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Summary: "For fans of Valeria Luiselli and Mohsin Hamid comes a fresh new perspective on coming-of-age as a Pakistani Muslim in rural America. "This is a fearless, exacting, essential work, and marks the debut of a thrilling new global voice."-Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl. On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AZISummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Summary: Examines the long career of the Grateful Dead featuring new interviews with the surviving members of the group and never-before-seen footage of the group's performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXSummary: 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 East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARCopies Available at Interlochen
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3 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSrinivasan, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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Summary: The mighty warrior god Thor does battle against the evil Loki who plots to destroy the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Invincible Pictures 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THOCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOLZ, ALIA VOLAmin, Jahirul
Summary: "Anatomy for Artists presents an extensive visual reference guide to the human form for artists of all abilities and mediums. Over 240 specially commissioned photographs capture every detail, from muscle definition and bony landmarks to a valuable catalogue of postures and poses. Every photograph is overlaid with musculature, planar, and contour diagrams... Detailed diagrams reveal the inner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 3DTotal Publishing 2020
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 743.4 AMIChaudhuri, Amit
Summary: A young Indian university student and his bachelor uncle spend the day wandering through London, as they cope with their own alienation, loneliness, and the difficulties of daily life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUAmis, Kingsley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIChaudhuri, Amit
Summary: Three novels by an Indian writer, featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party, in Afternoon Raag he is an Indian student in Oxford, and in A Strange and Sublime Address he is a small boy visiting family in Calcutta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAVictoria, Adia
Summary: Two years after the release of her critically acclaimed debut Beyond the Bloodhounds, Nashville-based modern blues woman Adia Victoria returns. The album was recorded with Aaron Dessner (The National) at his studio in upstate New York. Throughout the album's twelve tracks, Victoria brings the topics of mental illness, drug addiction, sexism, and all the elements that consume the day-to-day...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICAhlborn, Ania
Summary: "--a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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Contents: Home at last -- Mal-mal -- Name droppin' -- Unconditional love -- Rill-rool -- Blues for Jackito -- Alma -- Sunset -- Stride by stride -- Junk
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Origin Records 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FRIGuttfreund, Amir
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HUSKatwala, Amit
Summary: Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley. The inventors, John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 KATSzado, Ania.
Summary: In fashion-driven 1940s New York, ambitious fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle falls for French expatriate writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, while the author's estranged Salvadoran wife, Consuelo, is determined to win him back at all costs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SZAVictoria, Adia.
Contents: Lonely avenue -- Dead eyes -- Out of love -- Mortimer's blues -- Sea of sand -- And then you die -- Howlin' shame -- Horrible weather -- Headrot -- Invisible hands -- Stuck in the south -- Mexico blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICAnne Campbell Old Air
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Evening News Ass/n.,Det. 1927
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMAmin, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIAmis, Kingsley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1989