Sen, Sharmila
Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, SHARMILA SENSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSen, Paul
Summary: "Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energyand entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 536 SENSeny
Summary: "The Initiation Exam throws an unexpected curveball at young Saigami candidates, including Ayumi, who has arrived in this strange fantasy world under mysterious circumstances. While these young, powerful teenagers have no way of knowing, the contest strings are being pulled from the shadows, putting their future careers--and their lives--in jeopardy. Ayumi and the others will have to act fast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SAIMen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MENSen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENSen, Amartya
Summary: "From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity. The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is one of a handful of people who may truly be called"a global intellectual" (Financial Times). A towering figure in the field of economics, Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, AMARTYA SENNee, John Shen Yen
Summary: In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Contents: If the answer isn't love -- Bad state -- St. Peter blind -- Diagnosis -- Pressure on the pulse -- Naive -- Feel change -- What you say -- Surrender -- Deeper -- Pain -- Forsythia -- Reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORSen, Chaitali
Summary: In The Pathless Sky, Chaitali Sen conjures a world in which a nation’s political turmoil, its secret history and growing social unrest turn life into a fragile and capricious thing and love into a necessary refuge to be defended at all cost. A world not unlike the one we live in. John, a hapless young student with a potentially brilliant academic career ahead of him, and Mariam, a shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUWalker, Richard
Summary: Presents comprehensive information on the human body, covering such topics as the musculoskeletal system, immunology, digestion and nutrition, the human life cycle, the nervous system, and the respiratory system--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J612 WALSen, Amartya Kumar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.01 SENSummary: Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BADSummary: Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDHarris, Sharina
Summary: "Reluctant slayer Raven, who hates her new life, the Slayer Society and, of course, vampires, must decide if she can cast aside her feelings for the guy she used to love, join forces and save the world from an ancient evil resurrected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Engangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC HARLecouturier, Xavier
Contents: Aube (5:00) -- Tempest (7:24) -- Carrier (5:49) -- Striations (6:04) -- Waiting (7:27) -- Level up (6:17) -- Event horizon (5:43) -- Monk derivative (6:09) -- Kindling (6:23) -- Guitar hero (5:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LECContents: American style / Weaker Youth Ensemble -- I hate mornings / The Exceptions -- Rude girl / Skolers -- Vasectomy / Johnny Socko -- Ye Olde House of Mutton / The Pacers -- It's time / International Jet Set -- Skankin' in moon boots / Ten Cent Fun -- Chuck Taylors / Tom Collins & the Cocktail Shakers -- Trouble again / Skapone -- Grow up / Mustard Plug -- Down in Jamaica / Heavy Manners -- G.I....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump Up! 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AMEKuti, Seun.
Contents: Many things / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (8:01) -- Na oil / Lekan Animashaun (8:09) -- Don't give that shit to me / Adedimeji Fagbemi (9:21) -- Fire dance / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (8:09) -- Think Afrika / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (6:49) -- Mosquito song / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (7:23) -- African problems / Seun Anikulapo Kuti (5:01)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disorient Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUTSeu Jorge
Contents: Rebel rebel -- Life on Mars? -- Starman -- Ziggy Stardust -- Lady Stardust -- Changes -- Oh! You pretty things -- Rock n' roll suicide -- Suffragette City -- Five years -- Queen bitch -- When I live my dream -- Quicksand -- Team Zissou / Seu Jorge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN JORVath, Sven.
Contents: Harald Björk / Sabor Latino (Mix of Life Version) -- Ripperton / Ordine Gigante -- Rhauder & Paul St. Hilaire / Molekule -- Love Over Entropy / Sea -- Kamran Sadeghi / Flow Me -- Alex & Digby / Angolan Rumble -- Traumer / Ijah -- Omar S / Heard'chew Single (Feat. John Fm) -- Eddie Fowlkes / Oriane -- C-Rau / Sheeos Unn -- Off Feat. Sven Väth / Electrica Salsa (Roman Flügel Remix) -- Pantha Du...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cocoon Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC VATYen, Jennifer
Summary: Smart, kind, and pretty, Liza Yang dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But her mom compares her to older sister Jeannie, and sees Liza as stubborn, rebellious, and determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. The one thing they agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021