Mazari, Najaf
Summary: "This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth. This extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph withintelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape. A musician conjures stones to rise in the air...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAZSummary: When a massive gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A ragtag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side: the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRESummary: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "When you meet someone for the first time, they might ask, "Who are your people?" and "Where are you from?" In these pages is a timeless celebration of the individuals and experiences that help shape young children into the most remarkable and unique beings that they can be"--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SELSummary: They call him 'Moth, ' a hard-luck brawler paroled after serving time for a murder he didn't commit and turned loose into a city decayed by twenty years of Communism. But in an asphalt jungle that makes its own laws, Moth must now battle his way through a cast of killers, con men, agents, outcasts, old partners and his former lover turned ultimate femme fatale. Tonight, one man will stop at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZIFBayard, Louis
Summary: "A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton , or fiction--of any era--that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." --A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln , the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYBayard, Louis.
Summary: A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYJones, Tayari.
Summary: With the opening line of Silver Sparrow , "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families—the public one and the secret one. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2011
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Jones, Tayari.
Summary: Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and brother when she was nine. At 25 she begins to unearth secrets about family, friends, her past, and her altered reality in a journey through truth and forgiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSummary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOMarias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBadani, Sejal
Summary: When New York journalist Jaya suffers her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage, she is desperate to assuage her deep anguish. Going to India to uncover answers to her family's past, she is intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences. Ravi, her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant, reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BADLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHHalevi, Yehuda Nahari
Summary: Tells the story of Yigal Amir, an Israeli extremist who killed Yitzhak Rabin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INCBadani, Sejal
Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Behar, Ruth
Summary: In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEHAsim, Jabari
Summary: Children are invited to explore their toes by playing "This Little Piggy."
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Contains nine short stories which chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the borders of nations and generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAH1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LAH
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Two brothers bound by tragedy. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. A country torn by revolution. A love that lasts long past death. An extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: the best-selling author of The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Books On Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAHBayard, Louis
Summary: A novel about the young Jacqueline Bouvier, and about a marriage that almost never happened. At JFK's behest, Lem Billings, Jack's friend and fixer, is courting Jacqueline Bouvier. Only gradually does Jackie realize she is being groomed to be the perfect political wife.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BAYJones, Tayari
Summary: "Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JONBaart, Nicole
Summary: "Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the throes of a summer romance when Cal and Beth Murphy, a childless couple who lived on a neighboring farm, were brutally murdered. When her younger brother became the prime suspect, June's world collapsed and everything she loved that summer fell away. She left, promising never to return to tiny Jericho, Iowa. Until now....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021