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 BUDJebreal, Rula.
Summary: Soon to be a major motion picture from award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine. The story begins with Hind, a woman who sacrifices...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Summary: After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MIRCola
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COLMarya, Rupa
Summary: "Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 MARBaba Zula.
Contents: Haller Yollar / Ways & Circumstances -- Sahin Iksiri / Falcon Potion -- Kizil Gözlüm / My Scarlet Eyed -- Rüzgarin Akisi / The Flow Of The Wind -- Salincaksin / U Are The Swing -- Kervan Yolda / Caravan On The Road -- Port Pass -- Kosmogoni -- Kurt Kapma / Eagle Gets Wolf -- Transendance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BABBenjamin, Ruha.
Summary: "From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Polity 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BENQueiroga, Lula.
Contents: Eu no futuro--Luzineide (Arido movie)--O habitat da felicidade--Ultimo minuto--Noite severina--Cano na cabeca--Religion--Roupa no varal--Profano--Instigado--E nenhuma--Ah se eu vou--Rio-que-vem--Torcida inglesa--Rosebud (o verbo e a verba)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sonopress Industria Brasileira 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN QUEPink, Tula.
Summary: Features quilt designs that move beyond simple squares and rectangles and all feature Tula Pink's amazing fabrics. This title includes 10 quilts all accompanied by fun accessories, varying from eye masks and body pillows to storage bags and curtains. It helps you learn how to choose and combine fabric, and use the colorwheel to its full advantage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 746.46 PINFela
Contents: Koola Lobitos 64-68. Highlife time (5:22) -- Omuti tide (3:50) -- Ololufe mi (5:16) -- Wadele wa robin (4:05) -- Laise lairo (4:11) -- Wayo (1st version) (4:41) -- The '69 L.A. sessions. My lady frustration (6:58) -- Viva nigeria (3:45) -- Obe (3:12) -- Ako (2:40) -- Witchcraft (5:25) -- Wayo (3:27) -- Lover (6:08) -- Funky horn (4:42) -- Eko (4:12) -- This is sad (5:19).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wrasse Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KutiFela
Contents: Shuffering and shmiling -- No agreement -- Dog eat dog (instrumental).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KutiFela
Contents: Confusion (25:36) -- Gentleman (14:42) -- Fefe naa efe (8:12) -- Igbe (8:07).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FELFela
Contents: Fela mentality (Intro) (Fela Kuti) -- Kalakuta show (Gab & Lateef) -- Interlude: Live at Kalakuta (Fela Kuti) -- Shuffering & shmiling (Dead Prez, Talib Kewli, Jorge Ben and Bilal) -- Interlude: Gimme sh*t (Mixmaster Mike) -- Water no get enemy (Mixmaster Mike) -- Water no get enemy (D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray & The Soultronics (feat. Nile Rodgers & Roy Hargrove)) -- Gentleman (MeShell...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN REDBenjamin, Ruha
Summary: Benjamin draws on her own experiences as well as research to show how we can build a more just world--one small, and viral, step at a time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Kula Shaker
Contents: Hey dude.--Knight on the town.--Temple of everlasting light.--Govinda.--Smart dogs.--Magic theatre.--Into the deep.--Sleeping jiva.--Tattva.--Grateful when you're dead/Jerry was there.--303.--Start all over.--Hollow man (parts 1& 2).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Entertainment 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KULMagruder, Trula.
Summary: Host a traditional birthday party, a Valentine's party, a costume party for Halloween, and a slumber party for dolls and firends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.21 DOLMartin, Eula.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1975
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 MartiFela
Contents: disc 1. Jeun ko ku (Chop 'n quench) ; Opposite people (edit) ; Highlife time ; Lover ; Viva Nigeria ; Upside down (edit) ; Egbe mi o (Carry me I want to die) ; Johnny just drop (edit) ; VIP (part 2 live in Berlin) -- disc 2. Teacher don't teach me nonsense (edit) ; Go slow (edit) ; Zombie ; Power show (edit) ; Beasts of no nation (edit) ; Shuffering and Shmiling (edit) ; Colonial mentality...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Knitting Factory Records 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Pink, Tula
Summary: "Make a beautiful, modern quilt of your own design with the 100 original quilt blocks or try one of the 5 city-theme sampler quilts designed by Tula"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez's territory--rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox--as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.61 SALBiss, Eula
Summary: Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in children's food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding the conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 BISBiss, Eula.
Summary: A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BISFela
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000