Summary: Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1988

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Masood, Syed

Summary: "Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAS

Syed, Anoosha

Summary: Mirha questions her name after her classmates continually pronounce it wrong on the first day of school so her mother helps her to learn the significance of her name and to be proud of it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYE

Summary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS OLI

Syed, Anoosha

Summary: Pup Milo sets off on an adventure around the world to track down what he thinks is his best friend's prized possession.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYE

Summary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD O

Qashu, Sayed

Summary: "Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family's side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QAS

Summary: Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AJA

Shafrir, Doree

Summary: "Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business--in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Kashua, Sayed

Summary: A highly respected Jerusalemite attorney embarks on a jealous search for his wife's ex-lover upon finding a love letter in her handwriting tucked inside a used Tolstoy book.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAS

Qashu, Sayed

Summary: A young Arab journalist returns to his hometown -- an Arab village within Israel -- where his already vexed sense of belonging is forced to crisis when the village becomes a pawn in the never-ending power struggle that is the Middle East. Hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life among kin, the prodigal son returns home to find that nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.437 QAS

Shafer, David

Summary: The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Shafak, Elif

Summary: Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Shafak, Elif

Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017

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Shafak, Elif

Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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Shafak, Elif

Summary: The lives of twin sisters born in 1940s Turkey diverge when one stays in their childhood village and becomes a revered midwife while the other moves to London with her bitter husband and three children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013

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Shafak, Elif

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Shafak, Elif

Summary: "Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

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Petroff, Shani

Summary: "Madden's life is a whirlwind of privilege and perks. Born into the elite Purple ring, she is fated to be a Minister of the Seven. Although her position comes with the burden of great responsibility, she's nothing if not confident in her future. Her classmate Dax, an Ash, is clinging to the opposite end of the spectrum. While everyone around her knows what destiny awaits them, Dax's fate is......

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PET

Hoff, Syd

Summary: A lost albatross has trouble finding someone who can direct him to the ocean.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1989

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOF