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Ben-Shahar, Tal Ben-Shahar, Tal. El-Arifi, Saara Maher, Sanam Naqvi, Binte Zehra Tahir, Sabaa. VariousSummary: "[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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NEWSummary: The members of the all-male Tehran soccer team struggle to adjust to the ambitious girls who are trying to find a way onto their team, despite the dangers they face if their true identity is discovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFFSummary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LASBen-Shahar, Tal
Summary: In his trailblazing Harvard courses, his internationally bestselling books, as well as his lectures and videos, positive psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar has shared his wisdom on finding fulfillment with people around the world. But even a happiness expert needs a sympathetic ear now and then. Tal found his—not in a fellow psychologist or guru, but in his longtime neighborhood barber, Avi, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Experiment 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BENBen-Shahar, Tal.
Contents: The question of happiness -- Reconciling present and future -- Happiness explained -- The ultimate currency -- Setting goals -- Happiness in education -- Happiness in the workplace -- Happiness in relationships -- First meditation: self-interest and benevolence -- Second meditation: happiness boosters -- Third meditation: beyond the temporary high -- Fourth meditation: letting our light shine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BENSummary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUEl-Arifi, Saara
Summary: "Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EL-AEl-Arifi, Saara
Summary: "As a warrior in the elven army, Yeeran has known nothing but violence her whole life. Her sister, Lettle, is trying to make a living as a diviner, seeking prophecies of a better future. When a fatal mistake leads to Yeeran's exile from the Elven Lands, both sisters are forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their borders. There they encounter the impossible: the fae court. The fae...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Amal hayeti (3:33) -- Lecon de oud (1:36) -- Lessa faker (3:27) -- Bachraf mazmoum (3:03) -- Elegie (1:45) -- Danse I (1:42) -- Fougue echajera (1:33) -- Notes (0:20) -- Tʺalila (2:13) -- Vocalises, cris de douleurs (1:35) -- Danse II (4:39) -- Ghanili cheouFi cheouFi (3:05) -- Bachraf (4:32) -- Elegie (2:05) -- Theme-alia (2:06).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline Records 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 KERSummary: An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAPSummary: Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAN
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF MaSummary: A portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers, and shed light on the lives of these women whose voices are seldom heard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: Tal Ben-Shahar shares principles from his popular "positive psychology" course at Harvard University in this program designed to help viewers bring more happiness and satisfaction into their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HAPContents: Disc one. Greater (MercyMe) (4:05) ; Soul on fire (Third Day, feat. All Sons & Daughters) (3:16) ; He knows (Jeremy Camp) (3:27) ; Broken together (Casting Crowns) (4:41) ; He knows my name (Francesca Battistelli) (3:26) ; Overwhelmed (Big Daddy Weave) (4:25) ; Jesus loves me (Chris Tomlin) (3:31) ; Save my life (Sidewalk Prophets) (3:44) ; Even so come (Passion, feat. Kristian Stanfill) (4:14)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian Music Group 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN WowCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWVarious
Contents: disc 1. Tire loma da nigbehin / Monomono -- Chant to Mother Earth / Blo -- Jeun ko ku (Cchop'n' quench) / Fela Ransome Kuti & the Africa 70 -- Ifa / Tunji Oyelana & the Benders -- Ikon Allah / Bala Miller & the Great Music Pirameeds of Afrika -- La la la/ Segun Bucknor & his Revolution -- Shango / Peter King -- No discrimination / Tony Allen & his African Messengers -- Akayan ekassa / Sir...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NIGTahir, Sabaa.
Summary: "Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAHCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Tahir 2015Summary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGNaqvi, Binte Zehra
Summary: What would you do if you saw an ant walk toward the ocean, enter the mouth of a frog, and disappear into the deep blue water—only to come back out a few minutes later?! A strange sight indeed! Prophet Sulayman (a) sees exactly this as he is sitting by the seaside. Being a Prophet who can speak to all creatures, he decides to investigate! Find out what Prophet Sulayman (a) asks the ant, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kisa Kids Publications 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAQContents: I sing ammore (Nicola Arigliano) -- Je so pazzo (Pino Daniele) -- Rosso relativo (Tiziano Ferro) -- Quando quando quando (Tony Renis) -- Figli delle stelle (Alan Sorrenti) -- Vacanze romane (Matia Bazaar [sic]) -- Dio e'morto (I Nomadi) -- Bandiera bianca (Franco Battiato) -- La descrizione di un attimo (Tiromancino) -- Per amore mio (Roberto Vecchioni) -- Nel sole (Albano) -- Tutto quello che...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Petrol 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ITAMaher, Sanam
Summary: "In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALOCH, QANDEEL MAHSummary: Over the last 7 years dirtybird has released an eclectic range of bass influenced house music. This new compilation is a glimpse into next wave. 13 different artists deliver deep house, bass music, jackin funk, and ghetto filth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dirtybird 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIRSummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016