Summary: When the residents of Budrus learn that the Israeli army plans to build the Separation Barrier through their town, cutting them off from neighboring Palestinian villages and uprooting their precious olive groves, they decide to organize. Under the leadership of Ayed Morrar, Palestinian men of all political factions come together to wage an unarmed struggle to preserve their lands. Victory seems...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BUD

Franklin, Aretha.

Contents: Jumpin Jack flash (feat. Keith Richards) -- Sisters are doin' it for themselves (feat. Eurythmics) -- I knew you were waiting (for me) (feat. George Michael) -- What now my love (feat. Frank Sinatra) -- Put you up on game (feat. Fantasia) -- What y'all came to do (feat. John Legend) -- Never gonna break my faith (feat. Mary J. Blige and Harlem Boys Choir) -- Through the storm (feat. Elton John)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRA

Rostam

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROS

Naeem

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP NAE

Rosser, Kareem

Summary: "An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSSER, KAREEM ROS

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 ABD

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: "It is 1873, and Mycroft Holmes is in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims. Mycroft allows Sherlock to take the case, as he has been asked to find a missing person--the fiance of the woman he loves. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for a murderer, both...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015

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Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Abdul-Jabbar 2015

Rolston, Holmes

Summary: How is the scientific method similar to and different from the way that Christians think? One tends to see what one is looking for. Those who think about religion also use such frameworks. They may call them creeds. Both science and religion open up "big questions." Scientists seek causes; believers seek meanings

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Elm Hill Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 201.65 ROL

Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata)

Summary: "Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities in the country, and his teenage years in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, James adopts the hybrid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OLU

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ABD

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ABD

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ABD

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABD

Royston, Angela

Summary: "An explanation of life cycles of different types of plants and animals, as well as people"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.8 Roy

Royston, Angela.

Summary: Describes a day in the life of a fire fighter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: 628.9 ROY

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: "An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ABD

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Summary: Traces the evolution of the author's views on social justice, from his youth in the civil rights era to his current role as a cultural commentator on topics ranging from race and economic inequality to music and the influence of the media.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 ABD

Aslam, Nadeem.

Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASL

Getten, Kereen

Summary: Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GET

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Aslam, Nadeem.

Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASL

Karaim, Reed

Summary: "A young man, Eric, drops out of college and lucks into a job with a small-town newspaper where he meets Anna - a woman whose story will both haunt and inspire him for the rest of his life. Set in a remote North Dakota community in the last days before the Internet, The Winter in Anna unfolds around a romance that almost was, and a meditation on what constitutes a life well lived. In wistful,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAR

Royston, Angela.

Summary: Astronauts from the United States help Russian astronauts make repairs on the space station Mir.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1900

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.12 Royston 2000