Summary: Over a year has passed since the miraculous homecoming of Flight 828 and the discovery of others who have mysteriously returned. While the Stone family endeavors to keep their friends safe and make their enemies believe the unbelievable, new challenges will test their trust of the callings and each other. But sticking together is more important than ever, because no matter what happens, it's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CIRPujji, Deepika Kaur
Summary: "In this rhyming, sing-song picture book, author Deepika Pujji describes all the wonderful, empowering adjectives that describe a Sikh girl by way of her long, lustrous hair"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PUJKaur, Jasmin
Summary: Kiran flees her home in Punjab for a fresh start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant with a daughter, Sahaara, but when Sahaara learns the truth about Kiran's past, she feels compelled to seek justice, even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAUKapur, Ratika
Summary: Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P KAPKoen, Karleen.
Summary: An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEBrar, Kuljinder Kaur
Summary: "A debut picture book that explores the importance of pronouncing names properly and celebrates cultural identity. Saajin loves his name--he loves it so much that he sees it spelled out in the world around him in his snacks, in the sky and sometimes he even sings it aloud. On his first day of school, Saajin is excited to meet his new classmates, but things take a turn when the teacher...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRAPujji, Deepika Kaur
Summary: Ricky wears a head covering called a patka to protect his uncut hair. Join Ricky to learn about some of the customs and core beliefs of the Sikh people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PUJKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Assuming the responsibilities of governing France after the death of his prime minister, Louis XIV embarks on a love affair with his sister-in-law, Henriette, triggering a scandal that is complicated by a finance minister's growing power and a mysterious boy with an iron mask.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: In the early 1700s, recently widowed Barbara Montgeoffry, the 20-year-old Countess of Devan whose husband died in scandalous circumstances, sails to Virginia for a change of air and takes over management of a family tobacco plantation. In Virginia she creates a stir with her conquests--despite being in mourning--and by freeing slaves. Disturbing news from England, however, send her home to take...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEJaswal, Balli Kaur
Summary: After her father's death, Nikki, who has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community, takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JASKaur Deo, Jesmeen
Summary: High school debater TJ Powar, after she and her cousin become the subject of an ugly meme, makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful... but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DEOKarr, Kathleen
Summary: In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KARKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man -- the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. He's still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes all he can get -- including his brother's wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates.Through a glass darkly kill sweep you away tothe splendors of a lost era. Like gone with the wind,it is richwith characters so vivid -- from aristocrats toscoundrels--they create their own immortality Here is thestory of a great family ruled by a dowager of extraordinarypower: of a young woman seeking low in a world of Englishluxury...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOEJaswal, Balli Kaur
Summary: The wealthy island nation of Singapore seems like an oasis of luxury and order, but it owes everything to the immigrant women no one sees. Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workers--part of the wave of women sent to Singapore to be cleaners, maids, and caregivers in its decadent homes. A veteran domestic worker, Corazon had retired back to the Philippines for good, but she has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JASSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUHemmings, Kaui Hart.
Summary: A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters--ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex--as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from life support.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hemmings 2011Hemmings, Kaui Hart
Summary: A hilarious and charming story about a quirky single mom in San Francisco who tiptoes through the minefields of the Mommy Wars and manages to find friendship and love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMKarr, Kathleen.
Summary: Susan Elizabeth's mother is a suffragist, fighting for women's right to vote, but when she begins picketing the White House she ends up in chains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Hist Fiction KarrSummary: "October, 1940. Manchester, England. As valiant Jewish RAF pilot David defends the skies against the Luftwaffe, Harry and Kasia finally arrive home. How will Robina cope with another refugee under roof? When yet another house guest arrives -- Sir James, a civil servant on official business -- he looks set to beguile his host, but will Kasia be charmed as well? Meanwhile, in Berlin, teenager...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WORHemmings, Kaui Hart.
Summary: A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters--ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex--as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from life support.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemmings, Kaui Hart.
Summary: Now a major motion picture starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne. Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state's largest landowners. Matthew King's daughters--Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict--are out of control, and their charismatic, thrill-seeking mother, Joanie, lies in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2007