Sethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETSummary: Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CALContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINSummary: When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. 'What has gotten into Myne?' they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a 'What' but a 'Who': Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME ASCSummary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECSummary: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: Amid the cultural upheaval of 1950s India, Lata is torn between romance and responsibility, while her wayward brother-in-law Maan has a perilous affair with a glamorous courtesan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUISummary: Peter reveals his sweet K-pop dance moves, Stewie lands a sticky gig as a peanut butter spokesbaby, Brian fetches true love in India, and the gang spends a terrifying night in a totally insane asylum. It's a haunting and hilarious complete season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: In this hysterical assortment of twenty-three uncensored Family Guy episodes, Peter has another painful encounter with the angry Giant Chicken, Quagmire tries to get giggity with Meg, and Brian and Stewie are beside themselves when they travel back in time to the show's pilot episode.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: Stewie, the maniacal baby genius, is distracted from his plans for world domination when he sees a man who looks just like him on television. Convinced that this man must be his real father, Stewie sets off on a cross-country road trip to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: There's nothing tiny about this huge and hilarious collection of episodes (fourteen are even uncensored), in which Brian and Stewie shrink down to microscopic size, Peter becomes the new White House press secretary (no comment), Meg devours internet fame, and Lois uncovers shocking secrets while providing DVD commentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: Go big, smile wide and laugh huge! Start from the beginning of TV's most outrageously irreverent animated comedy with the first 5 hilarious volumes of Family Guy! Meet oversized manchild Peter Griffin, his doting wife Lois, misunderstood first-born Meg, sweethearted Chris, pretentious canine Brian, and Stewie the diabolical baby genius bent on total world domination. Victor is your!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: Life in the Griffin household is never boring, and usually never wholesome either. The Griffins face each uproarious misadventure with no fear-- and no shame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMMirah
Contents: Goat shepherd -- Oxen hope -- Turned the heat off -- Gold rush -- Fleetfoot ghost -- I am the garden -- No direction home -- 24th St. -- LC -- Radiomind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIRMirah
Contents: Counting -- Information -- Lake ocean -- Lighthouse -- Blinded by the pretty light -- Ordinary day -- Hot hot -- Love jetty -- Sundial -- Energy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIRMika
Summary: Singer-songwriter Mika is back with his fifth studio album. It includes the singles Tiny Love, which was featured on Billboard.com, and Ice Cream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIKSummary: Fasten your sofa belts for another fiendishly futile attempt at world domination for Stewie and a diaper full of fun. Television's most outrageous animated family finds itself in all sorts of comically compromising situations, including Chris doing chores for a dirty old man, Meg working as Mayor West's intern, Lois reuniting with her homicidal brother, Brian attending college, Stewie attacked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Big laughs, bigger laughs, and occasionally medium laughs await viewers in this hilarious collection in which Meg gets her booze on, Quagmire loses his favorite body part, and Brian does the unthinkable to Stewie's beloved teddy bear in the series' milestone 300th episode.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMCohen, Ari Seth.
Summary: A collection of street fashion focused on the over-60 set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Power House Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.3 CohenSummary: Take home this freakin' sweet Family Guy set and enjoy the continued adventures of the Griffins, Quahog, Rhode Island's favorite family! You'll get every episode from Volumes 6 through 10! Watch Peter, his family, and loyal friends Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire find their way in and out of trouble, while dealing with giant chickens, evil monkeys, and everything in between!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMKira Kira
Contents: Call it music -- Warmer than the sun -- Blue my mind -- Laniakea -- Beautiful time -- Suikinkutsu -- Puretone -- Magic acid -- Space elevator
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arabesque
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC IRRSummary: In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA LASSummary: The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007