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Summary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOH

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

Shah, Tahir.

Summary: Describes the author's and his family's experiences after purchasing a run-down palace in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, as they work to renovate the house, exorcise the jinns haunting the structure, and cope with the house's human guardians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 964 SHA

Shah, Tahir.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 963 SHA

Mwai, Melissa H.

Summary: "Follow the life of Stacey Abrams, from her childhood spent growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, to her work with civic engagement and mass voter registrations in Georgia, to her groundbreaking work as the first woman to lead in the Georgia General Assembly and first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. Find out about Stacey Abram's life, achievements, and the challenges...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MWA

Summary: Comprised of a miniseries featuring three 46 minute episodes, the group of filmmakers interview the global community, ranging from political figures to on-the-street citizen dialogue, in the Western, European, and indigenous Arabic communities. Examines the dominant discourse on terrorism in the United States and Europe, and offers critics an opportunity to respond. The film casts a critical...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2007

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

Awad, Amal

Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWA

Swan, Shanna H.

Summary: "In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe-but the story didn't end there. It turns out our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 SWA

Summary: When the residents of Budrus learn that the Israeli army plans to build the Separation Barrier through their town, cutting them off from neighboring Palestinian villages and uprooting their precious olive groves, they decide to organize. Under the leadership of Ayed Morrar, Palestinian men of all political factions come together to wage an unarmed struggle to preserve their lands. Victory seems...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BUD

Koonce, Maria H.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 KOO

Summary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEG

Rabinowitz, Alan

Summary: The renowned cat conservationist reflects on his early childhood struggles with a speech disorder, describing how he only spoke fluently when he was communicating with animals and how he resolved at a young age to find his voice to be their advocate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAB
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAB

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Rabinowitz

Asad, Muhammad

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003

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Domby, Adam H.

Summary: "This book examines the foundational role of deliberate misrepresentation in various elements of white supremist Lost Cause mythology, from Confederate soldiers' military prowess, loyalty, motivation, and unity, to mythical black Confederates, to the evolution of Lost Cause myths to support present-day white supremacy. It adds to the understanding of the memory and reality of the American Civil...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020

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Ressa, Maria

Summary: Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RES

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESSA, MARIA RES

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RESSA RES

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel Message

Parcak, Sarah H

Summary: "A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when new technologies developed for use in space allow an anthropologist a new perspective on earth's ancient histories and new ways of coping with those"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 PAR

Malamud, Bernard

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Summary: This capstone novel in Library of America's Bernard Malamud edition brings together his three final novels: The Tenants, about the growing tension between two male writers -- one Jewish, the other Black -- who are the only inhabitants of a crumbling Manhattan tenement house; Dubin's Lives, a revealing study in the perils and and promise of love in middle age; and God's Grace, a postapocalyptic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America, The 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Summary: The earth is dying! A rocket over the planet is dropping a purple dust into the atmosphere, causing instant death! Flash Gordon and his companions head back to Mongo, the source of the plague. Upon landing, Flash discovers that none other than their arch enemy, Ming the Merciless, is the madman behing the carnage. He also learns of Polarite--the antidote which can only be found in Frigia. ...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distritutor] 2000

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Fla

Nuchi, Adah

Summary: This girl-powered book about puberty is written in the voice of counselors in training at the fictional Camp Silver Moon. This fictionalized nonfiction diary-style guide follows nine 12-year-old girls at a summer camp is like having a best friend or older sister who shares everything there is to know about being comfortable in your chasing body so you can survive and thrive through puberty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 612.6 NUC

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