Dwivedi, Avani
Summary: "It's Friday night, and on the bustling streets of Mumbai, a girl heads out with her family to the cinema. As she rides through the winding blocks with her maa, baba, and bhai, old melodies fill the car. And as she captures the sights and sounds of the city with her camera, she imagines a movie unfolding before her eyes. A choreographed dance sequence atop a long line of cars! When they arrive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DWIAbani, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABAAdvani, Asheesh
Contents: Why raising money from family and friends is for you and yours -- Checking out all your financing options --Basic legal and tax issues of business loans from family and friends -- Deciding who to ask for money -- Preparing your business plan and fundraising request -- Deciding interest rate, repayment schedule, and other loan terms -- Drafting your loan request letter -- Making the "kitchen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.15 ADVBallour, Amani
Summary: "This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALADoshi, Avni
Summary: "In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSAbani, Chris.
Summary: Determined to solve a series of murders before he retires, detective Salazar turns to Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in psychopaths, to help determine if a pair of conjoined twins he apprehended are the killers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABASummary: "From the Newark Rebellion of 1967 to current day, the city's narrative has been one of revolution with each generation picking up where the previous had left off. WHY IS WE AMERICANS? weighs in on Newark's struggle against oppression through the personal triumphs and tragedies of the Baraka family -- from Amiri's civil rights leadership and ultimate artistic marginalization, to the horrific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHYAbani, Chris
Summary: "In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Word Essay AbaniHari, Vani
Summary: There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, aka The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 HARAvni, Yotam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AVIAngel-Ajani, Asale
Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGAveni, Anthony F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.93 AVEAveni, Anthony F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 529 AVESummary: After the death of his mother, Raju's father remarries a devious and cunning woman who gets her husband certified as mentally deranged. Raju is brought up without any education and skills, and works on the estate as a laborer. His stepmother wants him to marry an illiterate girl, so that she can continue to dominate him, but he marries Laxmi who is educated and shrewd enough to know that Raju...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shemaroo Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BETAdams, Alane
Summary: As Abigail enters her second year at Tarkana Witch Academy, she and her friend Hugo are swept into a puzzling mystery involving an Orkadian warship and a powerful missing item.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Adams 2019Alwani, Sami
Summary: "In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani weaves together themes of art induced dissociation, queer intergenerational polyamory, racial capitalism and esoteric mystical experiences into 20 slice of life comic stories that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. These stories question society and individual identity. A talking baby philosophizes away his own emotions. A half-man, half-dog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conundrum Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ALWGiridharadas, Anand
Summary: "An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 GIRKanani, Sheila,.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People ParksMadani, Saura
Summary: "A warm slice of homemade pie can complete any celebration--but every baker knows that a problematic pie is enough to sour a sweet occasion. This pie cookbook gives you the support you need to start making perfect, homemade pies from scratch. This pie cookbook gets your dough rolling, complete with step-by-step techniques for mixing, shaping, rolling, and finishing your dough. Refine your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8652 MADMorissette, Alanis.
Contents: Thank you -- Head over feet -- 8 easy steps -- Everything -- Crazy -- Ironic -- Princes familiar (MTV unplugged) -- You learn -- Simple together -- You oughta know -- That I would be good -- Sister blister -- Hands clean -- Mercy -- Still -- Uninvited -- Let's do it (let's fall in love) -- Hand in my pocket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORPetroff, Shani
Summary: "Madden's life is a whirlwind of privilege and perks. Born into the elite Purple ring, she is fated to be a Minister of the Seven. Although her position comes with the burden of great responsibility, she's nothing if not confident in her future. Her classmate Dax, an Ash, is clinging to the opposite end of the spectrum. While everyone around her knows what destiny awaits them, Dax's fate is......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETAl-Khatahtbeh, Amani
Summary: "At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States began their invasion in Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AL-KHATAHTBEH, AMANI ALKSummary: Kirito and his friends go on a mission to seek out the legendary Holy Sword "Excalibur!" News spreads among the players that the sword has been discovered inside ALO. This was actually the very sword that Kirito and Leafa found in the underground realm of Jotunheim several months ago when they saved "Tonky." Summoning Asuna, Klein, Sinon and the others, they set off for the dungeon in Jotunheim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015