Darwīsh, Najwān
Summary: "From a foremost contemporary Arab poet comes a book of deep poetic sensitivity, power, wit, and existential self-questioning. In a second major book to have been translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, following the critically acclaimed NothingMore to Lose, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish takes the reader on a dizzying journey across histories, cultures, and geographies. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUEid, Kassem
Summary: Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story--a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni. On August 21, 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EID, KASSEM EIDAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 ABUSummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMAbu-Jaber, Diana
Summary: "A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABUAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUContents: Gonna make you sweat (everybody dance now) (C+C Music Factory) -- C'mon n' ride it (the train) (Quad City DJ's) -- It takes two (Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock) -- Bust a move (Young MC) -- U can't touch this (MC Hammer) -- Push it (Salt-n-Pepa) -- Rumpshaker (Wreckx-n-Effect) -- Humpin' around (Bobby Brown) -- Real love (Jody Watley) -- You dropped a bomb on me (Gap Band) -- Word up! (Cameo) -- Shake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2009
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Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUAbu-Jaber, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUAbu-Jamal, Mumia
Summary: "'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; 'Mumia's writings are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 ABUSummary: Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 ABDKaraim, Reed
Summary: "A young man, Eric, drops out of college and lucks into a job with a small-town newspaper where he meets Anna - a woman whose story will both haunt and inspire him for the rest of his life. Set in a remote North Dakota community in the last days before the Internet, The Winter in Anna unfolds around a romance that almost was, and a meditation on what constitutes a life well lived. In wistful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: "It is 1873, and Mycroft Holmes is in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims. Mycroft allows Sherlock to take the case, as he has been asked to find a missing person--the fiance of the woman he loves. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for a murderer, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015
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Summary: When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Abdul-Jabbar 2015Summary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BESSummary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Summary: "An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ABDAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: Traces the evolution of the author's views on social justice, from his youth in the civil rights era to his current role as a cultural commentator on topics ranging from race and economic inequality to music and the influence of the media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 ABDHayes, Karel
Summary: During the summer a family of bears enjoys the comforts of life at a cottage by a lake, alongside the human visitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004