Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNAssad, Sergio.
Contents: [Cronica da casa assassinada]. Trem para Codisburgo ; Chora coração / Antonio Carlos Jobim -- Scaramouche. Brazileira / Darius Milhaud -- Suite bergamasque. Menuet / Claude Debussy -- Laranjeiras / Clarice Assad -- Tahhiyya li ossoulina / Sérgio Assad -- [Cronica da casa assassinada]. Jardim abandonado ; Milagres e palhaços / A.C. Jobim -- [Light in the piazza]. Octet / Adam Guettel -- Arcos da...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ASSAmiry, Suad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 AMIAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMISummary: "A comprehensive biography of the life of artist-poet Kahlil Gibran and his development as an artist transcending geographical boundaries of East and West--includes many rare photographs and images of his work"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIBRAN, KHALIL G. GIBAsad, Muhammad
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 JIBAswad (Musical group)
Contents: Don't turn around (3:38) -- 54-46 was my number (3:10) -- Set them free (3:59) -- Roots rockin' (3:50) -- Need your love (each & every day) (3:02) -- Gimme the dub (4:07) -- Dub fire (4:28) -- Hooked on you (4:02) -- Beauty's only skin deep (3:10) -- Chasing for the breeze (4:51) -- African children (5:57) -- Back to Africa (5:32) -- Warrior charge (5:50) -- Give a little love (4:10) -- Woman...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mango 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE ASWGibran, Kahlil
Summary: A classic, published in 1923, containing 28 prose poems. This edition features twelve full-page mystical drawings by the famous Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GIBGibran, Kahlil
Summary: Presents prose poetry teachings of the prophet Almustafa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1985
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.52 GIBAslam, 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 ASLAsfar, Dan
Summary: Amid the beauty of Michigan's lakes and forested hills lurk spine-tingling stories of the supernatural. These tales of fright-filled folklore span the length and breadth of the Great Lakes State. Read about the Red Dwarf, a hideous harbinger of doom, who continues to be sighted in Detroit whenever tragedy visits; a cantankerous ghost that hampers renovations of an old farmhouse in Gladwin; and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghost House Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 AsfCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MIC 398.2 ASFAslam, Nadeem
Summary: "A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLMasad, Ilana
Summary: "Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMassi, Souad.
Contents: Ya kelbi (Oh! my heart) -- Ghir enta (I only love you) -- Ech edani (I shouldn't have fallen in love with you) -- Yemma (Mummy, I lie to you) -- Yawlidi (My little boy) --Le blen et le mal (Good and evil) -- Houria (Freedom) -- Deb (Heart broken) -- Moudja (The wave) -- Passe le temps (As time goes by) -- Theghri (I send an s.o.s.) -- Bel el madhi (The gate of the past)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wrasse Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MASRashad, Isaiah
Contents: Darkseid -- From the garden (feat. Lil Uzi Vert) -- RIP Young -- Lay wit ya (feat. Duke Deuce) -- Claymore (feat. Smino) -- Headshots (4r da locals) -- All herb (feat. Amindi) -- Hey mista -- True story (feat. Jay Rock & Jay Worthy) -- Wat u sed (feat. Iamdoechii & Kal Banx) -- Don't shoot -- 9-3 Freestyle -- Chad (feat. YGTUT) -- Score (feat. SZA & 6LACK) -- THIB -- HB2U.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP RASAslan, Reza
Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BASKERVILLE, HOWARD ASLAwwad, Sami.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Printing Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.694 AWWMekhennet, Souad
Summary: "The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEKHENNET MEKGibran, Kahlil
Summary: "Originally published in 1923 by Knopf, The Prophet is a teaching fable that is essentially a little book of life for all people at all times. In it, the author explores all of life's important issues--including love, marriage, the human condition, friendship, prayer, beauty, death, and much more. This edition is especially exciting because of the inclusion of newly discovered material--over...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GIBGibran, Kahlil
Summary: "A collection of Gibran's writing focusing on "life.""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GIBGibran, Kahlil
Contents: The broken wings.--The voice of the master.--Thoughts and meditations.--A self-portrait.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 1962
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 GIBAslam, 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