David Levinson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine Strayed is living a quiet, un?remarkable life in a secluded college town following the mysterious death of her husband, a promising writer whose death may have been an accident, a suicide, or perhaps even a murder. When her former mentor (and onetime lover)—a powerful critic who singlehandedly destroyed her late husband's chance for success—takes a teaching job at the college, Catherine's world threatens to collapse. For with him
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening...
3) Heart of the community: the libraries we love : treasured libraries of the United States and Canada
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xiv, 170 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 31 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
