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Ameri, Anan

Summary: "Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri'a refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in an Arab world. A collection of twenty-three vignettes, Anan's search for the familiar fragrance of jasmine blossoms leads her to reimagine the puzzle pieces of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMERI, ANAN AME

Bakan, Joel

Summary: "From the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power comes this deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Over the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BAK

Akin, Jessica

Summary: Examines the issues surrounding teenage pregnancy, including breaking the news to parents, dealing with judgments and criticism, co-parenting, and finishing school.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 618 AKI

Adaf, Shimon

Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADA

Burd, Van Akin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1992

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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 BURD Burd

Carter, Arlan.

Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CAR

Asad, Muhammad

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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Foundation 2003

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Dobkin, Adin

Summary: "On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021

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Aral, Sinan

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Summary: "Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ARA

Steinsaltz, Adin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 STE

Ahmed, Azam

Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHM

Aiken, Chris

Summary: "Approaching depression as a complex disorder with many different facets rather than all-or-nothing,"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 AIK

Aslan, Reza

Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BASKERVILLE, HOWARD ASL

Arana, Marie

Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARA

Kundnani, Arun.

Summary: "Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about terrorism than they were before his death. The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States, the UK, and across Europe. Based on several years of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 KUN

Ralston, Aron.

Summary: A mountaineer who survived a near-fatal accident by amputating his arm when it became trapped behind a boulder in Utah describes how he endured five days of hypothermia, dehydration, and hallucinations before managing his own rescue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Ralston

Akçam, Taner

Contents: The Ottoman state and its non-Muslim populations -- The Union and progress era -- Turkish nationalism -- What led to the decision for genocide? -- The decision and its aftermath -- The question of punishing the "Turk" -- Ottoman government initiatives -- The Turkish national movement's position on the genocide -- The final phase of the trials -- Why the postwar trials failed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.62 AKC

Chakraverty, Anjan

Summary: "Sacred Buddhist Painting is a lucid and readable account of thangka painting - a form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. Tibetans were often advised by their religious preceptors to commission a painting for the 'removal' of physical or mental obstacles, or to create the prerequisites for 'a long and healthy life'. Like any other virtuous deed, the commissioning of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lustre Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.951 CHA

Messerer, Asaf

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1975

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.82 MES

Shipton, Alyn.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 SHI

Arana, Marie

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Summary: "A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 ARA

Andrews, Arin.

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 AND

Aslan, Reza.

Summary: Presents the origins and history of Islam, with emphasis on its relation to other religions and the impact that terrorism is having on the current perception of Islam throughout the non-Islamic world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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Amin, Manisha.

Summary: Set in rural India, "a ... story of a community's joys and sorrows, the transformative powers of music, the many faces of friendship, and a boy's journey, against all odds, to become a man"--P. [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMI

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