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Takahashi, Rumiko

Summary: "Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun's three daughters and carry on the family's martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma's bride doesn't seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights ... and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RAN

Jalal al-Din Rumi

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 JAL

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Borchert, Wolfgang

Summary: Collection of short stories and a one-act play.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [New Directions] 1971

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOR

Grass, Günter

Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRA

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 JAL

Mitsuki, Miko

Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Hinata Sorazono has a new neighbor--Junya Takinaga, the author of an incredibly popular vampire romance series! Hinata quickly falls for Junya, and he's definitely attracted to her... but what will Hinata do once she realizes Junya is actually a vampire and that a seemingly simple kiss on the lips means his life will be in her hands? Honey Blood Tale 0 is where Hinata and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2015

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HON

Bolaño, Roberto

Summary: Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Summary: "This is a collection of inspirational wisdom for living a meaningful and productive life. This selection of quotations has been chosen to reflect Rumi's inspiring and uplifting approach to life and the inevitable issues that we encounter during our lifetimes. The wisdom includes no-nonsense statements, observations, and facts-ranging from matters of the heart, to understanding human nature, to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891 JAL

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Contents: Working with our humanness -- The ego animal -- Awe, naked wonder -- The inner work -- The step into placelessness -- The gift and the giver -- The passion for God -- Signs that speak -- The pearl of the heart -- The yearning -- Praise, glory -- The only one -- Boiling the chickpeas -- The complete human -- Surrender -- Love is the cause -- Mercy -- Purity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 RUM

Char, René

Summary: "The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few),...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 CHA

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Summary: "Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 BAR

Simon, Eddy

Summary: "This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is done with the collaboration of the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views his life through the eyes of the three women who shared his life for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on and off companion, the other two his muses, one of which was Camille Claudel, a well-recognized sculptor herself....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2020

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SIM

Kobayashi, Issa

Summary: A selection of haikus by the Japanese master. Through an illustrated collection of haiku, the inspirational moments in the life of one family throughout the course of a year are presented, bringing to light the preciousness of the moment and the wonder of today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 895.613 KOB

García Márquez, Gabriel

Summary: "From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed worksof fiction"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 864 GAR

Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 Bagieu

Summary: "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.7 WOR

Ma, Jian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MA

Foster, John L. (John Lawrence)

Contents: Some rather lively lines (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs inscribed on an earthen vessel (Cairo ostracon 25218)--Songs of the garden (Papyrus Harris 500)--Songs of great heart's ease (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs from a faded papyrus (Papyrus Harris 500)--Stanzaic love song (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs of the orchard (Papyrus Turin 1966)--Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter (Papyrus...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493.1 FOS

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Blasco, Serena

Summary: "Enola is back on the case, deciphering clues and developing leads in each of three new mysteries. What she doesn't know is that she, too, is being pursued-by her own brother! Once again, Sherlock Holmes' brilliant, strong-willed younger sister takes center stage in this delightfully drawn graphic novel based on Nancy Springer's bestselling mystery series"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022

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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series Blasco

Summary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Horace.

Summary: A new bilingual translation of the works of a Roman poet, with Latin and English versions on facing pages. In Discipline, one reads, "Sweet and proper it is to die for your country / But Death would just as soon come after him / Who runs away."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 474.01 HOR

Tranströmer, Tomas

Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRA

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