Katwala, Amit
Summary: Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley. The inventors, John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 KATFriedman, Amit
Contents: Home at last -- Mal-mal -- Name droppin' -- Unconditional love -- Rill-rool -- Blues for Jackito -- Alma -- Sunset -- Stride by stride -- Junk
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Publisher / Publication Date: Origin Records 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FRIChaudhuri, Amit
Summary: A young Indian university student and his bachelor uncle spend the day wandering through London, as they cope with their own alienation, loneliness, and the difficulties of daily life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChaudhuri, Amit
Summary: Three novels by an Indian writer, featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party, in Afternoon Raag he is an Indian student in Oxford, and in A Strange and Sublime Address he is a small boy visiting family in Calcutta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChaudhuri, Amit
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAMajmudar, Amit
Summary: "A fresh, strikingly immediate and elegant verse translation of the classic, with an introduction and helpful guides to each section, by the rising American poet. Born in the United States into a secularized Hindu family, Amit Majmudar puzzled over the many religious traditions on offer, and found that the Bhagavad Gita had much to teach him with its "song of multiplicities." Chief among them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALICmat
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CMAAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: In Rajasthan with her archaeologist parents Reeya Rai finds an ancient stepwell, with an underwater door bearing a mysterious symbol which may be the key to a legendary treasure--if she can come up with an invention and find it before her rival Elsie Acker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIAziz Amna, Dur E
Summary: "For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AZICMAT.
Contents: California (4:05 min) -- Phone Me (3:24 min) -- Vincent Kompany (3:01 min) -- Such A Miranda (2:35 min) -- Rent (4:42 min) -- Where Are Your Kids Tonight? / feat. John Grant (5:26 min) -- Can't Make Up My Mind (4:24 min) -- Whatever's Inconvenient (4:27 min) -- I... Hate Who I Am When I'm Horny (5:13 min) -- Torn Apart (3:20 min) -- Stay For Something (3:36 min) -- Have Fun! (4:30 min)
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Publisher / Publication Date: CMATBABY 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CMAAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: "An animal that looks like a turtle munches on some grass. It has scales and a hard shell. But is it a turtle or a tortoise? Turtles and tortoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their legs, feet, shells, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be delighted as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Sprout 2022
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Summary: Reeya Rai and her friend Finlay discover a priceless ivory peacock in a cave near the Roman site her parents are studying, and Reeya must come up with a way to retrieve the nearly inaccessible artefact before the greedy Dr. Acker finds it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIGaige, Amity
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIGuttfreund, Amir
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTHusain, Amir
Summary: Explores universal questions about humanity's capacity for living and thriving in the coming age of sentient machines and AI, examining debates from opposing perspectives while discussing emerging intellectual diversity and its potential role in enabling a positive life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HUSShlaes, Amity.
Summary: A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOLIDGE, CALVIN SHAAmin, Jahirul
Summary: "Anatomy for Artists presents an extensive visual reference guide to the human form for artists of all abilities and mediums. Over 240 specially commissioned photographs capture every detail, from muscle definition and bony landmarks to a valuable catalogue of postures and poses. Every photograph is overlaid with musculature, planar, and contour diagrams... Detailed diagrams reveal the inner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 3DTotal Publishing 2020
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 743.4 AMIAvit, Clélie
Summary: Elsa has been in a coma for five months. With all hope of reviving her gone, her family and doctors are having to face the devastating fact that it might be time to turn off her life support... They don't realise that in the past few weeks Elsa has regained partial consciousness; she knows where she is and can hear everyone talking around her bed, but she has no way of telling them she's there....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Avit 2016Amis, Kingsley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIBasu, Samit
Summary: "The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large-yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. "They'd known the end times were coming but hadn't known they'd be multiple choice." Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASShlaes, Amity.
Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHLAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: "You see a fin poke out of the water. It's a big gray animal with a friendly face. It looks like a dolphin, but is it a porpoise? Dolphins and porpoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their fins, mouths, teeth, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 AMIAmis, Kingsley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1989