Iftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Now a proud resident of Maine, on the path to citizenship, Abdi Nor Iftin's dramatic, deeply stirring memoir is truly a story for our time: a vivid reminder of why western democracies still beckon to those looking to make a better life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IFTIN, ABDI NOR IFTIftin, Abdi Nor
Summary: Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 IFTSummary: The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlok (Nosferatu, the vampire), leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Preservation 1997
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSSummary: Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savanna, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe, and an orphan, just like him, as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GKIDS 2015
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Contents: Europe, after the rain (6:13) -- Maria, the poet (1913) (4:49) -- Laika's journey (1:29) -- The twins (Prague) (1:58) -- Sarajevo (4:03) -- Andras (2:42) -- Untitled (figures) (3:27) -- Sketchbook (1:56) -- November (6:23) -- Jan's notebook (2:39) -- Arbenita (11 years) (7:07) -- Garden (1973)/interior (3:25) -- Landscape with figure (1922) (5:14) -- Fragment (1:27) -- Lines on a page (one...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fatcat Records 2009