Summary: The riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and artful reenactments to examine how the Tunisian woman's two eldest were radicalized by Islamic extremists. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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Summary: Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 FARSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENAlexander, Eben.
Summary: Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 BEHBren, Paulina
Summary: "The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women-both famous and ordinary-who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York to work in the dazzling new skyscrapers, they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1988
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Summary: "Healthy, home-cooked meals can play a huge role in maintaining a low-carb diet. But many people don't have the time to cook healthy meals and instead find themselves reaching for carb-loaded frozen meals or fast food. The 5-Ingredient Low-Carb Diet Cookbook makes low-carb cooking convenient, featuring 100 deliciously easy recipes made with only 5 everyday ingredients. The 5-Ingredient Low-Carb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill 1983
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Summary: When a second grader takes a chance in class, her confidence level soars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2011
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Summary: Kites and China are practically synonymous, since these childhood toys were originally invented there before becoming popular around the world. For over 2000 years, kites have been a common sight in China, from the imperial court to the common people, and over that time period the craftsmanship of the kite has been perfected-and includes a diversity and richness of styles. In Chinese Kites,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Better Link Press 2015
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Summary: "Guide for parents and high school and college students on how to win scholarships. Contains advice on finding the right scholarships, crafting applications, writing essays and asking the college for a financial aid reassessment. Also has a scholarship directory of 175 awards; examples of winning scholarship applications, essays, and interview questions and answers are included"--
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Summary: Social scientist Bren©♭ Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Spiky lives in the dark of the forest, where he spends his days being very, very bad, bullying the other forest creatures and sharpening the spikes on his body. Those spikes are handy for keeping everybody at a distance, and that's just how Spiky likes it! But then one day the unthinkable happens: Spiky starts losing his spikes! Soon he is left looking as soft and as pink as a soft, pink...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Publishing 2019
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Summary: A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon's minute-by-minute account of his own near-death experience, and what he discovered in the heavenly realm beyond life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2004
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Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019