Alsous, Zaina
Summary: This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Arkansas Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALSAlaoui, Amina
Contents: Hado (1:50) -- Búscate en mí (6:31) -- Fado Al-Mu'tamid (5:30) -- Flor de nieve (4:07) -- Oh Andaluces (6:55) -- Ya laylo layl (9:18) -- Fado menor (5:26) -- Búscate en mí, var. (5:32) -- Moradía (3:59) -- Las morillas de Jaén (7:05) -- Que faré (4:26) -- Arco iris (6:34).
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALAKaina
Contents: Anybody can be in love (2:58) -- It was a home (3:35) -- Good feeling / ft. Sen Morimoto (3:12) -- Sweetness (3:12) -- In my mind (3:09) -- Ultraviolet / ft. Sleater-Kinney (2:47) -- Come back as a flower (4:17) -- Blue / ft. Helado Negro (4:00) -- Casita (3:39) -- Apple (3:24) -- Friend of mine (4:19) -- Golden mirror (3:44).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAIDalhous.
Contents: First Page from Justine -- A Communion with These People -- Function Curve -- Sensitised to This Area -- Lovers of the Highlands -- Four Daughters by Four Women -- Her Mind Was a Blank -- Transference -- To Be Universal You Must Be Specific -- Someone Secure -- Entertain the Idea -- Abyssal Plane -- Thoughts Out of Season -- DSM-III -- Masquerading as Love. A disc of electronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackest Ever Black 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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Contents: Dream -- Ammar -- Illak shi -- Indulgence -- Kaifa uhibuka -- Salam min dimashq -- Almaya -- Ghayeb -- Bint elbalad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palmyra Recordings
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST GAIGaika
Contents: Basic volume -- Hackers & jackers -- Seven churches for St. Jude -- Ruby -- Born thieves -- 36 oaths -- Black empire (killmonger riddim) -- Grip -- Clouds, chemists and the angel Gabriel -- Immigrant sons (pesos & gas) -- Close to the root -- Yard -- Crown & key -- Warlord shoes -- Spectacular anthem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GAIPaint
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PAIArafat, Zaina
Summary: "A novel of self-discovery following a Palestinian-American girl as she navigates queerness, love addiction and a series of tumultuous relationships' The Millions, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina Arafat's powerful debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to creative and confused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dialogue Books 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ARASummary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURHarding, Aldous
Summary: Aldous Harding initially ignited interest with her eponymous debut album. With echoes of folk luminary Linda Perhacs, Harding's work is one step removed from the modern world, lying in the more savage and dramatic terrain where Kate Bush and Scott Walker reside, wrought with a wry wit and tenacious gall. Disarming in its desolate imagery and stark instrumentation, her songs draw from the core...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSainz Borgo, Karina
Summary: "In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here. Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAIZaima, Naoko
Summary: Discover modern Ikebana, the Japanese art of floral design, to form and cultivate internal peace and creativity. You can create minimalist decor with Ikebana, otherwise known as Kado, a disciplined art form that brings together nature and the inner self through flower arrangement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Pear Press 2022
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Summary: "An artistic, fashion-loving boy unlocks a new talent--and learns to stand up for it--in this chapter book perfect for fans of the Sadiq series and Meet Yasmin! Tehzeeb drew curvy clouds, grand galaxies, squirmy squiggles, and delicate dots. He made charming checkerboards and even perfected paisleys. His practice was finally paying off! The first time Tehzeeb tries mehndi, his passion for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BANChaviano, Daina
Summary: Far from her family, her history, and her home in Cuba, Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in the Little Havana section of Miami, where a mysterious woman's fascinating tale keeps her returning night after night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAAbirached, Zeina
Summary: Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ABIFalk, Daina
Summary: Offers game-day recipes from a nationally recognized sports expert and fan, including such options as Cajun shrimp skewers, empanadas, buffalo chicken salad, and Italian hero sandwich, along with signature recipes from professional athletes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 FALKhan, Zainab
Summary: "Noura can't wait for the sun to go down. The month of Ramadan is almost over, and she and Mama and Papa are headed for the hills for a moonsighting picnic. It would be truly special if Noura's first fast ended with a glimpse of a silvery crescent in the night sky. If the moon stays hidden, that means one more long day before Noura gets to put on her sparkly new dress and the joyful Eid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Summary: London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUXHuxley, Aldous
Summary: "Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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Summary: Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT SeriesTelgemeierTelgemeier, Raina.
Summary: When a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a babysitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC TELKalsoum, Oum.
Contents: Disc 1: Nasra awiya we farha haniya--Al ward gamil--Ayoha Al Raieh el Moged--El hob halaotou Bil Kintar--Ghanna Rabi'bi lisan at-tayr--Min elli a'al--Ya baghet el e'ied sa'id--Yalli kan yahqik anini
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Music 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST KALMarina
Contents: Ancient dreams in a modern land -- Venus fly trap -- Man's world -- Purge the poison -- Highly emotional people -- New America -- Pandora's box -- I love you but I love me more -- Flowers -- Goodbye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021