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Summary: An in-depth look at Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and murder amidst the complexity of U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations. Exclusive interviews explore Khashoggi's con nections with Saudi rulers, Middle Eastern jihadists, and fellow global journalists, as well as his enduring global legacy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KIN

Gouin, Jacques

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOU

Summary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WES

Summary: "In a little town in upstate New York, a close-knit family struggles over many decades to hold onto a small dairy farm. With extraordinary candor and heartbreaking intimacy, this poignant documentary brings to light the true story of an American family: their hopes and dreams, their triumphs over tragedy, the modern conflicts that divide them and the love that binds them together. At the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Morninglight Films 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME

Souffrant, Jamila

Summary: "Journey to Launch podcaster Souffrant debuts with a sound program for achieving financial independence, which she defines as being able to live on the "money you've accumulated in your investment accounts... indefinitely." Her five-step program involves figuring out "what your bills and liabilities are in comparison to what you're earning," paying off most debts, establishing an emergency...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 332.024 SOU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 SOU

Ahmed, Azam

Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHM

Ahamed, Liaquat.

Summary: Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.1092 Aha

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AHA

Ahmedi, Farah.

Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHM

Wilson, Jamia

Summary: "Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form your own views on the 'F' word. This book is for everyone."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint off The Quarto Group 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.42 WIL

Ahamed, Liaquat.

Summary: "With penetrating insights for today, this history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s presents unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century." "In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHA

Rashid, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.04 RAS

Tamimi, Ahed

Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAM

Ahmed, Qanta.

Summary: A female, British Muslim doctor describes her practice treating women in Saudi Arabia, where the harsh code of orthodoxy for women is contradicted by some of the private behavior of wealthy women, but imposes a harsh reality on poor women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 AHM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B AHMED AHM

Rashid, Ahmed.

Summary: Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a renewed al Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.05 RAS

Ahmed, Sara

Summary: "As long as feminists have existed, they have been accused of being "killjoys," "buzzkills," "party poopers," and "wet blankets." For having the audacity to insist on a more-just world, feminists are criticized for getting in the way of other people's happiness. In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, renowned feminist theorist Sara Ahmed reclaims the feminist killjoy-showing how killing joy can be a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 AHM

Wilson, Jamia

Summary: "Join us on a journey across borders, through time and even through space to meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in a celebration of achievement. Meet figureheads, leaders, and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and sporting heroes, including Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams. Discover how their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WIL

Wilson, Jamia

Summary: Young, Gifted and Black Too celebrates the lives of 52 more leaders, heroes, sportspeople, and artists of color from around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WIL

Barrera, Jazmina

Summary: "Divided into six chapters that each cover a specific lighthouse, this meditative account includes general explanations about lighthouses, literary references, shipwrecks, and legends, but also sublime personal digressions about her visits, about collecting, about birds, or about the very light that shines from the lighthouse lanterns."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lines Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.1 BAR

Jamail, Dahr

Summary: "A firsthand chronicle of the catastrophic reality of our planet's changing ecosystems and the necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile Earth while we still can"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.27 JAM

Jamali, Naveed

Summary: "In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMALI, NAVEED JAM

Jaślan, Janina.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Textbook Co. 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.85 JAS

Kincaid, Jamaica.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KIN

Harris, Kamala

Summary: "Senator Kamala Harris's picture book memoir in which she tells her life story and shows how everyone can be a superhero"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAR

Khashoggi, Nabila

Summary: Spartan and friends travel to the Kingdom of Bhutan in Book 4, The Poachers of Tiger Mountain. The travelers arrive at a village hosting a lively archery tournament as part of a Bhutanese festival. They make new friends who invite them to join the feast and watch the performance. Soon the group discovers that poachers have killed off many of the tigers that used to thrive in Bhutan, and now...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Full Cycle Publications 0000

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KHA

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