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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 MEHJacob, Mira
Summary: "Brain surgeon Thomas Eapen's decision to shorten his visit to his mother's home in India has consequences that reverberate two decades later as he starts conversing with the dead and daughter Amina must sort through the family's past to help him."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Sethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYBartók, Mira
Summary: In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARCalix, Mira.
Contents: Again it starts -- Poussou -- Woody -- Savanna -- Wolf, the sheep & the door -- Flicker -- Do I ever? -- Six not 6 -- Clement -- I may be over there (but my heart is over here).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warp 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC CALGrant, Mira.
Summary: Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF GRAJacob, Mira
Summary: "Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOB, MIRA JACSummary: After super villain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TEE RATED PG-13Summary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAFGrant, Mira
Summary: "FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story ... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrant, Mira
Summary: "Seven years ago Atagaris set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy. Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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Summary: "THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES. THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAKirshenbaum, Mira.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 KIRNakashima, Mira.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 749.213 NAKPtacin, Mira
Summary: "A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest- running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna-an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 PTAVonne, Mira
Summary: "Describes the disgusting details of the daily life on pirate ships during the Golden Age of piracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capston imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.4 VONSummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULLee, Mira T.
Summary: "A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEESummary: The extended families of Adita and Hemant are gathering in New Delhi for the couples arranged marriage ceremony. However, the realities of modern life make this traditional celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Roy and Jessie are a couple are in a rocky relationship. Following a stay in Beijing they decide to give their relationship one last go and have another adventure together. They decide to travel on the Transsiberian from China to Moscow. The couple discover that the days of the train's glorious luxury has faded and has been replace with cold steel carriages and indifferent fellow passengers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Studios 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TRASummary: 1987, Communist Romania. During the course of one day, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita get a late-term abortion. With abortion, let alone any kind of contraceptive, being illegal, the women have to use illegal means to achieve their goal. Shows the rough and gritty situation in which these college students, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2008