Summary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLISlimani, Leïla
Summary: Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed and studious, dreams of leaving Morocco to study medicine in her mother's homeland. Her younger brother, Selim, the family's errant misfit, will forge a path of rebellion among the European hippies...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLISlimani, Leïla
Summary: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLILeila
Contents: Mollie (5:20) -- Time to blow (3:07) -- Little acorns (3:29) -- Daisies, cats and spacemen (4:26) -- Mettle (4:24) -- Teases me (3:31) -- Carplos (4:21) -- The exotics (3:46) -- Deflect (4:21) -- Norwegian wood (3:34) -- Lush dolphins (4:03) -- Ur train (2:37) -- Young ones (3:23) -- Why should I? (4:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warp 2008
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MCCPunyaratabandhu, Leela.
Summary: Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand s capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture and unforgettable food they encounter along the way. Thai cuisine is more popular today than ever, yet there is no book that chronicles the real food that Thai people eat every day until now. In Bangkok, award-winning author Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 recipes that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 PUNCorman, Leela.
Summary: "A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CORLeya
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LEYCyd, Leela
Summary: Good food makes everyone feel warm and cared for, which is the very essence of hygge. This Danish way of life has been embraced by Americans who want that same sense of cozy. In Tasting Hygge, acclaimed food photographer and cookbook author Leela Cyd shares the recipes that make her happy, for cultivating moments of connection in the dining room, at the coffee table, or over a little bedside...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 CYDMcCalla, Leyla
Contents: A day for the hunter, a day for the prey / Leyla McCalla -- Les plats sont tous mis sur la table / Canray Fontenot ; arranged by Leyka McCalla -- Far from your web / Leyla McCalla -- Little sparrow / Ella Jenkins ; arranged by Leyla McCalle -- Manman / Manno Charlemagne ; arranged by Leyla McCalla -- Peze Café / traditional Haitian song ; arranged by Leyla McCalla -- Bluerunner : (instrumental)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MCCNargi, Lela
Summary: Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone Imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.089 NARFela
Contents: disc 1. Jeun ko ku (Chop 'n quench) ; Opposite people (edit) ; Highlife time ; Lover ; Viva Nigeria ; Upside down (edit) ; Egbe mi o (Carry me I want to die) ; Johnny just drop (edit) ; VIP (part 2 live in Berlin) -- disc 2. Teacher don't teach me nonsense (edit) ; Go slow (edit) ; Zombie ; Power show (edit) ; Beasts of no nation (edit) ; Shuffering and Shmiling (edit) ; Colonial mentality...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Knitting Factory Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FINNargi, Lela.
Summary: Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NARFela
Contents: Koola Lobitos 64-68. Highlife time (5:22) -- Omuti tide (3:50) -- Ololufe mi (5:16) -- Wadele wa robin (4:05) -- Laise lairo (4:11) -- Wayo (1st version) (4:41) -- The '69 L.A. sessions. My lady frustration (6:58) -- Viva nigeria (3:45) -- Obe (3:12) -- Ako (2:40) -- Witchcraft (5:25) -- Wayo (3:27) -- Lover (6:08) -- Funky horn (4:42) -- Eko (4:12) -- This is sad (5:19).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wrasse Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KutiFela
Contents: Shuffering and shmiling -- No agreement -- Dog eat dog (instrumental).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KutiNargi, Lela
Summary: Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Contents: Confusion (25:36) -- Gentleman (14:42) -- Fefe naa efe (8:12) -- Igbe (8:07).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FELFela
Contents: Fela mentality (Intro) (Fela Kuti) -- Kalakuta show (Gab & Lateef) -- Interlude: Live at Kalakuta (Fela Kuti) -- Shuffering & shmiling (Dead Prez, Talib Kewli, Jorge Ben and Bilal) -- Interlude: Gimme sh*t (Mixmaster Mike) -- Water no get enemy (Mixmaster Mike) -- Water no get enemy (D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray & The Soultronics (feat. Nile Rodgers & Roy Hargrove)) -- Gentleman (MeShell...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN REDAboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: A mysterious inheritance takes lovely Cara Martin from Boston to a ranch in West Texas, where she encounters its forceful owner, Jeth Langston.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEASales, Leila
Summary: Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALPunyaratabandhu, Leela
Summary: "60 vibrant recipes proving that Asian roadside barbecue is just as easy, delicious, and crowd-pleasing as American-style backyard grilling. Sharing beloved barbecue dishes from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia, experienced author and expert on Asian cooking Leela Punyaratabandhu inspires readers with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2020