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Chadda, Sarwat Hahn, Chanda Hamza, Nina Lahiri, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jhumpa. Porter, Chana Van Camp, RichardContents: Disc 1. Good living / Aleksandar Hemon (performed by Boyd Gaines) (13:22) -- Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri (performed by Rita Wolf) (49:29) -- Disc 2. The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (performed by Condola Rashad) (25:04) -- Breaking and entering / Sherman Alexie (performed by B.D. Wong) (30:20).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELHahn, Chanda
Summary: "With the Godmother Guild destroyed by Teague's army, Mina finds herself without the guidance of her Fae Godmother. Alone and confused, she must lean on her friends for support. The dark prince threatens their very existence with a show of power on the human plane that has everyone running for their lives. To save them, Mina must make a deal with the prince to become his prisoner or lose her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chanda Hahn 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HAHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hahn 2019Chadda, Sarwat
Summary: Amy and Dan are shocked to learn that Outcast, a violent renegade who is threatening the lives of innocent people, may be a Cahill family member who is determined to exact revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THILahiri, 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 LAHChadda, Sarwat
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues, from wiping out the population of Manhattan in this adventure based on Mesopotamian mythology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Chadda 2021Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Contains nine short stories which chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the borders of nations and generations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAHChadda, Sarwat
Summary: "When the ancient Tablet of Destinies falls into the wrong hands, it is up to Sikander Aziz and his friends to save humanity from having its future erased by two fearsome Mesopotamian gods"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHASummary: After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUNVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANPorter, Chana
Summary: "Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle-but nonetheless world-changing-invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORChadda, Sarwat
Summary: "Three down-on-their-luck adventurers seek a lost civilization in this Minecraft novel. Rajah would do anything to be a great adventurer. But how can he, when his father's already triumphed over every adventure he can think of? Lord Maharajah fought the Ender Dragon, charted the Overworld, and built a grand manor house. Rajah is surrounded by hand-me-downs, from his father's fancy old name to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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Summary: "In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORLahiri, 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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Place a hold to request this item.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 LAHHamza, Nina
Summary: "A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMHamza, Nina
Summary: Samira knows this is going to be the worst summer ever. Her best friend, Kiera, ditched her for the cool girls. Her parents and older sister are taking a trip to India, so Sammy is staring down endless weeks spent with Imran, her little brother, and her Umma. To top it all off--literally!--her house gets TP'd. The TP'ing upsets Imran, who is convinced that they're being targeted because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Contents: A temporary matter.--When Mr. Pirzada came to dine.--Interpreter of maladies.--A real durwan.--Sexy.--Mrs. Sen's.--This blessed house.--The treatment of Bibi Haldar.--The third and final continent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Contents: Unaccustomed earth -- Hell-heaven -- A choice of accommodations -- Only goodness -- Nobody's business -- Hema and Kaushik -- Once in a lifetime -- Year's end -- Going ashore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Delhi 1795: John Beecham, a former soldier in the East India Company, is determined to leave the past behind and start a new life. At the grand house, the staff is shocked that their new master has arrived with his infant son, a baby of mixed parentage. John is determined to reunite his family in Delhi and keep the identity of his child secret, but at what cost to himself and those he loves?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEELahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan, charismatic and impulsive, finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution: the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author gives us a powerful new novel, set in both India and America, that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death. Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P LAHLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003