Summary: Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, The Sultan and The Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SULAbrahams, Kyria.
Summary: A stand-up comedian who was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness describes how her childhood was haunted by perpetual doomsday prophecies about an imminent apocalypse in which her non-believing neighbors and schoolmates were doomed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.9 ABRMcCauley, Kyrie
Summary: After a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives an invitation from Alice Lovelace-- an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin's mother-- offering a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family's coastal Maine estate. Alice's girls are peculiar: Thea buries her dolls one by one, hosting a series of funerals; Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCMcCauley, Kyrie
Summary: "After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2020
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Summary: Comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history, and culture of the Islamic world in a single, scholarly volume. Features over 1400 fully revised entries including a wide range of new entries covering the contemporary Islamic scene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.03 GLAPahinui, Cyril
Contents: Hili E/E Lili'u E (3:56) Wai Ulu (6:05) Lei 'Ohu (4:31) Lihu'e (3:15) E Mama Ea (4:47) Hawaiian Cowboy (3:01) Inikiniki Malie (Gentle pinches of the Wind)(vocal) (3:06) Lei No Ka'iulani (2:16) LBC Slack key (3:12) Coquette (3:40) E Nihi Ka Hele (vocal) (6:08) Wai'alae (3:06) Kela Mea Whiffa/Hilo March (3:38) Hula O Makee (4:40) Hilo Hanakahi (5:16) Ku'u Lei (5:37)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dancing Cat 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC PAHSummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARCanac, Sybil
Summary: "You think you know Paris inside out? Then let yourself be surprised by this book! Written by three true connoisseurs, it tells you the secrets of the city. Curiosities, secret gardens, unknown museums, arts centers or very special hotels--with this book you discover Paris off the beaten path, its hidden treasures, its legends, its stories."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emons Verlag GmbH 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 FRANCE CANEl'Zabar, Kahil
Contents: Love outside of dreams -- Song for a new South Africa -- Song of myself -- Nia -- Meditation for the celestial warriors -- The ebullient duke -- Fred -- One world family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ EL'ZLavigne, Avril.
Contents: He wasn't; (3:16) --; My happy ending; (3:56) --; Sk8er boi; (3:37) --; Don't tell me; (3:38) --; Take me away; (2:55) --; Nobody's home; (3:42).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAVLavigne, Avril.
Contents: Girlfriend -- I can do better -- Runaway -- Best damn thing -- When you're gone -- Everything back but you -- Hot -- Innocence -- I don't have to try -- One of those girls -- Contagious -- Keep holding on.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAVDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMJames, Syrie.
Summary: Discovering a letter written by Jane Austen inside of an old book, Samantha investigates the letter's suggestions about a possible undiscovered manuscript and searches the historical home of handsome Anthony Whitaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMKurin, Richard
Summary: A literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KURMcBride, Karyl.
Summary: "Author of the bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers Dr. Karyl McBride draws on her expertise in treating children and partners damaged by narcissists in this practical new guide to divorce and its aftermath. With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 MCBAlrawi, Karim
Summary: "Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgettable characters--fishermen and date merchants, child cooks and squabbling animals, beggars and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALRBjørnstad, Ketil
Contents: La notte: I -- La notte: II -- La notte: III -- La notte: IV -- La notte: V -- La notte: VI -- La notte: VII -- La notte: VIII.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BJOEdwards, Sybil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David & Charles 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.7 EdwardsLavigne, Avril
Contents: Cannonball -- Bois lie / feat. Machine Gun Kelly -- Bite me -- Love it when you hate me / feat. Blackbear -- Love sux -- Kiss me like the world is ending -- Avalanche -- Déjà vu -- F.U. -- All I wanted / feat. Mark Hoppus -- Dare to love me -- Break of a heartache.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAVRyrie, Alec
Summary: "Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 RYRNelson, Cyril I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich House 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 NELSummary: Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Practically perfect Pintro the robot learns how to create art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024