Dalal, A. Kamala.
Summary: Discusses current, detailed information on virtually everything that defines life in Laos, from its economy and environment to its geography and social trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.4 DALYousafzai, Malala.
Summary: I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school.Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Rubenstein, David M.
Summary: "What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world's largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice.​"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.678 RUBYousafzai, Malala
Summary: Describes the life of the young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, survived an assassination attempt, and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 YOUSAFZAI, MALALA YOUYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 YOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 YOUYousafzai, Malala
Summary: Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "Yo soy Malala, de Christina Lamb y Malala Yousafzai, es el excepcional relato de una familia desterrada por el terrorismo global, de la lucha por la educaci?n de las niñas, de un padre que, mismo propietario de una escuela, apoya su hija y la alenta escribir y a ir al colegio, y de unos padres valientes que quieren a su hija por encima de todo en una sociedad que privilegia a los hijos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH YOUGamal, Adam
Summary: "The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader's popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? In The Plot to Save South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.07 MALYousafzai, Malala
Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.822 YOUYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.822 YOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOUSAFZAI, MALALA YOUGreene, Jamal
Summary: "An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 GREAwad, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWANaj, Amal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3384 NAJAbu-Jamal, Mumia
Summary: "'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; 'Mumia's writings are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 ABUSummary: With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, examine the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from the past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET YOUSAFZAIDell, Pamela
Summary: Take to the skies with songbirds and raptors, and waddle with some flightless birds, too! Organized by animal-science reference topics such as anatomy, migration, and life cycle, Birds introduces young readers and browsers to these feathered animals through full-color photos and concise, factual text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598 DELDell, Pamela.
Summary: A tour through Washington's Mount Rainier National Park introduces the park's flora, fauna, topography, history, weather and attractions. The Trail of Shadows, Nisqually Glacier and the Carbon River are all discussed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.7782 DELWestheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola)
Summary: "America's best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here she shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: 921 WESTHEIMER, RUTH WESMiller, Dalyn A.
Summary: Classic cocktails doesn't just show you how to make kinky and cool cocktails and the classic concoctions you love. It gives you a reason to make them-every day of the year! Page through this colorful, outrageous book, and cocktail shaker and ice bucket in-hand, you'll discover that each day features its own drink recipe and a saucy and riotous tale that links the drink to a historic (well,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sweet Water Press 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.874 MILKamuda, Alan R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Free Press 1993
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 680 KAMWestheimer, Ruth K. (Ruth Karola)
Summary: Dr. Ruth shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WESTHEIMER, RUTH WESSummary: Demonstrations of both traditional and modern bellydancing by Bellyqueen and others. Learn to improvise and dance either alone or with a partner. Provides a low-impact fitness workout.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Firstars 2004