Summary: A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: 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 AHLSummary: "Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYAliu, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALINaeem
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP NAEMaalouf, Amin.
Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAAAmin, Manisha.
Summary: Set in rural India, "a ... story of a community's joys and sorrows, the transformative powers of music, the many faces of friendship, and a boy's journey, against all odds, to become a man"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMISummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATHrab, Naseem.
Summary: Ira and Malcolm are best friends: they always make each other laugh, always eat lunch together, and always play together. But one day, a disagreement about whether to play tag or hide-and-seek sees the suddenly über-popular Malcolm run off with a crowd of tag-loving kids―and Ira all alone. Ira’s tummy hurts, his chin is wibbling, and his eyes are leaking. What’s happening?! Any efforts to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HRAHrab, Naseem
Summary: "Snail is a party animal. Well ... kind of. He especially appreciates the quiet things about parties, like confetti, using his indoor voice, and softly blowing out birthday candles. But parties tend to get pretty loud, and that's when Snail disappears into his shell. But not to worry! Snail still has fun at parties - it's just that from inside his shell nobody can tell he's having a good time....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HRAAkon
Contents: Right now (na na na) -- Beautiful (feat. Colby O'Donis and Kardinal Offishall) -- Keep you much longer -- Trouble maker (feat. Sweet Rush) -- We don't care -- I'm so paid (feat. Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy) -- Holla holla (feat. T-Pain) -- Against the grain (feat. Ray Lavender) -- Be with you -- Sunny day (feat. Wyclef) -- Birthmark -- Over the edge -- Freedom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Motown Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES AKOAmiina.
Contents: Fantômas -- Juve & Fandor -- Paris -- Café -- Simplon Express -- Telegram -- Entrepôts de Bercy -- Crocodile -- Lady Beltham -- Bourreau Silencieux -- L'homme Noir.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mengi Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AMIArmik
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ArmikAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienAline
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIAndrews, Arin.
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ANDDjawadi, Ramin
Contents: Main title (1:44) -- A Lannister always pays his debts (2:51) -- Dracarys (2:53) -- I paid the iron price (3:16) -- Chaos is a ladder (2:58) -- Dark wings, dark words (2:48) -- You know nothing (3:20) -- Wall of ice (3:20) -- Kingslayer (2:11) -- I have to go north (1:23) -- White Walkers (3:21) -- It's always summer under the sea (Shireen's song) (performed by Kerry Ingram) (1:18) -- Reek...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2013
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.755 KRINosrat, Samin
Summary: Whether you've never picked up a knife or you're an accomplished chef, there are only four basic factors that determine how good your food will taste. Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat are the four cardinal directions of cooking, and they will guide you as you choose which ingredients to use and how to cook them, and they will tell you why last minute adjustments will ensure that food tastes exactly as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 NOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 NOSSrinivasan, Amia
Summary: "A work of nonfiction by philosopher Amia Srinivasan that upends the way we discuss-or avoid discussing-the problems and politics of sex"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 SRISteinsaltz, Adin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 STETobin, Amon.
Contents: Journeyman -- Piece of paper -- Goto 10 -- Surge -- Lost & found -- Wooden toy -- Mass & spring -- Calculate -- Kitty cat -- Bedtime stories -- Night swim -- Dropped from the sky.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ninja Tune 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TOBAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: "An animal that looks like a turtle munches on some grass. It has scales and a hard shell. But is it a turtle or a tortoise? Turtles and tortoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their legs, feet, shells, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be delighted as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Sprout 2022
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Summary: "You see a fin poke out of the water. It's a big gray animal with a friendly face. It looks like a dolphin, but is it a porpoise? Dolphins and porpoises are similar, but they have some important differences. Find out how their fins, mouths, teeth, and behaviors can all help you tell these two animal look-alikes apart. Filled with stunning photos and playful text, early learners will be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone 2022