Summary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINDemen
Contents: Niorum -- Morgon -- Korridorer -- Illdrop -- Mea -- Ambur -- Flor
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEMSummary: 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 MARDomet, Sarah
Summary: "In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOMDesmet, Anne
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Davis Publications 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 760.28 DESDesmet, Mattias
Summary: "Occasionally, there are books that try to make sense of a key moment in history - and become an indispensable guide to the times we live in. This book is one of them. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective psychosis to take hold. By analysing our current global situation and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 DESEmet, Joseph
Summary: Positive psychology's primary focus is on what makes people happy. Emet believes that this field of inquiry can find its roots in the age-old wisdom of Buddhism. He shows readers how to replace negative thinking with positive thinking, in order to fulfill the duty we have to others to live a happy life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 294.3 EMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 EMEAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: Cyrus Sham's is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AKBDeMent, Iris.
Contents: Let the mystery be -- These hills -- Hotter than Mojave in my heart -- When love was young -- Our town -- Fifty miles of elbow room -- Infamous angel -- Sweet forgiveness -- After you're gone -- Mama's Opry -- Higher ground.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.DeMent, Iris.
Contents: I've got that old time religion in my heart (3:04) -- Blessed assurance (6:26) -- Fill my way with love (3:02) -- Hide thou me (5:08) -- The old gospel ship (3:10) -- Sweet home of prayer (5:09) -- That glad reunion day (2:10) -- Leaning on the everlasting arms (2:53) -- He reached down (4:12) -- Near the cross (5:03) -- I never shall forget the day (2:42) -- I don't want to get adjusted (3:37)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flariella Records 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DemDeMent, Iris
Contents: Workin' on a world (3:49) -- Goin' down to sing in Texas (8:05) -- Say a good word (4:56) -- The sacred now (4:12) -- I won't ask you why (4:02) -- Warriors of love (5:39) -- Let me be your Jesus (3:59) -- The cherry orchard (4:13) -- Nothin' for the dead (3:38) -- Mahalia (5:02) -- How long (4:03) -- Walkin' daddy (6:30) -- Waycross, Georgia (4:29).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DEMDeMent, Iris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DEMAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: "A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC AKBDeMent, Iris
Summary: DeMent takes the translated verses of poetry selections by Anna Akhmatova and sets them to music.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flariella Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DEMDeMent, Iris.
Contents: Go on ahead and go home -- Before the colors fade -- The kingdom has already come -- The night I learned how not to pray -- Sing the Delta -- If that ain't love -- Livin' on the inside -- Makin' my way back home -- Mornin' glory -- There's a whole lotta heaven -- Mama was always tellin' her truth -- Out of the fire.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flariella Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DEMDeMent, Iris.
Contents: Sweet is the melody (3:41) -- You've done nothing wrong (4:22) -- Calling for you (3:18) -- Childhood memories (4:38) -- No time to cry (6:49) -- Troublesome waters (5:15) -- Mom & dad's waltz (2:37) -- Easy's gettin' harder every day (5:01) -- The shores of Jordan (3:18) -- My life (3:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY DEMDeMent, Jamie.
Summary: Canning isn’t just about putting food in jars and letting it sit and sit—it’s about sealing in the taste of each season and making food from scratch with more interesting and unique flavors. Farmer, restaurateur, and local food advocate Jamie DeMent offers her recipes and tricks for preserving fresh ingredients and interesting creations. Canning in the Modern Kitchen is ideal whether you’re a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.4 DEMAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: Kaveh Akbar's exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf... With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young waitress Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PETSons of Kemet.
Contents: Track Listing: In Memory Of Samir Awad -- In The Castle Of My Skin -- Tiger -- Mo' Wiser -- Breadfruit -- The Hour Of Judgement -- The Long Night Of Octavia E Butler -- Afrofuturism -- Play Mass.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naim Jazz 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SONDemi.
Summary: When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEMDemi.
Summary: Presents an illustrated biography of Joan of Arc, from her early vision of Archangel Michael to her military victories, and eventual execution at the stake for heresy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001