Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie
Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABIAki, Evi
Summary: In Flavors of Africa, Evi Aki shares the traditional Nigerian dishes she grew up enjoying, as well as typical eats from all across the continent. She introduces customary recipes from each of Africa's different regions, including meals from Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Angola and more, all of which she collected with the help of relatives and family friends. Whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishng Co. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.596 AKISummary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: Two-time Critics Choice Award-winner Tatiana Maslany returns in the pulse-racing third season of Orphan Black. After the shocking discovery of Project Castor, Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missing twin Helena and an ailing Cosima searches for the key to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ORPSummary: An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: "Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from MPD (multiple personality disorder) and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he manages to hunt down and kill his wife's murderer. Now a new series of murders have started and the suspect claimed to be Shinji Nishizono. Could it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eiji Ohtsuka Office/MPD Psycho Project 2000
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MPDSummary: Offers a new translation of the text of prayer and song used by Jewish familes each year to celebrate Passover and the story of Exodus, augmented by commentary by a number of modern-day thinkers, including Michael Pollan, Tony Kushner, and Judith Shulevitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.4 NEWSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTHollywood Vampires (Musical group)
Contents: The Last Vampire (1:35) -- Raise The Dead (3:31) -- My Generation (2:48) -- Whole Lotta Love (4:13) -- I Got A Line On You (2:49) -- Five To One/Break On Through (To The Other Side) (4:17) -- One/Jump Into The Fire (5:08) -- Come And Get It (2:59) -- Jeepster (2:43) -- Cold Turkey (3:07) -- Manic Depression (2:44) -- Itchycoo Park (2:55) -- School's Out/Another Brick In The Wall (5:15) -- My...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: UME Direct 2015
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Daré, Abi
Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dare 2020Butler, Nathalie
Summary: Readers will be enchanted by the zany delights in this colorful book. This entertaining narrative is sure to charm emerging readers, educating them about the concept of opposites. Readers will learn to identify opposites including big and small, messy and neat, and hot and cold, as they explore Monster Town. Colorful illustrations bring the story to life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUTDaré, Abi
Summary: "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC DAREKode9.
Contents: Once in a while / Lone -- Revo / Aardvarck -- Blood Orange / Kode9 -- You don't wash (dub) (DJ-Kicks) / Kode9 -- Phat si / Cooly G -- Bellion / ILL Blu -- Heston / Ikonika -- Jelly roll / Scratcha Dva -- Different lekstrix / Mr Mageeka -- Move down low / Grievous Angel -- Look pon me (feat. Natalie Storm) / Sticky -- Jumeirah riddim sequel / Sticky -- Pleaze mugwanti / Mujava -- Natty / Dva --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: !K7 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KODSummary: Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DARTordjman, Nathalie
Summary: Presents fascinating facts through interactive quizzes, detailed seek-and-find scenes, and hands-on activities, like how to make a snail terrarium.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Traditionally, when a witch turns fifteen, she's supposed to go out into the world alone to study magic. Makoto's parents, however, believe that their directionally-challenged daughter should get a high school degree. Instead of being sent out on her own, Makoto and her cat Chito find themselves traveling from the bustling city of Yokohama to Aomori Prefecture, where they'll stay with relatives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Balingit, Abi
Summary: "A sweet baking book of fantastically imaginative remixed Filipinx American dessert recipes, plus stories of the Filipinx American experience by baker-activist, Abi Balingit When the pandemic started her lonely work-from-home life in 2020, Abi channeled all her energy into the one thing that brought her joy: baking. She started to produce Pasalubong boxes filled with novel treats that blended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest an Imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 BALMaxwell, Abi.
Summary: Abandoned as an infant and raised by a young couple, Alice Thornton grows up aching for acceptance and wholly unaware of the women who came before her, a situation that compels her pursuit of a man who cannot love her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXSauer, Abe
Summary: "Written and illustrated by two fathers who value good rhymes and the power of simple, evocative illustrations, Goodnight Loon moves the story that so many parents know by heart into Northwoods territory. Illustrations inspired by the style of Goodnight Moon will give even the youngest child something to search for on every page. This faithful homage brings fresh life to a much-loved story"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2013
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board SauerSummary: "Circus is a super-powered security force of entertainers with special abilities who keep villains off the streets by serving up justice with a side of razzle-dazzle. Despite their best efforts, a sinister organization named Kafka is gaining power through the world using grotesque monsters to carry out their plots. When Circus saves a mysterious boy from Kafka's grasp, the kid gets swept up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation Productions 2014
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME KARSummary: An entomologist is tricked by villagers into spending the night in a shack in a sandpit with a widow whose task is endlessly to haul away sand. He finds he cannot escape and gradually develops an intense bond with his companion and resigns himself to a lifetime of hypnotic routine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film and Video/Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSantana (Musical group)
Summary: Music legend and guitar master Carlos Santana delivers one of the most ambitious, inspired and flat-out magical records of his storied career. There's thrilling feats of bravura musicianship that pair the guitar master with fellow icons like Chick Corea and Steve Winwood, knockout rockers with Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Living Colour's Corey Glover, and genre-bending, hook-filled celebrations...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SANGabi
Contents: Ahhh -- Sleep -- UIntil the end -- Wild sunflowers -- Whole with you -- Let's not exist -- Boob boom kiki -- Breath -- Naked
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018