Summary: Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUITyree, Omar.
Summary: Now that the boys are reaching an interesting age, a woman with two illegitimate sons is courted by their fathers. One man is a banker, the other a laborer, but she is not interested as her heart belongs to a truck driver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYROdyr
Summary: "A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ORW1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ODY
Sy, Omar
Summary: In an imaginary world, three creatures help to restore the stolen sun and the moon in their rightful places in the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2017
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Summary: A boy begrudgingly composes a sometimes-rhyming adventure with his precocious little sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABETyree, Omar
Summary: Determined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TYROman, Carola.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dent [etc.] 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMAFriedlander, Omer
Summary: "The poignant, whimsically imaginative stories in Omer Friedlander's debut transport readers to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa. Across the sharply drawn borders that divide them, Friedlander's characters, often outsiders or even outcasts, are haunted by the past, or by the promise of a future that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRITurcios, Omar Figueroa.
Summary: "David lives in a world surrounded by incredible animals who are with him from the moment he gets up until he goes to sleep: when he eats his breakfast, when he plays, when he does his homework, and even when he takes his bath. Enter David's magical world and enjoy a day full of adventures!"--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento De Luz 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Turcios 2012Summary: Lincoln Jefferson, a Marine veteran, is stopped by police and an altercation leads to the fatal shooting of his unarmed son, KJ. Disillusioned upon learning that the officer will not be charged, and that his son was denied a fair trial, Lincoln desperately takes the matter into his own hands in a series of events he hopes will finally lead to justice for his grieving family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMEEl Akkad, Omar
Summary: "More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EL AGutta, Razeena Omar
Summary: "When her huge collection of hijabs and accessories gets way out of control, Hana comes up with a clever plan for sharing her talents and possessions with her community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2022
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Summary: "Nothing is going right for Nayra Mansour. There's the constant pressure from her strict family, ruthless bullying from her classmates, and exhausting friendship demands from Rami -the only other Muslim girl at school. Nayra has had enough. Just when she's considering transferring schools to escape it all, a mysterious djinn named Marjan appears. As a djinn, a mythical being in Islamic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELAAta, Iasmin Omar
Summary: College student Isaac struggles to manage his epilepsy and his day-to-day life. His medication does not seem to work, the doctors won't listen, the schoolwork keeps piling up, his family is in denial about his condition, and his social life falls apart as he feels isolated by his illness. Even with an unexpected new friend by his side, so much is up against him that Isaac is starting to think...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery 13 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Three years after Noah's shocking admission of guilt at the murder trial of Scott Lockhart, he attempts to restart his life, but the damage wrought by his past decisions has made him a ghost of his former self. Alison has been raising daughter Joanie alongside Cole and Luisa in Montauk, but Alison's past continues to rear its ugly head as Cole and Luisa attempt to build their own future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AFFSummary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRHale, Ohara
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage the reader to be still, peaceful, and calm inside while imagining using all five senses to experience nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALKonar, Affinity
Summary: It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee Boudreaux Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Konar 2016Mayr, Diane.
Summary: Littlebat loves to listen to the stories being told below the attic where he sleeps, but he has to wait until just the right time to get close enough to hear them better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2001
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE MAYAmal (Amal Karzai)
Summary: "When two ordinary objects land on a city sidewalk, a little girl's dull day becomes an odyssey of new places and unusual faces. Led far away on a dragon boat, she makes use of her found objects to get past the locked library doors, where erudite elephants open her eyes to the beauty of books and faraway lands. Faced with fantastic animals and discoveries, has she found the secret to make dull...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AMAOram, Hiawyn
Summary: Greedy Greenbackboy enlists Snowboy's help in cutting down all the trees and catching all the fish in return for ka-ching, but after a terrible storm Snowboy realizes they have devastated the land and he asks the Ice Troopers and Polar Bear King for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORAConlon, Emer.
Summary: "BullyDozer tries to cause havoc in Quentin's Quarry and is mean to Tim and Theo...but will he get found out...?"--back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Marketing Ltd. 2014