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Abbas, Fatin Abbas, Marzieh Abbas, Marzieh. Abbs, Annabel Alias Amanaz Andersson, Benny Kiarostami, Abbas Mana SamanaAmanat, Abbas
Summary: A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955 AMAAmanaz
Contents: Amanaz--I am very far--Sunday morning--Khala my friend--History of man--Nsunka Lwendo--Africa--Green apple--Making the scene--Easy street--Big enough--Kale
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Normal records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AMASummary: "On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: 20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mamma 2008Summary: 20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancé, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaSamana
Contents: Melancholy heat -- Live for the road -- The spirit moving -- The beach -- Patience -- All one breath -- Passing me by -- Leaving -- Begin again
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SAMAbbas, Marzieh.
Summary: Nadia and Nadir jet across the world with their parents to visit family in Pakistan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a divison of ABDO 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ABBAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: Nadia's and Nadir's grandparents surprise them with a visit from Pakistan for the Eid holiday, bringing along some special presents. While shopping for toys, the siblings learn about a few Muslim sports icons. This book is aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. -- Adapted from publisher's webpage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ABBAlias
Contents: Ghost cloudz -- Crimson across it (featuring Doseone) -- Vermillion coda -- Amber revisions -- Gold clouddead skiez -- Joseph Greenleaf mornings -- Pistachio payoff -- Vallejo's sapphire views -- Indiiggo (featuring Therese Workman) -- Amethyst afternoon-- Pitch black prism -- Slackened onyx -- Aikotune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP ALISummary: Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks. The film's original cast returns, with new additions including Lily James as a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mamma 2018Andersson, Benny
Contents: When I kissed the teacher (Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies, Celia Imrie) -- I wonder (departure) (Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies) -- One of us (Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper) -- Waterloo (Hugh Skinner, Lily James) -- Why did it have to be me? (Josh Dylan Lily James, Hugh Skinner) -- I have a dream (Lily James) -- Kisses of fire (Panos Mouzourakis, Jessica Keenan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MamAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: After a hurricane hits Houston, the family works together to help the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ABBAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: To celebrate the beginning of Ramaddan, Nadia and Nadir make cookies with their parents
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ABBAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: "With no mosque or Islamic school in his new neighborhood, Zain wonders who he can celebrate Ramadan with, in this introduction to the ninth month of the Islamic calendar that is a time of prayer, reflection, fasting and community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Kiarostami, Abbas
Summary: Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami recreates the final three years of his life through twenty-four short films inspired by a collection of still images.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TWESummary: With hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever. Discovering that Scooby has a secret legacy and epic destiny, Shaggy remembers how he met the puppy and how Mystery, Inc. was formed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ScSummary: In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROAbbas, Fatin
Summary: "A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: It's Noor's first time making her Dadijaan's Special Samosa recipe. When she can't get in touch with her Dadijaan because it's nighttime in Pakistan, Noor must improvise to make her family's recipe without all of the correct ingredients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: On a trip to the beach with friends, Nadia and Nadir are surprised to see so much trash around. They work as a team to come up with a fun way to help clean the beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2023
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Summary: "The Month of Ramadan is coming! Hamza and Aliya are excited to decorate their home, make new resolutions and bake scrumptious, nutritious recipes with their Mama and Baba. One afternoon, Mama falls asleep after preparing food to share with the neighbors, but she forgets to make dessert! Can Hamza and Aliya surprise their Mama with a delicious and nutritious dessert before she wakes up? Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kisa Kids Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABBAbbs, Annabel
Summary: "Based on the true story of the first modern cookery writer, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen is a spellbinding novel about female friend­ship, the struggle for independence, and the transcendent pleasures and solace of food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010