Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURSabic-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.
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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 SABSummary: Tackling an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way, this is the story of Yehezkel and his wife Levana. Well into their 70s, they are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARAli, Samina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALISabic-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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Stuck with you / Huey Leis and the News. -- Rock me tonight / Freddie Jackson. -- You're in love / Wilson Phillips. -- When I'm with you / Sheriff. -- Here I am (just wen I thought I was over you) / Air Supply. -- I'm in you / Peter Frampton. -- Love ballad / L.T.D. -- Feel the fire / Peabo Bryson. -- (Last night) I didn't get to sleep at all / 5th Dimension. -- Crying / Don McLean. -- My Angel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODSummary: After her sister dies in childbirth, a young orthodox Jewish woman's family pressures her to marry her brother-in-law rather than entering into an arranged marriage with a man closer to her age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FILAgha, Shahid Ali
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 AGHAli, Sharifah Enayat
Summary: "If any one thing defines the Afghan experience, it has been an almost constant invasion and domination by outsiders. (The other thing that defines Afghan life is poverty.) Perhaps that historical truth can help to explain the fiercely independent-some would say "warlike"-cultures of the country's various tribal groups. Many Afghans are still overwhelmingly more allegiant to their families,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1 ALIAgha, Shahid Ali
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 AGHSummary: 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: October in the railroad earth / Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen -- Gears / Gil Melle -- The Beat generation / Mamie Van Doren -- My baby / Ken Nordine -- Saturn / Sun ra and his Arkestra -- Jackie / Lambert Hendricks & Ross -- Atomic cocktail / Slim Gaillard -- Salt peanuts / Dizzy Gillespie -- Discovery of America / Al "Jazzbo" Collins -- Blue monk / Theonious Monk -- Dog / Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BEAContents: ...Ready for it? (Taylor Swift) -- Sorry not sorry (Demi Lovato) -- Havana (Camila Cabello) -- Mi gente (J Balvin & Willy William, feat. Beyoncé) -- Best friend (Sofi Tukker, feat. NERVO, the Knocks & Alisa Ueno) -- No limit (G-Eazy, feat. A$AP Rocky & Cardi B) -- Let you down (NF) -- I fall apart (Post Malone) -- Young dumb & broke (Khalid) -- Faking it (Calvin Harris, feat. Kehlani & Lil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWMoor Mother
Contents: Umzansi / (feat. Black Quantum Futurism & Mary Lattimore) -- April 7th / (feat. Keir Neuringer) -- Golden lady / (feat. Melanie Charles) -- Joe McPhee nation time intro / (feat. Keir Neuringer) -- Ode to Mary / (feat. Orion Sun & Jason Moran) -- Woody Shaw / (feat. Melanie Charles) -- Meditation rag / (feat. Aquiles Navarro & Alya Al Sultani) -- So sweet Amina / (feat. Justmadnice & Keir...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RAP MOOSummary: Eight-year-old Ishaan can't seem to get anything right in class and gets into more trouble than is parents can handle. They pack him off to boarding school to 'be disciplined, ' and his art teacher, Nikumbh, realizes that something is wrong and sets out to discover what it is. With time, patience, and care, Nikumbh helps Ishann find himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DRASummary: Neera is a young girl who becomes seperated from her father in Arabia during World War II. Left alone in the desert, she befriends a wild colt, who she names Shetan. Once reunited with her father, however, Neera remains haunted by images of "the lost horse of the desert". This is the prequel to 'The Black Stallion' and shows the relationship between the stallion and the young girl who have come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY YOUSummary: 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: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEASummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: "Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN COMContents: Disc one Make me lose control / Eric Carmen. -- Easy / Commodores. -- It's sad to belong (to someone else) / England Dan & John Ford Coley. -- If I ever fall in love / Shai. -- I'll never get over you getting over me / Expose. -- Every woman in the world / Air Supply. -- Hold me now / Thompson Twins. -- Lonely people / America. -- Close your eyes / Peaches & Herbs. -- If I could reach you / 5th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing, methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away, for a long time. His tightly wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite, an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016