Summary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD
Ame
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AMEFiddler, Amp.
Contents: Crazy day -- Drama inside -- I fell on the wagon -- U -- Blackhouse (Paint the white house black) -- Be alright -- I believe in you -- Serious -- Lonely -- Vibrationship -- Changes -- This world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC FIDMcKay, Ami
Summary: The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCKSummary: A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. A film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYEAmer, Lindz
Summary: "A young informational storybook introducing the concept of pronouns and identifying one's pronouns to kids"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaAma, Rachel
Summary: "Rachel Ama is reframing vegan cooking by creating one main centerpiece dish that makes flavor-packed vegetables the worthy hero of every meal. With over 80 brand new recipes inspired by her Caribbean and African roots, Rachel offers three creative and flavorsome ways to serve and use each one-pot recipe. Each one pot or pan centerpiece can be spun out over a few days, into three different and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Kite 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 AMASabic-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 SABAmer, Lindz
Summary: "An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space. In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. While they may not be able to address every problem across the country, there's a simple place to start: right at home. Rainbow Parenting is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 AMECurved Air.
Contents: Disc 1 CD : Young mother -- Back street luv -- Jumbo -- You know -- Puppets -- Everdance -- Bright summer's day '68 -- Piece of mind -- Young mother in style -- It happened today -- Blind man -- Propositions -- Vivaldi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Esoteric Recordings 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CURDyckman, Ame
Summary: Life personified appears at a child's door and takes them on a journey in which they learn to have the time of their Life, that Life is full of surprises, and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DYCDyckman, Ame
Summary: Tiny fantasizes he is a mighty Barbarian who can conquer anything, but even he has trouble conquering the dark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DYCAma, Rachel
Summary: Find brilliant plant-based dishes that make cooking and enjoying delicious vegan food every day genuinely easy - and fun - in Rachel Ama's Vegan Eats. No bland or boring dishes, and forget all-day cooking. Rachel takes inspiration from naturally vegan dishes and cuisines as well as her Caribbean and West African roots to create great full-flavour recipes that are easy to make and will inspire...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ebury Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56362 AMACodjoe, Ama
Summary: "Ama Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 CODDyckman, Ame
Summary: A literate fox attempts to teach a trio of overzealous lemmings to read in order to save them from their habit of jumping off cliffs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DYCGuttfreund, Amir
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTHusain, Amir
Summary: Explores universal questions about humanity's capacity for living and thriving in the coming age of sentient machines and AI, examining debates from opposing perspectives while discussing emerging intellectual diversity and its potential role in enabling a positive life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HUSMcKay, Ami
Summary: Moth is sold into servitude by her mother, and when Moth escapes she finds her mother gone, and she must survive on her own in the murky world of the Bowery, until she meets Miss Everett, the proprietress of an Infant School, a brothel that caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for willing and clean companions, desirable young virgins like Moth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKSimms, Ami
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mallery Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SIMTsarfati, Amir
Summary: "The Mossad has uncovered Iran's plans to smuggle untraceable weapons of mass destruction into Israel. The clock is ticking, and agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux can't act quickly enough. Nir and Nicole find themselves caught in a whirlwind plot of assassinations, espionage, and undercover recon, fighting against the clock to stop this threat against the Middle East. As they draw closer to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction TsarfatiPolonsky, Ami.
Summary: "Grayson, a transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POLSimms, Ami
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mallery Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SimmsVitale, Ami
Summary: Panda Love is a collection of incredible images of these gentle giants. Ami Vitale's stunning photographs, taken on location in China, document the efforts to breed pandas and release them back into the wild. Ami was given unprecedented access to the pandas and her photos give an amazing insight into the bears' lives in both the sanctuaries and their natural habitat. Fluffy panda cubs tumble...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2018