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Summary: "When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archeological expedition begun decades earlier--a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father's legacy as a great archeologist after he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MODDun, Aidan Andrew.
Summary: "Through the story of two lovers, Mosh and Jalilah, this verse novel encapsulates the personal tragedy of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Set in the popular music culture of modern Palestine, using rap rhythms and the sonnet form, Aidan Andrew Dun s new book is verbally accomplished and rhythmically creative, and yet gripping to read as the story unfolds in a fast-moving narrative of twists and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNMcCann, Colum
Summary: "Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCDarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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Summary: "From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUAlyan, Hala
Summary: "From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Will Kaguya and Shirogane outsmart a psychological test designed to reveal their true feelings? Is spoon-feeding each other cake the way to each other's hearts? Then, Shirogane visits Kaguya's home for the first time, but she is too sick to enjoy it. Kaguya tries to befriend Shirogane's little sister, but Chika has beaten her to the punch. And summer vacation arrives, but the student council...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAGBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZKhalil, Aya
Summary: The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2020
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Summary: Fifteen-year-old Dua Iqbal has always had trouble minding her own business. With a silver-tongue and an inquisitive nature, a career in journalism seems fated. When her school merges with another, Dua seizes her chance and sets up a rival newspaper, exposing the controversial stories that teachers and the kids who rule the school would rather keep buried. Dua's investigations are digging up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHANatsume, Sōseki
Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATYakhlif, Yaḥyá.
Summary: A Palestinian novel on the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in which Arabs tried unsuccessfully to crush the newly independent state of Israel. It is told through the eyes of the Arab inhabitants of a Palestinian village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1999
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Summary: Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure; his life is lived in constant fear, yet he is never without hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HABIwahara, Yuji
Summary: True to his warning, Loser -- the infamous phantom thief -- makes an explosive entrance at the art museum to steal the Angels of Black and White Wings statue! "Collector" Kyouma Mabuchi, now teamed up with the android Mira to recover illegal Coils, faces off with the masked thief in the midst of the museum's heavy security. But it just so happens that Loser recognizes Kyouma -- and what's more,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMOjiro, Makoto
Summary: "Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He discovers that the school observatory, once used by the now-defunct astronomy club, may be the perfect place for a nap--but he's not along. Fellow insomniac Isaki Magari is willing to share the observatory with Nakami, and a friendship between the two begins as they bond over the most unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC. 2023
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Summary: "As the Holy War between The Ten Commandments and The Four Archangels begins once more, Estarossa sets off to find Derieri and Monspeet in order to claim their commandments for himself. Before long, he encounters Sariel and Tarmiel, two Archangels who vow to avenge their fallen comrade. But with three commandments already in his possession, can Estarossa even be defeated?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SEVVerne, Jules
Summary: Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC VERHa, Sng-nan
Summary: Ha Sng-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. Among the stories: a woman lends her neighbor a spatula, then starts having gaps in her memory; in a team-building retreat, tenants plan to kill their landlord after he raises the rent. They are ordinary individuals-- in an increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAOda, Tomohito
Summary: "Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends... School is out for the summer, and Komi is still getting used to this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Considered nigh worthless for having failed to inherit the superhuman powers of the bloodlines into which she was born, Miyo Saimori lives her days unwanted and unloved. Her stepmother and her very own father have little time or affection for her, and Miyo must suffer being treated as a servant by her half sister who, unlike Miyo, is blessed with the unusual powers of their blood. Ultimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Enix Manga 2022
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Summary: "The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABMurakami, Haruki
Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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Summary: After braving a pit of poisonous snakes, Gon, Kurapika, Killua, and Leorio face a "reverse tournament" in which no one wants to be the last man standing and from which Killua could be immediately disqualified if his rage spins out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2005