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Berenstain Bears (Fictitious characters) Drama Berenstain Bears (Fictitious characters) Juvenile films Berenstain, Jan 1923-2012 Television adaptations Berenstain, Stan 1923-2005 Television adaptations Board books Conduct of life Drama Conduct of life Juvenile films Fantasy Idea (Philosophy) Fiction Immortality FictionSummary: "On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople-- suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning-- expect the worst and behave accordingly."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NINHorn, Dara
Summary: Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, struggles with difficult moral questions when he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who has been plotting an assassination attempt against President Lincoln.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHorn, Dara
Summary: Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die. "What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can`t die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business, an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHorn, Dara
Summary: While consulting at an Egyptian library, software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi is kidnapped and her talent for preserving memories becomes her only means of escape as the power of her ingenious work is revealed, while jealous sister Judith takes over Josie's life at home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARGoldman, Dara
Summary: Boris and Stella are in love but do not have much money, so Stella sells something very important to her in order to buy Boris a Hanukkah gift, and Boris does likewise to buy Stella a Christmas present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E GOLHorn, Dara
Summary: Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years-ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORHorn, Dara
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORDuras, Marguerite.
Summary: The story of an affair between a fifteen-year-old French girl and her Chinese lover, set in prewar Indochina.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURFagan, Deva
Summary: After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGNovey, Idra
Summary: "On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVDaré, Abi
Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC DAREAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZDorf, Fran.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORFishbein, Dena.
Summary: A mother and child share happy times reading books, taking naps, and playing together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Fishbein 2011Fagan, Deva
Summary: Apprentice wizards Antonia and Moppe must set aside their rivalry and unite their opposing skill sets to save Master Betrys, their island nation, and themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum, Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGLuchsinger, Dena.
Summary: While being smart and strong are useful traits, loving other people just because God made them is always good.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE Set Spanish Luchsinger 2007Cera, Michael
Summary: Brother and Sister both sign up to try out for the BearCountry Cardinals baseball team and practice together, despite there being only one position left on the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERDavis, Kyra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVWallander, Disa
Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALSummary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACNovey, Idra
Summary: "From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCera, Michael
Summary: The Berenstain Bears go to the beach and the cubs learn an important lesson about family cooperation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films (usa) Llc 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv BeNovey, Idra
Summary: When Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda suddenly disappears, her American translator Emma travels to Brazil to solve the mystery while fending off rapacious loan sharks and the washed-up editor who made Yagoda famous.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016