Islam, Farhana
Summary: "Meet a handful of the men and women that helped shape the early life of Prophet Muhammad. In these pages, you will find his mother, Amina bint Wahb; the women that loved and protected him like their very own, Halimah Sa'diyyah and Barakah (Umm Ayman); and his beloved grandfather Abd al-Muttalib, alongside his uncle Abu Talib. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 ISLFarran, Sam
Summary: This gripping and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and 30-year U.S. Marine veteran as he, suffering a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen, remained loyal to America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FARRAN, SAM FARSummary: It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MRS.Issa, Islam
Summary: An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962 ISSEnriquez, Mariana
Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRIslam, Yusuf
Contents: Blackness of the night (2:59) -- See what love did to me (3:44) -- The laughing apple (3:02) -- Olive hill (2:44) -- Grandsons (3:03) -- Mighty peace (2:18) -- Mary and the little lamb (3:35) -- You can do (whatever)! (3:10) -- Northern wind (death of Billy the Kid) (2:41) -- Don't blame them (3:39) -- I'm so sleepy (2:19).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLIslet
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLIslam, Yusuf
Summary: The latest album from the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: YA Music/Yusuf 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLNayani, Farzana
Summary: Nayani gives caregivers the tools for exploring race with their children. She offers practical guidance on how to initiate conversations; consciously foster racial identity development; discuss issues like microaggressions, intersectionality, and privilege; and intentionally cultivate a sense of belonging. In providing an overview of key issues and current topics relevant to raising multiracial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 NAYAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLSummary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAR5 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARIslam, Yusuf
Contents: Wild world (3:19) -- Oh very young (2:35) -- Can't keep it in (2:59) -- Hard headed woman (3:47) -- Moonshadow (2:48) --Two fine people (3:32) -- Peace train 3:44) -- Ready (3:13) -- Father & son (3:38) -- Sitting (3:11) -- Morning has broken (3:17) -- Another Saturday night (2:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1975
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Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLHajali, Issam.
Contents: Ana Damir El Motakallim (11:42 min) -- Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard (3:27 min) -- Khobs (3:31 min) -- Lam Azal (3:36 min) -- Ada (4:58 min) -- Yawma Konna (4:34 min) -- Intazirne (3:13 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST HAJAslam, Nadeem
Summary: "A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARDewar, Isla.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWIsham, Mark.
Contents: At first sight (3:11) -- Simple touch (2:43) -- This is what beautiful looks like (1:53) -- Seeing celebration (1:56) -- To share a feeling (1:34) -- Seeing journey (2:40) -- You don't see me (3:35) -- This look I love (2:35) -- Our eyes aren't what make us see (3:54) -- Love is where you are (Gigi Worth) (5:38) -- Kiss to build a dream on (Louis Armstrong) (3:00) -- It never entered my mind...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ATIsham, Mark.
Contents: A river runs through it.--Casting Presbyterian style.--A land filled with wonder.--Down the alley (with you).--A summer of lumber and fishing.--Shooting the chutes.--Three fisherman.--A trip to the unknown.--A four-count rhythm.--The sheik of Araby.--Bye bye blackbird.--Je ne sais quois.--Swing me high, swing me low.--A place remembered.--A remark was passed.--Rugged cross /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC RIVFarland, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARIsham, Mark.
Contents: Crash -- Go forth my son -- Hands in plain sight -- --Safe now -- No such things as monsters -- Find my baby -- Negligence -- Flames -- Siren -- A really good cloak -- A harsh warning -- Saint Christopher -- Sense of touch -- In the deep (Bird York) -- Maybe tomorrow (Stereophonics).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Superb Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CRAIsham, Mark.
Contents: Seeking Isaiah -- Raffles in Rio -- Lazy afternoon -- Thumbelina -- On the threshold of liberty -- Pittsburgh, 1901 (Theme from Mrs. Soffel) -- And miles to go before he sleeps -- Azael -- A spangled heart belonging to all time and earth -- Men before the mirror -- A tale of two cities -- Tibet part II -- In the blue distance -- All blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Windham Hill/Legacy 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE ISHIsham, Mark.
Contents: Moritat (Lyle Lovett).--The world's smartest man.--The oversight blues.--The underdog.--Your secret's safe with me.--Hunting in your underwear.--On the shoulders of life.--Books and learning.--A chance is what I'm giving you.--The committee calls.--The word is bluffing.--Television on trial.--Everything has its price.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Records 1994