Summary: We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Following a great tradition of poetry throughout history, this book shows the vast conscience and lyrical spirit of resistance on the part of poets in support of the dignity, rights, and humanity of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2007
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Summary: Discusses current, detailed information on virtually everything that defines life in Laos, from its economy and environment to its geography and social trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.4 DALKamal, Sheena
Summary: "Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin House Canada Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAMKamal, Sheena
Summary: "Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent--her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can't ignore--and dark emotions she can't control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it. Finding the truth about her father's life and his violent death takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMWilliams, Kamaal
Contents: Sometimes / Budgie -- Snitches Brew (Live in Atlanta) / Kamal Williams -- Summer madness S.A. / Karriem Riggins -- Space invader (Vocal mix) / Lord Tusk -- Buggin' out / Seiji -- Hey there / Steve Spacek -- Speed metal Jesus / Max Graef -- Two tens madam / Kaidi Tatham -- Southern freeez / Freeez -- Stuck (Original) / Peven Everett -- Sirens / Hard House Banton -- Cause I love you / Diggs Duke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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Summary: "Find your enemy. Before he finds you. Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers' surfaces, and for knowing what they're working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it's the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back--and it's all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMKeila, Kamal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KEISoniah Kamal
Summary: "In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMAmal (Amal Karzai)
Summary: "When two ordinary objects land on a city sidewalk, a little girl's dull day becomes an odyssey of new places and unusual faces. Led far away on a dragon boat, she makes use of her found objects to get past the locked library doors, where erudite elephants open her eyes to the beauty of books and faraway lands. Faced with fantastic animals and discoveries, has she found the secret to make dull...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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Contents: Ke ala a ka Jeep -- He 'ai na ka lani -- Mauna Kea -- Kēhaulani -- Akahi ka manene -- Waipi'o Valley song -- Kēlā mea whiffa -- Hanakeoki -- By and by ho'i mai 'oe -- Wai pahe'e -- Loa'a ko puni kauoha -- La'i au e.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawai'i Sons 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC KAMNair, Kamala.
Summary: When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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Contents: Terroir -- Houmeissa -- Dounia -- Bororo -- Wassa -- Takamba -- Touareg -- Baoura -- Takamba (remix) -- Yeta yeta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARSingh, Komal
Summary: Ara loves big numbers - BIG numbers. She wants to program her droid DeeDee <Beep!> to count all the stars, but she's not sure how. In this upbeat adventure, Ara visits Innovation Plex to enlist the help of four tech trailblazers - inspiring real-life engineers of Google. With her new friends, Ara discovers an algorithm for success that can solve BIG problems and be lots of fun: courage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2018
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Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019
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Summary: This inspirational and colorfully illustrated picture book presents children with positive influences and strong role models to help them grow in today's society. Included are a doctor, nurse, farmer, pilot, mother, father, brother, sister, firefighter, policeman, teacher, construction worker, and soldier. Each has brief description of why that character should be considered a hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palmetto Publishing 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MASGamal, Adam
Summary: "The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Senator Kamala Harris's picture book memoir in which she tells her life story and shows how everyone can be a superhero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005