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Grief Fiction Hallucinogenic drugs Therapeutic use Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Hungary Fiction Infants Death Fiction Jewish property Hungary Fiction Manic-depressive illness Married women Fiction Reminiscing in old age Fiction Stepfamilies Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions Hungary FictionWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: In an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, Ayelet Waldman undertook a very private experiment, ingesting 10 micrograms of LSD every three days for a month. This is the story--by turns revealing, courageous, fascinating and funny--of her quietly psychedelic spring, her quest to understand one of our most feared drugs, and her search for a really good day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALDMAN, AYELET WalWaldman, Ayelet
Summary: "A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. Whena small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALDMAN, AYELET WALWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved husband Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: When a woman lawyer's recent marriage is turned upside down by her preschool-age stepson, the situation is further complicated by the death of her newborn daughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: "In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca's family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John's blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.06 FIGSummary: A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017