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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMAhamed, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AHAAhmedi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMRashid, 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 RASAhamed, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHALydens, Z. Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 1966
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.456 LYDAhmed, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 AHMAhmed, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 AHMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B AHMED AHMRashid, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.05 RASStarbard, Ann.
Summary: The Dairy Goat Handbook explains everything goat keepers need to know about their animals, from the best ways to keep them healthy to methods for making delicious goat cheese.The Dairy Goat Handbook is a guidebook for those who would like to raise dairy goats - or dream of raising dairy goats and want to know how to begin and maintain a successful herd. There are other books on the business of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 637 STATamimi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAMHarari, Oren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 HARJay-Z
Summary: Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Summary: "A collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time"--Front cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 JAYAhmed, Badeeah Hassan
Summary: "Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 AHMAmmer, Christine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.1 AMMAhles, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.2 AHLMarasli, Armen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Legends for Kids 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Marasli 2012Ahmed, Akbar S.
Summary: Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 AHMAllahyari, Hamed
Summary: Hamed Allahyari cooks to connect - for that joyful moment you can say salamati (Farsi for "health" and "cheers") around the table. A restaurateur in Iran, it was natural for Hamed to gravitate to food after a long and perilous journey to a new life in Australia. He road-tested his dishes at hundreds of cooking classes, eventually launching his heartfelt cafe and restaurant, SalamaTea. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 FUCSHEED, WILFRID
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 423.1 AMMBelgrave, Faye Z.
Summary: "Black girls living in predominantly White environments face unique challenges on the road to adulthood. In Finding Her Voice, three racial justice experts and advocates offer Black teen girls important self-empowerment skills, and provide activities andexercises to help teen readers challenge dominant culture, cultivate self-compassion, and build resilience in a world filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications Inc. 2021