Summary: Presents the true stories of three Iraqi people who endured life in a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad during the Iraq War and then were in the streets after their hospital is decimated. The film was shot in Baghdad in 2004. The Iraqi filmmaker had a camera in one hand and an AK-47 in the other. His crew was beaten and lined up to be shot by insurgents, the 14-year old boom boy was shot in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AHLBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuHo, Joanna
Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AISummary: Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show that James has carried with him into adulthood. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRIContents: 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...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Petrol 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ITASabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SABSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 AGHSummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALAgha, Shahid Ali
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 AGHSummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURSawt el Atlas
Contents: Ne me jugez pas = Don't judge me (3:30) -- Ya Mra = Oh lady (3:54) -- Donia = Life (3:37) -- Ness = People / feat. Natacha Atlas (3:34) -- Soleil de ma Vie = The sunshine of my life (4:07) -- L'Hagra = Abandoned (3:54) -- Andalucia / feat. Chico Cana (4:24) -- Mama = Mother (4:22) -- Zmane y Dore = The wheel turns (4:57) -- Datna = Our life has led us (3:45) -- Mouminine = The faithful, the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN SAWSummary: Navy pilot Robin Crusoe ditches his plane after engine trouble and becomes stranded on a tropical island with a poker-playing chimp, an abandonded sub, and a beautiful native girl named Wednesday who was exiled there for disobeying her overprotective father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LtSummary: 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 MARLaraaji
Contents: All pervading (24:18) -- Bethlehem (24:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE LARLaraaji.
Contents: Shiva bhuti -- Shakti flow -- Shivaya namah ho -- Shiva shakti.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Collective Recordings 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE LARLaraaji
Contents: Bring on the sun. Introspection -- Harmonica drone -- Enthusiasm -- Laraajazzi -- Change -- Reborn in Virginia -- Open the gift -- Ocean flow zither.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE LARLaraaji
Contents: disc one, Flow goes the universe. Being here -- Immersion -- A cave in England -- Zither dance -- In continuum -- Deep celestial -- Space choir -- Mbira dance --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE LARAbawi, Atia
Summary: "As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDSummary: Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with a so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday DCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DECParker, Leo
Contents: The lion's roar -- Bad girl -- Rollin' with Leo -- Music hall beat -- Jumpin' Leo -- Talkin' the blues -- Stuffy -- Mad lad returns.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1986
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ PARVarious Artists
Contents: Disc one: (I just) died in your arms tonight / Cutting Crew. -- We belong / Pat Benatar. -- If this is it / Huey Lewis and the News. -- You can't change that / Raydio. -- Oh no / Commodores. -- Because I love you (The postman song) / Stevie B. -- Every time I think of you / Babys. -- Angel in your arms / Hot. -- This night won't last forever / Michael Johnson. -- All out of love / Air Supply....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODAliu, Akim
Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023