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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Conspiracies Pakistan Fiction Identity (Psychology) Fiction Pakistan. Air Force Fiction Presidents Pakistan Fiction Self-confidence Fiction Self-perception Fiction Self-perception Juvenile fiction Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammad FictionSummary: 'At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?' Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu's wife reminds her husband. On his young daughter's birthday, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab, armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47's are prohibited.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAISummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: The final series focuses on the split between Hannah and Nathan. The two divorce lawyers are facing their own divorce amicably, until shock revelations prompt a painful showdown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SPLHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: Hanif will have readers wondering what really caused a C130 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to crash on August 17, 1988.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANBabii
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Death Waltz
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BABBandi
Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BANHanif, Mohammed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HANHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: What really caused a C120 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to tumble out of the sky on August 17, 1988? Was it mechanical failure? Could it possibly have been the result of human error? Was it perhaps the CIA brass taking a risky gambit? Some have said it had something to do with an old blind woman's curse, or the moral of that ancient proverb about star-crossed lovers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANBakar
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BAKMohammad, Akikur
Summary: "As compelling as it is informative and authoritative, The Anatomy of Addiction will lead you to a better understanding about the causes, prevention, and treatment of addiction. It explains in layman's terms what constitutes effective, evidence-based addiction medicine and how to find it. This book provides actionable, scientific information for addicts and their families and details how to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 MOHBakar
Contents: Oneinoneout (3:14) -- Alive! (3:52) -- Facts_situations (2:42) -- All night (3:28) -- Selling biscuits (2:10) -- I'm done (2:29) -- Right here, for now (3:01) -- Hate the sun (3:35) -- Invisible (2:37) -- To open my heart (3:39) -- Hell n back (3:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BAKMuhammad, Ali Shaheed
Contents: Sabor del Ritmo (3:30 min) -- Altitude (3:29 min) -- White Buffalo (2:47 min) -- Trucha (4:37 min) -- The Gardens (6:02 min) -- 73 (4:37 min) -- El Cambio Es Necesario (4:52 min) -- Caló (6:14 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Is Dead 2022
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MUHHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: Following in her healer father's footsteps to become a junior nurse in a Karachi hospital, Alice taps inherent talents to bring relief to suffering patients but is hampered by a bureaucratic caste system, religious prejudice, and a dangerous police squad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMohammed, Rahaf
Summary: In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHAMMAD, RAHAF MOHSabaaneh, Mohammad
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SABNasheed, Mohamed
Summary: President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives wages a campaign to stop global warming beacause a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge his country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISLSellers, Bakari
Summary: "When you meet someone for the first time, they might ask, "Who are your people?" and "Where are you from?" In these pages is a timeless celebration of the individuals and experiences that help shape young children into the most remarkable and unique beings that they can be"--Jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SELMohamed, Premee
Summary: "Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MOHSummary: Presents the true stories of three Iraqi people who endured life in a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad during the Iraq War and then were in the streets after their hospital is decimated. The film was shot in Baghdad in 2004. The Iraqi filmmaker had a camera in one hand and an AK-47 in the other. His crew was beaten and lined up to be shot by insurgents, the 14-year old boom boy was shot in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AHLLeftah, Mohamed
Summary: "In this poignant account of a classmate's suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence. In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEFMohamed, Deena
Summary: "A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishes are real. Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the socio-political realities of contemporary Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik-a fairytale rhyme meaning "Your Wish is My Command" in Arabic-is the story of three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MOHEl Bakkar, Mohammed.
Contents: Port Said -- Sauda sauda (Dark eyes) -- Bint il geran (Girl next door) -- Banat iskandaria (Girls of Alexandria) -- Al Jazayair (Dance of Algiers) -- Hela hope (Be careful of love) -- Haun meelee (Sway here) -- Balady (Native girl) -- Rahks Port Said (Dance of Port Said) -- Hygalo (They say I love her) -- Ah ya zain (Beautiful one).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Music Center 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING ELSellers, Bakari
Summary: "The CNN analyst and youngest state representative in South Carolina's history illuminates the lives of America's forgotten rural, Black working-class men and women"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SELLERS, BAKARI SELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SELLERS SELSummary: "A comedy about four old friends who, driving back from a failed ski trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock by the side of the road above a lake. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Filmmovment 2006