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(Fictitious character) Spider-Man African American women journalists Michigan Detroit Comic books, strips, etc Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Comic books, strips, etc Feature films Feminism Social aspects Jazz 1951-1960 New York (State) New York Brooklyn Radicalism Social change SuperheroesSummary: "[H]andsome young Tariq is about to marry Bilquis, eldest daughter of a prominent and powerful judge. But as he wanders the ancient city of Sana'a late one night, he spots a beautiful young woman dancing in the street and falls madly in love with her. Before long, the young groom must choose between following his heart and protecting his family's honor."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NEWSummary: 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 SQUAbdul-Ahad, Ghaith
Summary: "An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ABDHipp, Jutta
Contents: Just blues (8:38) -- Violets for your furs (6:07) -- Down home (6:39) -- Almost like being in love (6:12) -- Wee dot (7:25) -- Too close for comfort (6:48) -- These foolish things (6:10) -- 'S wonderful (5:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HIPThelonious Monk Quartet
Contents: Nutty (5:25) -- Blues five spot (8:17) -- Let's cool one (9:16) -- In walked Bud (11:23) -- Just a gigolo / Brammer ; Caesar ; Casucci (2:09) -- Misterioso (10:54) -- 'Round midnight / Monk ; Williams ; Hanighen (6:15) -- Evidence (10:14).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MONThelonious Monk Quartet
Contents: Early show: Monk's mood (7:52) -- Evidence (4:41) -- Crepuscule with Nellie (4:28) -- Nutty (5:03) -- Epistrophy (4:28) -- Late show: Bye-ya (6:31) -- Sweet and lovely (9:34) -- Blue Monk (6:30) -- Epistrophy (incomplete) (2:24).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRAbdul-Qaadir, Bilqis/ Henderson, Judith (CON)/ Ahmed, Katherine (ILT)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Monk, Thelonious.
Contents: Trinkle tinkle (9:56) -- In walked Bud (11:06) -- I mean you (13:38) -- Epistrophy (5:09) -- Crepuscole with Nellie (2:56).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MONOdetta
Contents: Hard, oh Lord (4:05) -- Believe I'll go (3:03) -- Oh, papa (3:16) -- How long blues (2:06) -- Hogan's Alley (2:09) -- Leavin' this mornin' (2:46) -- Oh, my babe (4:19) -- Yonder come the blues (2:48) -- Make me a pallet on your floor (3:47) -- Weeping willow blues (2:35) -- Go down, sunshine (2:17) -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out (2:19).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ODEColtrane, John
Contents: India (previously unreleased) -- Chasin' the Trane -- Impressions -- Spiritual -- Miles' mode -- Naima -- Brazilia -- Chasin' another Trane -- India -- Spiritual -- Softly, as in a morning sunrise -- Chasin' the Trane -- Greensleeves -- Impressions -- Spiritual -- Naima (previously unreleased) -- Impressions -- India -- Greensleeves -- Miles' mode (previously unreleased)-- India -- Spiritual.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COLSummary: Rose, a demure and prim governess, arrives in Marrakesh, Morocco to begin a new job as a paid companion to a wealthy English expatriate. As she explores the exotic environs of her new home, she is seduced by the men, music, and mystery of Morocco.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ANOSummary: 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 MARAhamed, Liaquat.
Summary: "With penetrating insights for today, this history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s presents unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century." "In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHAAhamed, Liaquat.
Summary: Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.1092 AhaCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AHAAhmedi, Farah.
Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMAhmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMAhmed, Saladin
Summary: "Miles Morales swings back into the spotlight! When the rampaging Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take a dark turn for the young Spider-Man! What mystery lurks under the surface of this newest villainous uprising? Why does the Rhino have minions? And who is the new antagonist who may just become Miles' most dangerous foe? Maybe Captain America has the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Ahmed, Samira
Summary: "Amira and Hamza must race against time to stop an ancient evil from obtaining a ring of power"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AHMAhmed, Roda
Summary: When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AHMAhmed, Saladin
Summary: While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AHMAhmed, Saladin
Summary: "A WAR FOR THE SOUL OF DETROIT. Elena Abbott is one of Detroit's toughest reporters--and after defeating the dark forces that murdered her husband, she's focused on the most important election in the city's history. But when someone uses dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit, it becomes clear to Abbott that the supernatural conspiracy in her city is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AHMAhmed, Saladin
Summary: "When the rampaging Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take a dark turn for the young Spider-Man! What mystery lurks under the surface of this newest villainous uprising? Why does the Rhino have minions? And who is the new antagonist who may just become Miles' most dangerous foe? Maybe Captain America has the answers! Then, get ready for ... Miles Morales'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Ahmed, Sara
Summary: "As long as feminists have existed, they have been accused of being "killjoys," "buzzkills," "party poopers," and "wet blankets." For having the audacity to insist on a more-just world, feminists are criticized for getting in the way of other people's happiness. In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, renowned feminist theorist Sara Ahmed reclaims the feminist killjoy-showing how killing joy can be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2023