Summary: Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHAAisholpan, Nurgaiv
Summary: "Eagle huntress Aisholpan Nurgaiv shares her story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People NurgaivGallagher, Tim.
Summary: The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, TIM GALWechsler, Doug.
Summary: Describes the physical traits and behavioral habits of this bird of prey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animals WechslerNeff, Todd
Summary: "Tells the story of a laser technology that will have a big impact on society and the brilliant innovators responsible for its development"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3848 NEFSummary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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Orr, Tamra
Summary: "The tiny nation of Qatar on the Arabian Peninsula has made a big impact on the world, especially economically. With large reserves of oil and natural gas, its economy is strong, and it's developed into a nation of wealth and power beyond what its size would suggest. Readers discover these facts and more as they explore the geographic, political, and cultural landscape of Qatar. With the help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 953.63 ORRMatar, Hisham
Summary: "After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATRiggs, Kate
Summary: "A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of falcons, Earth's fast-flying birds of prey. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why peregrine falcons are such good fliers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2017
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Summary: "The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 FALMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATSummary: The star of Ian Falconer's beautifully illustrated books, children know and love Olivia, an adventurous, 'can-do' 6-and-3/4-year-old pig. Olivia has an active imagination, a keen sense of humor, and a spunky, confident personality. In these programs Olivia's world, her family and friends are brought to vibrant life. Olivia encourages creativity, explores the endless possibilities for any great...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Chorion Silver Lining, Inc. 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV OLIMichell, E. B. (Edward Blair)
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. T. Branford Co. 1960
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.252 MICGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at falcons, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their wings, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their threatened status in the world today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks 2016
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Summary: "In Bird Brother, Rodney [Stotts] shares his remarkable journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. For Rodney, a job pulling trash from the Anacostia River with the Earth Conservation Corps began as a side gig to dealing drugs--a way to get a paystub necessary to rent his own apartment. But then something incredible happened: the river's health began...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOTTS, RODNEY STONafisi, Azar.
Summary: Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change. A young girl's pain over family secrets and a mother's lost life, a young woman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NAFISI, AZAR NAFSummary: The Kratt brothers travel the world and go on exciting adventures where they encounter different animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2015
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Summary: "Harper's fast-paced, suspenseful ninth historical (after 2005's The Fatal Fashione) finds Elizabeth I beset by Spanish antagonism at sea and by political rivals in England, especially the scheming Mary, Queen of Scots, and the rebellious northern lords. While on a summer outing in 1569 with her new ally, Francis Drake, an arrow barely misses Elizabeth, claiming the life of her falconer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France on a usb drive hidden in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his 2010 sentence (six years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking, interviews or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THISummary: In 2014, to reduce costs, city officials changed the source of Flint, Michigan's drinking water supply and as a result subjected its population to dangerous levels of lead contamination. This program looks at the logistics of the Flint water crisis and exposes vulnerabilities that exist in water systems throughout the county.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POIPallotta, Jerry
Summary: "What would happen if a Peregrine Falcon and a Red-tailed Hawk met each other? What if they had to fight? Who do you think would win?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: "In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: A memoir about a working-class kid whose passion for the elite pastime of falconry sets him on an unexpected path through adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016