Sirdeshpande, Rashmi
Summary: "Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SASNarayan, Rashmi
Summary: This practical travel guide to South India & Kerala features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion both, ahead of your trip and on the ground. This South India & Kerala guide book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.48 SOURashid, Ahmed.
Summary: The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.04 RASSaujani, Reshma.
Summary: Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey, and other giants of tech. Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 10,000 girls across America. Now its founder, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes! With down-to-earth explanations of coding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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Summary: Even the greatest poet was once a child. And so it was with Rumi. When he was young he was enchanted by birds and books. He later became a scholar, but it was the loss of his best friend, Shams, that inspired Rumi to his most important realization: Love is in us and everywhere. The Persian mystic and poet Rumi is one of the best known and most widely read poets in the world. The renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2024
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Summary: As Neela and her mother cook together, they find a way for Neela's grandmother, who lives in India, to share in both the love and the flavors of the day. Includes tomato facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Children's Books 2021
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Contents: Aubade -- Ground -- Litany -- Ondine -- Niagara -- Double body -- Bottom of thesky -- Mutable signs -- Fanfare -- Moments of exile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018
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Summary: "After the art programs are cut at his school, Dale Donovan recruits talented artists to create an after-school art club"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DOUBunyan, Vashti.
Contents: Lately -- Here before -- Wayward -- Hidden -- Against the sky -- Turning backs -- If I were -- Same but different -- Brother -- Feet of clay -- Wayward hum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DiCristina 2005
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Summary: The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs includes complete descriptions, histories, and cooking suggestions for ingredients from basic herbs to the most exotic seeds and chilies, as well as information on toasting spices, making teas, and infusing various oils and vinegars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LAKTani, Masumi
Summary: "Learn to facilitate productive meetings and build high-performing teams with manga for success! Shigeo, an employee of a building material manufacturing company, is sent to a regional office to improve sales. Along the way, he encounters challenges engaging with the local team but, with advice from a helpful facilitation specialist, Mayumi, he eventually learns to build the skills of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 TANHashimi, Nadia
Summary: When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying brain-dead with a bullet lodged in his neck. His wife is with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2009
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The debut picture book by author and human rights activist Qasim Rashid that celebrates good deeds during the month of Ramadan. It's the first day of Ramadan and Hannah wants to be a part of this important month every way she can. But if she's too young to fast, how can she observe Ramadan? By saving the world, Dada Jaan tells her. And so Hannah learns that by helping her friends and neighbors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2021
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Summary: Zeba's life is shattered when her husband is found brutally murdered. Zeba is arrested and jailed. With the fate of Zeba's life in his hands, Afghan-born, American-raised Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, this is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant. From the author of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zalmani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Contents: Instrumental music and song of Mongolia. Instrumental ensemble: The blue silk overcoat (1:54) -- Bogïno duu: A leafy tree (1:27) -- Bogïno duu: The river of Uliastay (2:06) -- Bogïno duu: The snow-crowned Altai mountains (4:01) -- Urtïn duu: The hallowed road (2:43) -- Urtïn duu: Sünder mountain (5:26) -- Song of praise: Altai mountain paean (4:28). -- Mongolian musical instruments and Köömiy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multicultural Media 1997
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Summary: A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: "It's Rashin's first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over! The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she'll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say? Open this book to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: " There's never been a better time to be a woman. We live in an era when girls are told they can do anything. So why aren't we seeing more women rising to the top ranks of corporations and the government? Why don't our girls have more women in leadership roles to look up to? Women Who Don't Wait In Line is an urgent wake-up call from politico and activist Reshma Saujani. The former New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013