lynn Steger
Summary: "For fans of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You, a gripping and heartfelt family portrait from an achingly precise new voice. Evoking finely wrought characters reminiscent of those by Claire Messud or Elizabeth Strout, debut author Lynn Steger Strong traces the anatomy of a mistake and the weight of culpability. When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRC Tobias M Steiner
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Advanced Music Corp. 1945
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMN Washington M Steiner
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.Witmark 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMStrong, Lynn Steger
Summary: "The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRStoner, Tammy Lynne
Summary: It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists. While his exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work. Through unprecedented access to family members, archival materials, and his work, this program presents the most complete portrait of the artist, bearing witness to a legacy just at the moment it is evolving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WYEStegner, Wallace Earle
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 STESummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN OKJKleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller)
Summary: "The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.04 KLESteinberg, Lewis M.
Summary: Humans have been fascinated by miraculous works since time immemorial. In the Hebrew Bible, they proved the power of an almighty God. In early Christianity, they were the mark of Jesus's divinity. In Islam, the Qur'an itself is considered a great miracle. Later, the Enlightenment and rationalism called miracles into question, but believers still wonder, "Could some miracles be real?" This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 202 STED Lyon M McIntire
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro Bernstein 1936
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILSummary: Alan Swann is a legendary movie idol forced by the IRS to face the music--deportation or a TV appearance to pay up. Benjy is in charge of making sure Swann shows up sober. You are taken behind the scenes during the early days of live variety shows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: In this candid look at our relationships with our mothers, fifteen authors write about subjects that they wish they had talked to their mothers about. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Topics vary widely: from growing up with a deaf mother, to seeking a conversation that won't be interrupted, to relationships affected by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.874 WHAContents: Address on U.S. neutrality (1941) / Charles Lindbergh -- Address to the Chicago Irish Fellowship Club (1954) / Senator Joseph McCarthy -- The Kitchen debate (1959) / Vice President Richard M. Nixon & Premier Nikita Khrushchev -- Farewell to fans (the payola scandal) (1959) / Alan Freed -- Concession speech (1962) / Richard M. Nixon -- On black power (1964) / Malcolm X -- Address to the Yippie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1991