Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMBurns, Khephra.
Summary: A fictional account of the nomadic wanderings of the boy who grew up to become Mali's great fourteenth-century leader, Mansa Musa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURGuillaume, Laurent
Summary: "A man torn between two continents finds himself in a dangerous confrontation between tradition and corruption. Solo is a former cop who ran away from a dark past in France to start his life over again in Bamako, Mali, as a PI. An ordinary case turns out to be not so ordinary. The drug mule gets her throat slit. The French lawyer is too beautiful and too well-informed. The cocaine is too...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Le French Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIMoss, Todd.
Summary: Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSSummary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: "Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEMoss, Todd.
Summary: Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMari, Michele
Summary: Italy’s great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last. On the cusp between autobiography and fiction, at the crossroads of memory andmyth, these stories by Italy’s answer to both Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges find the obsessions of childhood coming back to haunt the present day in hilarious and unsettling ways.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Card, Orson Scott
Summary: "In Gatefather, the third installment in the Mithermages series, New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to survive to claim his power. Families of Westil in exile on Earth have had a treaty that required...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR MM #3Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: Fantasy Card 2015James, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: Text and photographs introduce young children to their neighbors in Guatemala, Thailand, Greenland, Mali, the U.S., India, South Africa, Fiji, Peru, Afghanistan, Malawi, Spain, Iraq, Rwanda, and Bhutan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD GLOVickers, Elaine
Summary: "Drew was never much of a runner -- until his dad's unexpected diagnosis. Mia has nothing better to do -- until she realizes entering Half Moon Bay's half-marathon could solve her family's housing problems. And just like that they decide to spend their entire summer training to run 13.1 miles. Along the way, they both discover it takes a lot more than a good pair of shoes. Drew and Mia may...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VICSummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULAlston, B. B.
Summary: After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze. But between the fearsome new Head Minister's strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening, Amari's plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC ALSRand, Johnathan.
Summary: When Jessica Harrison and Rachel Owens visit the Mall of America with their class, it's bound to be a lot of fun. After all-- it's the biggest mall in the world! But things aren't quite right at the mall. When Jessica and Rachel investigate, they discover something terrifying: Mannequins-- plastic dummies-- are coming to life!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioCraft Pub. 2003
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series Am RandFlint, Shamini
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Posner-Sanchez, Andrea
Summary: "In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana, a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her incredible journey, she teams up with the legendary demi-god Maui to traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE DISCarr, Patrick W.
Summary: "Following his vision of the coming Messiah, the prophet Daniel creates a select group of men who will count down the calendar to the arrival of Israel's promised king. Centuries later, as the day nears, Myrad, a young magi acolyte, flees for his life when his adoptive father and others are put to death by a ruthless Parthian queen. Having grabbed only a few possessions, Myrad escapes the city,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Neal, Toby (Toby Wilson)
Summary: "Lieutenant Michael Stevens investigates a murder in a fine dining restaurant on Maui that's a feast of possible motives, with jealousy, passion and revenge topping the menu. A host of familiar characters, from Jared Stevens to Dr. Wilson, chime in from their perspectives, each contributing essential information to one of the most complex cases Stevens has encountered--but that's nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Neal 2016