Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OUR

Bonar, Haley

Contents: Hometown -- Your mom is right -- Kismet kill -- I can change -- Stupid face -- Called you queen -- Jealous girls -- Skynz -- Better than me -- Blue diamonds fall.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gndwire Records 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BON

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Hale, Ohara

Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text encourage the reader to be still, peaceful, and calm inside while imagining using all five senses to experience nature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAL

Khaled

Contents: Aalach tloumouni (5:02) -- El harba wine (4:33) -- Leili (4:08) -- Trigue lycee (4:43) -- E'dir e'sseba (5:50) -- Ya aachkou (3:57) -- Melha (6:07) -- Raba-raba (5:37) -- El bab (5:28) -- El aadyeme (5:37) -- Gouloulha-dji (5:37) -- Mele h'bibti (6:29) -- Derwiche tourneur (6:00) -- Chebba (man city remix) (5:19).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ark21 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KHA

Omar

Contents: Vicky's tune (feat. Ty & Robert Glasper) -- Insatiable (feat. Natasha Watts) -- Gave my heart (feat. Leon Ware) -- It's so (Interlood) (feat. Grant Windsor's Big Beat Band) -- Feeds my mind (feat. the Floacist) -- Déjà vu (feat. Mayra Andrade) -- Girl talk (interlude) (feat. the Moteane-Lyefooks) -- This way, that way -- Hold me closer (feat. Stuart Zender) -- I want it to be -- Doobie doobie...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP OMA

Summary: From the Namib Desert to Patagonia, only a handful of places on Earth can claim to be largely unchanged. Isolated from the rest of the world, these places have been protected from the most damaging effects of human interference. Delicately balanced, species-rich, unique ecosystems. In these lands, life exists as nature intended. This series embarks on a breathtaking journey to Earth's last...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EDE

Summary: Three years after Noah's shocking admission of guilt at the murder trial of Scott Lockhart, he attempts to restart his life, but the damage wrought by his past decisions has made him a ghost of his former self. Alison has been raising daughter Joanie alongside Cole and Luisa in Montauk, but Alison's past continues to rear its ugly head as Cole and Luisa attempt to build their own future.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AFF

Khalid

Summary: Hailing from El Paso, Texas, eighteen-year-old singer/songwriter Khalid releases his debut album. It features the first single, Location, along with Let's Go; Hopeless; Coaster; Saved; and the newly released track, Shot Down. Khalid burst onto the music scene with his first single, Location, which received great critical acclaim.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Right Hand Music Group 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KHA

Khalid

Contents: Intro -- Bad luck -- My bad -- Better -- Talk -- Right back -- Don't pretend / (with SAFE) -- Paradise -- Hundred -- Outta my head / (with John Mayer) -- Free spirit -- Twenty one -- Bluffin' -- Self -- Alive -- Heaven -- Saturday nights (bonus track).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Kha

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KHA

Summary: Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALK

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRI

DJ Khaled

Summary: Along being one of the hottest producers in music, DJ Khaled has become a viral star thanks to his inspirational posts on Snapchat. Now he is releasing a new album featuring Jay Z, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Meghan Trainor, and more.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP DJ

Summary: From the 2011 overthrow of a 30-year dictator, through military rule, and culminating with the forced military removal of the Muslim Brotherhood president in the summer of 2013, we follow a group of Egyptian activists as they battle leaders and regimes, and risk their lives to build a new society of conscience. The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster. Through the news, we...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SQU

Luxenberg, Steve

Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUX

Omar.

Contents: Give me back my wig -- Bessie Mae -- Big Chief Pontiac -- Sleeping in the ground -- Lover man -- Come on pretty baby -- Gotta good friend -- Leave her running -- Big round world -- Omar's blues -- Angel child -- Tears like rain -- Too much -- Wine headed woman -- Blues in a bottle.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES OMA

Maalouf, Amin.

Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAA

Summary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARO

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARO

Summary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Summary: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 919.9 FAR

Summary: Music's chart-topping series delivers another collection of hits.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOW

Saint Saviour.

Contents: Intro (Sorry) -- Let It Go -- Intravenous -- Sad Kid -- Bang -- I Remember -- Nobody Died -- Craster -- Devotion -- A Word -- James -- St. Malo.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Surface Area 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAI