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Choudhury, Kushanava Homes and haunts India Kolkata Fantasy Great Britain History 19th century Fiction Kolkata (India) Social conditions 21st century Kolkata (India) Social life and customs 21st century Magic Fiction Monsters Fiction Pentagon (Va.) United States United States. Department of Defense.Chaudry, Rabia
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHAChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHAChowdhary, Zara
Summary: "A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to India's vibrant multiethnic society and the resilience of its women and minorities, especially in the face of growing religious extremism. In 2002, Zara Chowdhary was sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: The author describes how, after moving to New Jersey at the age of twelve, he returned to Calcutta to work for an English language newspaper, where he encountered a chaotic, living city unchanged by time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHOUDHURY, KUSHANAVA CHOShahidi, Afshin
Summary: Afshin Shahidi met Prince in 1993 and soon became his cinematographer and later one of the only people allowed to photograph him. He collaborated with Prince longer than any other photographer. Afshin was the only photographer allowed to shoot the legendary 3121 private parties in Los Angeles that became the most sought after invitations in Hollywood; some of those photos are included in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 SHAKheiriyeh, Rashin
Summary: Even the greatest poet was once a child. And so it was with Rumi. When he was young he was enchanted by birds and books. He later became a scholar, but it was the loss of his best friend, Shams, that inspired Rumi to his most important realization: Love is in us and everywhere. The Persian mystic and poet Rumi is one of the best known and most widely read poets in the world. The renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB RUMI KHEAshton, Jennifer
Summary: Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, Ashton's world-- and that of her children-- was shattered. At once a deeply personal trauma, and a devastating public epidemic, suicide affects millions who are left behind and must work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 ASHAshton, Susanna
Summary: "The story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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Summary: The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the innter working of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022