Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURAdriansen, Sophie
Summary: "This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young Black and poor woman living in an American marked by segregation. This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement. This is the story of a long career, that of a pianist and singer as talented as determined. This is the story of Nina Simone, a unique artist, role model, and inspiration for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 SIMONE, NINA ADRSummary: From the 2011 overthrow of a 30-year dictator, through military rule, and culminating with the forced military removal of the Muslim Brotherhood president in the summer of 2013, we follow a group of Egyptian activists as they battle leaders and regimes, and risk their lives to build a new society of conscience. The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster. Through the news, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SQUZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDBates, Samual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.7448 BATBoteach, Shmuel.
Contents: Why we need eroticism now -- The midlife orgasm -- Innocence -- Novelty -- The chase -- Forbidden-ness -- Opposites attract -- Reckless abandon -- Unquenchable yearning -- Beyond the body -- Masculine and feminine in Eastern and Kabbalistic thought -- Kosher tantric sex -- Worshipping the feminine -- Bringing the erotic to the everyday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.9 BOTBoteach, Shmuel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.77 BOTSamuels, Robert
Summary: "A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy-from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing-telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLOYD, GEORGE SAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FLOYD SAMDevlin, Samual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 DEVBoteach, Shmuel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.6 BOTHadid, Yolanda
Summary: In early 2011, just before her wedding to David Foster, Yolanda fell ill. From an outspoken, multi-tasking social butterfly she became trapped in a paralyzing mental cocoon. She suffered from severe debilitating fatigue, migraines, joint pain, anxiety, insomnia, Bell’s palsy, tremors, muscle weakness, severe brain fog, word retrieval difficulty, memory loss and intermittent loss of eyesight. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HADID, YOLANDA HADSamuels, Sharee
Summary: "I wear black when I work out; it's a funeral for my fat. Why a funeral? Because death is permanent; when something dies, it's not coming back. Sharee Samuels was seventeen and 256 pounds when she hit her rock bottom. But with incredible determination and an unflaggingly positive attitude, she went on to lose more than one hundred pounds over the course of five years. When she began documenting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SAMSamuels, Debra.
Summary: Presents recipes for traditional Japanese dishes that are accessible for the novice home cook, from such familiar favorites as chicken teriyaki and shrimp tempura to pumpkin rounds and mochi dumplings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 SAMMarshak, S. (Samuil)
Summary: A retelling of the Slavic folktale in which a young girl outwits her greedy stepmother and stepsister with the help of the Month Brothers who use their magic to enable her to fulfill seemingly impossible tasks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wm. Morrow 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MARShadid, Anthony.
Summary: From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, an account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. The Washington Post's Shadid went to Iraq, neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid--an Arab American born and raised in Oklahoma--was able to disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 SHAShadid, Anthony.
Summary: "In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. He had seen too much violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHADID, ANTHONY SHAGutiérrez, Raquel
Summary: "Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez's debut essay collection Brown Neon gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutierrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 GUTHaddad, Douglas
Summary: Are you concerned or frustrated with the choices your child makes when it comes to their peer groups, study habits, and use of social media? Do you feel your child is pushing you away and your connection is weakening? Are you unsure of the next steps you should take to help your child succeed? A whole new set of parenting concerns arise during tween and teenhood that can be overwhelming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.125 HADBirenbaum, Halina
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.E. Sharpe 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 BIRENBAUM, HALINA BIREjaz, Khadija
Summary: "Cameron Parker made a new friend. His name is Arjun Gupta, and he is a Hindu of Indian descent. Cameron spent a lot of time with Arjun's family and learned a lot about their faith, which the Hindus call sanatana dharma, or the eternal religion. Arjun's grandmother told Cameron the story behind her grandson's name and about a pilgrimage she went on as a little girl. Arjun's sisters told Cameron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Purple Toad Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 294.5 EJAGammel, Irene
Summary: Author Gammel shows how a literary classic was born. Lucy Maud Montgomery's own life began in the rural Cavendish family farmhouse on Prince Edward Island, the place that became the inspiration for Green Gables. Mailmen brought the world to the farmhouse's kitchen door in the form of American mass market periodicals, sparking young Maud's imagination. She pored over these magazines, gleaning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONTGOMERY, L.M GAMBeckett, Samuel
Summary: As Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of Godot, they discuss their lives and consider hanging themselves, but choose to wait for Godot instead, in the hope that he can tell them what their purpose is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842.91 BECGraydon, Samuel
Summary: This inventive new biography of the legendary physicist examines his complex and contradictory nature-from brilliant scientist to charming lothario and life of the party-in 99 vignettes based on intriguingly different particles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EINSTEIN, ALBERT GRAOsherson, Samuel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1992