Summary: An illustrated collection of twenty-six stories from the "Arabian Nights," including those of Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin, and lesser known characters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Classics 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 ARATarnowska, Wafa'.
Summary: Shahrazade saves herself from execution by distracting King Shahriyar with stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2010
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT word TarnowskaSummary: The Arabian Nights or A Thousand and One Nights has influenced world literature and enthralled readers for centuries. Its legend tells us that the beautiful Sheherezade prevented her own murder at the hands of a sultan by telling him a never-ending tale of adventure. This classic from the Middle East introduced us to Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba. This absorbing program from Ancient Mysteries...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Since their appearance in Europe some 300 years ago, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights have entranced Western readers with visions of an exotic, magical Middle East. In this program, actor and director Richard E. Grant revisits the book he loved as a child and seeks to understand its persistent hold on the collective imagination. Grant travels to Paris to discover how the Arabist...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Few modern authors have not been influenced by the medieval Middle Eastern literary classic "The book of a thousand and one nights." Over one thousand years ago, a legend was told about a beautiful young woman who attempted to prolong her impending execution by telling adventure tales to a murderous sultan for a thousand and one nights. The tales she wove are set in India, Persia, Egypt,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 ARAAlderson, Brian.
Summary: An illustrated collection of stories from the "Arabian Nights," including those of Sinbad, Ali Baba, and Aladdin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 ALDSalloum, Habeeb
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Ethnic SalloumNapoli, Donna Jo
Summary: A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD NAPKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: A retelling of the adventures of Aladdin who, with the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, fights an evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 KIMWickline, Dan.
Summary: Sinbad's next adventure leads the captain and his crew to Egypt in order to find the next piece of the Jericho visor called the Crown of Anubis. There they are joined by a mysterious yet beautiful woman from Sinbad's past who offers to guide Sinbad on his dangerous quest...a quest that will take them to the lost City of the Dead. Don't miss this series that reinvents the legend of Sinbad, as he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zenescope Entertainment 2009
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Ahdieh, Renée
Summary: In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her in an attempt to break Khalid's curse, save the empire, and reunite with her one true love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHDAhdieh, Renée.
Summary: In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHDChabon, Michael.
Summary: Author Michael Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from "The Arabian Nights" to Alexandre Dumas--in a new novel with a cast of characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHASummary: Scooby-Doo and Shaggy travel to Arabia to become the Caliph's royal food tasters. But they bite off more than they can chew and are forced to run for their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOPiano Guys (Musical group)
Contents: Fight song/Amazing grace/Scotland the brave (4:05) -- A sky full of stars (4:10) -- Hello/Lacrimosa (3:52) -- Okay (3:30) -- Main theme from Pirates of the Caribbean (6:20) -- Celloopa (2:46) -- The jungle book/Sarabande/My own home/Bare necessites (3:42) -- Holding on (3:26) -- Can't stop the feeling (3:02) -- Tour de France (3:35) -- Uncharted (3:32) -- Indiana Jones and the Arabian nights;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Portrait/Sony Masterworks 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING PIALattimore, Deborah Nourse.
Summary: A retelling of three Arabian nights tales; Aladdin, The Queen of the Serpents, and The Lost city of Ubar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.22 LATShah, Tahir.
Summary: Here, travel writer Shah sets out on a bold new journey across Morocco. As he wends his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakesh, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, Tahir collects a dazzling treasury of traditional stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: "Originally written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story, an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, as if framed within a Persian miniature, a ritual of destruction as gradually the narrator, and the reader, discover the meaning hidden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEDWillingham, Bill.
Summary: Now that they know the identity of the Adversary, Fabletown prepares to defend itself. That means forming alliances with others who are unconquered by the Adversary's legions, but the arrival of a delegation from the Arabian Homelands shows them how tricky this can prove to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILScott, David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5961 SCOKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor's fictional home town and America's for almost 40 years. The Chatterbox Cafe, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Bunsens are places and people we know and love, thanks to Keillor's ability to weave a story. Never before collected, these expertly crafted tales are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and surprising...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD KEIBarnes, Steven
Summary: "From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022