Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOYKarmin, Aaron
Summary: "People who struggle with problem anger need quick tools they can use in the moment when faced with difficult situations or triggers. Instant Anger Management is a take-anywhere guide that provides effective and easy-to-learn strategies for dealing with anger on the spot. Using the quick cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions in this book, readers will also learn to better identify...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publication, Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It follows the story of Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in U.S. history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods. While the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn't in it for money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARTKaina
Contents: Anybody can be in love (2:58) -- It was a home (3:35) -- Good feeling / ft. Sen Morimoto (3:12) -- Sweetness (3:12) -- In my mind (3:09) -- Ultraviolet / ft. Sleater-Kinney (2:47) -- Come back as a flower (4:17) -- Blue / ft. Helado Negro (4:00) -- Casita (3:39) -- Apple (3:24) -- Friend of mine (4:19) -- Golden mirror (3:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAISteidinger, Joan
Summary: "This book explores three crucial areas in sport that remain huge concerns for women: leadership, money, and media. It examines topics such as the #MeToo movement, pay equity, and the experiences of women of color and LGBTQ athletes. Interviews with prominent female athletes are interwoven throughout to add personal perspectives to the conversation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.082 STESteidinger, Joan
Summary: "Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete tells the stories of all kinds of female athletes in a variety of sports. Their natural tendency to use talking as a primary form of communication is essential to their experiences and successes in sports. Women and girls tend to have BFFs, collaborate during periods of stress, express empathy for one another, worry about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 STEKatin, Miriam
Summary: "A stunning memoir of a mother and daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith. In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching, Katin and her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KATKazin, Michael
Summary: "A history of the Democratic Party from Andrew Jackson to Joe Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2736 KAZTuil, Karine.
Summary: "An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUIZarin, Jill.
Summary: A Jewish mother and her two daughters, including a radio host and one of the stars of "The Real Housewives of New York City," reveal their secrets to life, love, and happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 ZARAllyson, Karrin.
Contents: Moanin' -- Everybody's cryin' mercy -- Long as you're living -- The meaning of the blues -- My bluebird -- Hum drum blues -- How long has this been going on? -- West Coast blues -- Evil gal blues -- Blue motel room -- Bye bye country boy -- Love me like a man -- Angel eyes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Jazz 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ALLGerhardsen, Carin
Summary: "January in Gotland. The days are short, the air is cold, and all the roads are covered in snow. On a deserted, icy backroad, these wintery conditions will soon bring together a group of strangers with a force devastating enough to change their lives forever when, in the midst of a brief period, a deadly accident and two separate crimes leave victims in their wake. Four years later a single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet, an imprint of Penzler Publisher 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERKerin, Liz
Summary: "I'm always careful not to disturb mom. A rude awakening can definitely set her off, especially if she wakes up hungry. I can't forget what she is. What she could do to me." Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: tell no one of Izzy's hunger - the one only blood can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KERPolwart, Karine.
Contents: All on a Summer's Evening (4:17 min) -- The Moor Speaks (4:37 min) -- Lark in the Clear Air (2:57 min) -- Labouring and Resting (3:14 min) -- Tyrannic Man's Dominion (7:16 min) -- Place to Rest and Mend (3:41 min) -- A Benediction (3:53 min) -- Small Consolation (6:23 min) -- White Old Woman of the Night (2:52 min) -- Sphagnum Mass for a Dead Queen (4:47 min) -- Lullaby for a Lost Mother (1:39...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK POLHovannisian, Garin
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUKazin, Alfred
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MJF Books 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 KazinMahajan, Karan
Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHPolwart, Karine.
Contents: The Whole of the Moon(5:52 min) -- From Rags To Riches(4:19 min) -- Dignity(4:40 min) -- Since Yesterday(4:23 min) -- Swim Until You Can't See Land(4:50 min) -- Chance(4:15 min) -- The Mother We Share(3:14 min) -- Don't Want To Know(4:30 min) -- Whatever's Written In Your Heart(4:25 min) -- Machines(3:54 min) -- Women Of The World(4:35 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hegri Music 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POLPurvis, Karyn B. (Karyn Brand)
Summary: Offers parents practical advice on how to welcome an adopted child into their family, with tips for coping with common problems, building affection and trust, dealing with learning or behavioral disorders, and disciplining an adoptive child without harming the parent-child relationship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649.145 PurviCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 PURLeininger, Susan
Summary: "Children's book that shares the dilemma of going back to school in the Coronavirus environment. Silly ducks and goats navigate through both in-school and remote-learning experiences in a way that both children and parents can relate."--Amazon description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher unidentified] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BAI BASKETLeininger, Robert
Summary: For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing--vanished without a trace. Did they fly somewhere together? Take off with a big pile of money? Were they murdered? Their disappearances have finally made the national news. Mortimer Angel, a private-eye-in-training, is on the case....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Pub 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMKurin, Richard
Summary: A literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013