Grostephan, Alan.
Summary: In this taut, moving novel set in present-day Columbia, Wilfredo decides to relocate his family from their small town to a slum in Bogota with relatives. Plunged into a world of almost total ruin, fear, and violence, the family fights to stay alive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROAlai
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation AldaAlda, Alan
Summary: One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.028 ALDAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Summary: The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.02 ALDAkon
Contents: Right now (na na na) -- Beautiful (feat. Colby O'Donis and Kardinal Offishall) -- Keep you much longer -- Trouble maker (feat. Sweet Rush) -- We don't care -- I'm so paid (feat. Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy) -- Holla holla (feat. T-Pain) -- Against the grain (feat. Ray Lavender) -- Be with you -- Sunny day (feat. Wyclef) -- Birthmark -- Over the edge -- Freedom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Motown Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES AKOAlias
Contents: Ghost cloudz -- Crimson across it (featuring Doseone) -- Vermillion coda -- Amber revisions -- Gold clouddead skiez -- Joseph Greenleaf mornings -- Pistachio payoff -- Vallejo's sapphire views -- Indiiggo (featuring Therese Workman) -- Amethyst afternoon-- Pitch black prism -- Slackened onyx -- Aikotune.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALISatayev, Akan
Summary: Follows several generations of a Kazakh family as they live through some of the most dramatic periods of Kazakhstan's history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROAAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep. Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALAAslan, 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 ASLMalan, Rian.
Summary: A chronicle of South Africa's halting, sometimes violent, steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.06 MALSilva, Alen.
Summary: "Basque-born photographer Alen Silva has travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture. He brought back these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins--of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Arts & Open Press 2011
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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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Contents: Hemisphere.--Santa Lucia.--Etoile Astre.--Let go ego.--Hiver.--Selva.--La joueuse de tambour.--Soeur violence.--Echo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: sn 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ULABerg, Alban
Contents: Disque 1. Seite/Side/Face/Lato 1: erster adt/act one/premier acte/atto primo; Langsam, Wozzeck, langsam! (8:13) -- Zweite Szene/Scene 2/ Scène 2/ Scena seconda; Du, der Platz ist verflucht! (6:41) -- Dritte Szene/Scene 3/ Scène 3/Scena terza; Tschin Bum...!Hörst Bub? Da kommen sie! (8:11) -- Seite/Side/Face/Lato 2: Vierte Szene/Scene 4/Scène 4/Scena quarta; Was erleb' ich, Wozzeck? (7:35) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA BERDavis, Alana.
Contents: 32 flavors -- Murder -- Love & pride -- Turtle -- One day -- Crazy -- The weight of the world -- Lullaby -- Free -- Round & around -- Rest of yesterday -- Blame it on me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DAVMastai, Elan
Summary: "There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASAmeri, Anan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AMEKalan, Robert.
Summary: A hermit crab looking for a new home tries several different shells before finding one that fits just right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GRNWI 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KALKysar, Alana
Summary: In this gorgeous collection of eighty-five fresh and sunny recipes, Maui native and popular food blogger Alana Kysar takes you into the homes, restaurants and farms of Hawai'i.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59969 KYSAdams, Alane
Summary: As Abigail enters her second year at Tarkana Witch Academy, she and her friend Hugo are swept into a puzzling mystery involving an Orkadian warship and a powerful missing item.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019