Aftab, Arooj
Contents: Baghon main (feat. Darian Donovan Thomas) -- Diya hai (feat. Badi Assad) -- Inayaat -- Last night -- Mohabbat -- Saans lo -- Suroor -- Udhero na (feat. Anoushka Shankar).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN AFTAlsaid, Adi.
Summary: A wealthy dual citizen of Mexico and the United States rebels against his family's strict plans for his future in the aftermath of his older brother's tragic death, an event that compels him to secure a job with his favorite celebrity chef, a relationship that becomes complicated when he falls for his boss's daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSAlsaid, Adi
Summary: James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn't be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually... a button. Which she presses. Which may or may not unwittingly break...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALSAlsaid, Adi
Summary: "Isabel is having an existential crisis. She's three years into high school, and everything she's learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet--a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSAlsaid, Adi
Summary: During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSSummary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURSummary: An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COMSummary: Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OMAFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMGood Sad Happy Bad
Contents: Do it -- Blessed -- Star -- Honey -- Believe it-- This skin -- Reaching -- Bubble -- Shades --Taking -- Pyro --Universal
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Textile
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GOOContents: Fukaki umi no kanata (Yoshida Brothers) -- Koyal (Nitin Sawhney) -- Ja nam (Ancient Future) -- Oceans of ecstasy (Deepak Chopra) -- Campuhan (Blue Asia feat. Yoichi Ikeda) -- Angels of the island (Bali Lounge) -- Space in... (Nataraj XT) -- Funky guru (Prem Joshua) -- Eastern journey (Biddu Orchestra) -- Water down the Ganges (Prem Joshua & Manish Vyas) -- Dreams of happiness (Xcultures feat....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ASISummary: During the Iran-Iraq war, an aging Iranian-Kurd musician hears that his wife, a singer with a magical voice, who deserted him for his best friend and fled to Iraq, is in trouble. He cons his two sons into accompanying him on the search and they embark on an adventure filled with music, romance and danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARBandi
Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BANSummary: Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVIAssad, Sergio.
Contents: [Cronica da casa assassinada]. Trem para Codisburgo ; Chora coração / Antonio Carlos Jobim -- Scaramouche. Brazileira / Darius Milhaud -- Suite bergamasque. Menuet / Claude Debussy -- Laranjeiras / Clarice Assad -- Tahhiyya li ossoulina / Sérgio Assad -- [Cronica da casa assassinada]. Jardim abandonado ; Milagres e palhaços / A.C. Jobim -- [Light in the piazza]. Octet / Adam Guettel -- Arcos da...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ASSSummary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THUSummary: It's 40 years after killer Michael Myers wreaked his havoc on Halloween night. Laurie Strode remembers the horrific event from her first-hand experience of it all. Although Myers has been imprisoned, Strode has been preparing herself for the chance that he'll somehow get out to embark on another killing spree. When Myers does, Strode will be ready to try to end the killer's murderous ways, once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HALSummary: Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HALSummary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAR3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie BarbieContents: Dastgah of Mahour (Ahmad Ebadi, setar) (9:18) -- Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Mohamad Heydari, santour) (7:33) -- Avaz of Afshari (Asghar Bahari, kamancheh) (3:10) -- Dastgah of Shour (Khatereh Parvaneh, voice) (10:51) -- Dastgah of Chahargah (Houshang Zarif, tar) (4:42) -- Dastgah of Homayoun (Hassan Kassayi, nei) (4:24) -- Dastgah of Segah (Ali Tajvidi, violin ; Nasser Effetah, drum ; Hossein...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST CLAMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNBadawi.
Contents: Critical Combustion -- War On Mt. Zion -- Rhythmic Flux -- Yashar -- Den Of Dreams -- Jihad -- Soldier of Midian -- Tall King Dub -- Alien Encounter -- Return of the Giant Fruit Flies -- Kill The Messenger -- Semetic Stepper -- Cooper's Corner -- Mt. Zion Dub -- Bedouin Interlude -- Ocean of Tears.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reachout International Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BadawBaio
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021