Knights (Musical group : New York, N.Y.)
Contents: Ascending bird / Siamak Aghaei & Colin Jacobsen (6:58) -- Rusalka. Song to the moon / Antonín Dvořák ; arranged Jesse Diener-Bennett (5:24) -- Azul / Osvaldo Golijov (28:17) -- Tierkreis. Leo / Karlheinz Stockhausen ; arranged Caroline Shaw (3:27) -- Run rabbit run. Suite / Sufjan Stevens ; arranged Michael P. Atkinson (14:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Classics 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KNISisman, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOSWELL, JAMES SISO'Reilly, Séamas
Summary: Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. ­An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'REILLY, SEAMAS O'REShafak, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASidman, Joyce
Summary: "Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People SidmanSlimak, Ludovic
Summary: For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different--and they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: N. Doubleday 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMShafak, Elif
Summary: Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASisman, Adam
Summary: "In this definitive biography Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carré, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight. Of course, the pseudonym John le Carré has helped to keep the public at a distance. Sisman probes Cornwell's unusual upbringing, abandoned by his mother at the age of only five and raised by his con man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LE CARRE, JOHN SISSisman, Adam
Summary: "One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 SISShafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: The lives of twin sisters born in 1940s Turkey diverge when one stays in their childhood village and becomes a revered midwife while the other moves to London with her bitter husband and three children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAYaghmaei, Kourosh .
Summary: Known within the Iranian diaspora simply by his first name, Kourosh's recordings were thought lost after Islamic fundamentalists took control of Iran. They weren't.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST KOUSalak, Kira
Summary: A young journalist journeys deep into the jungles of Papua New Guinea, determined to discover the truth about a Pultizer-winning war correspondent who has reportedly committed suicide.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALSivak, Zoe
Summary: "A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIV SIVStassinopoulos, Agapi
Summary: "This is your year of self-discovery, a journey to create a life filled with grace, meaning, zest, peace, and joy. With warmth and wisdom from a lifetime of spiritual seeking, inspirational force Agapi Stassinopoulos guides you through fifty-two weeks of letting go of what doesn't work for you and finding what does. You'll cultivate the building blocks of self-care (meditation, health, making...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 STAHabib, Samaa.
Summary: "The thrilling and heart-wrenching true story of a former Muslim woman's journey to heaven and back when she was victim of a terrorist bombing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel HabibSidman, Joyce.
Summary: Let snow fall overnight and change the world before morning, making it "slow and delightful and white."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIDSidman, Joyce.
Summary: Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIDSidman, Joyce
Summary: Branches are all around us: in butterfly wings, on gecko toes, in flowers, frost, and mud. Whether as electricity moving across the sky or rivers flowing to the sea, branches are nature's most efficient way to spread and to connect. They are even found inside our own bodies, helping us reach and grow with each breath and heartbeat. Branches--strong, hopeful, beautiful--are the shape of life....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.4 SIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.4 SIDSidman, Joyce.
Summary: A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 SIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811.54 SIDNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUSiamon, Sharon.
Summary: Text and photographs describe paleontologists and their fossil discoveries in Canada's Red Deer River Valley, also known as Dinosaur Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dk Pub. 2007