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Summary: "Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHWARTZ SCHSchwarcz, Luiz
Summary: "A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Láios-"Luiz" in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWARCZ, LUIZ SCHSchwalbe, Will
Summary: "For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world, with all its noise and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWALBE, WILL SCHSchwalbe, Will
Summary: "For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world, with all its noise and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SCHWALBE, WILL SchSummary: A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHISchwalbe, Will
Summary: "From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club-a new book that tracks an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years. Author Will Schwalbe describes his friendship with unlikely college-buddy Maxey through marriage, divorce, and career changes up until the present day, noting what makes their bond so special and enduring"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWALBE, WILL SCHSchwartz, Morris S.
Summary: "From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SCHAlbom, Mitch
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.12 ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.12 ALBFenyvesi, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.9 FENSimon, Clea.
Summary: Dulcie Schwartz struggles to prove her innocence when a scholar she recently threatened to kill for ruining her thesis turns up dead, in a case that is further complicated by cryptic advice from ghost cat Mr. Grey and her kitten, Esmé.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMAlbom, Mitch
Summary: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.12 ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 378.12 ALBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AlbomSchwartz, Lynne Sharon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 SCHLaird, Paul R
Summary: This book is a detailed consideration of the various projects composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz has worked on throughout his career. Paul R. Laird discusses in length Schwartz's major shows, including Godspell, Pippin, and Wicked, and also considers Schwartz's other projects, including the music and lyrics for such animated features as Enchanted, The Prince of Egypt, and Pocahontas. Based upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.14 LAISchwartz, Casey
Summary: "The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture's flagging ability to pay attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the information age. The average American checks their phone 150 times a day, but we touch our phones about 2,617 times in those same hours....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.7 SCHSimon, Clea.
Summary: Could a missing book be haunted? Dulcie Schwartz doesn't want to think so, but ever since it disappeared from the university, things have gone from bad to worse - one of her colleagues accused of homicide, and another revealed as an impostor. To top it all off, both the ghost cat Mr Grey and the kitten Esme seem to have switched their allegiance to her boyfriend. Deprived of feline assistance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSummary: This made-for-TV movie tells the story of an old man, professor of sociology, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying from ALS. He tells a former student, Mitch Albom, about dying, living and what's important in life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: The author visits with his former college professor, who gave him sound advice and guidance when he was younger. In the last months of his life, Morrie teaches Mitch abouth lessons in how to live once again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378.12 ALBCastner, Brian.
Summary: "When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer? In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016