Durrani, Pashtana
Summary: "Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Brach, Tara.
Summary: Presents an accessible guide to tapping inner resources to promote peace and acceptance in the face of difficult life challenges by building on the three traditional Buddhist pathways to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 BRABrach, Tara.
Summary: Dr. Tara Brach shows how feelings of shame and unworthiness are the source of many problems in relationships, careers, creative endeavors, and in spiritual unfolding. With insights from both Eastern contemplative traditions and Western psychotherapies, Dr. Brach guides listeners through a program of meditations and skills.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 BRABrach, Tara
Summary: Recognize. Allow. Investigate. Nurture. RAIN meditation is a easy-to-learn program that can help practitioners loosen the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Brach shares reflections and practices that, over time, can help you feel feeling of unworthiness and teach you to trust your own innate strength and goodness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BRABrach, Tara
Summary: "Trusting the Gold is a beautiful gem of a gift book featuring stories, teachings, and reflection prompts for readers, along with approximately 30 gorgeous illustrations by Vicky Alvarez. The book is divided into three themes--wisdom, compassion, and freedom (awareness) and is meant to serve as a balm for readers, reminding us that even when we seem to have lost sight of the gold in ourselves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 BRABrach, Tara.
Summary: Tara Brach offers listeners a collection of insights and practices for bringing compassion, clarity, and understanding to their emotional lives instead of expressing or repressing them in unhealthy ways.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.12 BRABrach, Tara.
Summary: Combining the principles of psychotherapy with the teachings of Buddhism, this guide explains how to eliminate the personal conflicts and feelings of not being good enough that can cause such problems as addiction, overwork, and perfectionism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This compilation features some of Cuba's most legendary musicians. All of them have appeared in the Buena Vista Social Club film. In addition there are some until now unreleased songs with special appearances by 75 year old Raúl Planas, Teresa García Caturla and Felix Baloy, all key figures of the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN STASummary: From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LADSummary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MICTamaki, Jillian
Summary: In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, Tamaki follows a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn't blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue. She doesn't know, she hasn't seen one.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE THESummary: Kirby Dick's provocative film investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films. Kirby looks at some of the controversial rating decisions of the past four decades, hires a private eye to find out who these anonymous raters are and puts his own film through the rating process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Genius Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THIContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN
Summary: In an alternative history, Zod is Superman's father, Batman is a vampiric Man-Bat, and Wonder Woman is the child of Ares, God of War. When these dark heroes form an alliance, the question everyone asks is: will they save the world, or rule it?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUS RATED PG-13Schwartz, Stephen.
Contents: Prepare ye the way of the Lord -- Save the people -- Day by day -- Learn your lessons well -- Bless the Lord -- All for the best -- All good gifts -- Light of the world -- Turn back, o man -- Alas for you -- By my side / lyrics by Jay Hamburger ; music by Peggy Gordon -- We beseech thee -- On the willows -- Finale -- Day by day : reprise.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GODSummary: When a corporate law office is quarantined after exposure to a dangerous virus that makes the infected lose their inhibitions, a recently fired employee and a wronged client must battle their way to the executive level before time runs out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MAYSummary: The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCSamana
Contents: Melancholy heat -- Live for the road -- The spirit moving -- The beach -- Patience -- All one breath -- Passing me by -- Leaving -- Begin again
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SAMCoelho, Joseph
Summary: UK Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents twenty tiny tales -- each one illustrated by a different artist, and each just ten words long -- in a book that's as much a work of art as an invitation to budding writers. Is it possible to spin a tale using just ten words? In this magnificent compendium, author and poet Joseph Coelho proves that it is -- with mini-stories of underwater worlds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COEBragg, Billy
Contents: Accident waiting to happen (3:59) -- Moving the goalposts (2:32) -- Everywhere (4:58) -- Cindy of a thousand lives (4:13) -- You woke up my neighbourhood (3:09) -- Trust (4:11) -- God's footballer (3:02) -- The few (3:25) -- Sexuality (3:47) -- Mother of the bride (3:34) -- Tank Park salute (3:34) -- Dolphins (3:28) -- North Sea bubble (3:17) -- Rumours of war (2:49) -- Wish you were her (2:45)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRATamaryn.
Summary: Tamaryn's music has been describes as a cross between psychedelic and dream pop.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mexican Summer 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TAMReynolds, Justin A.
Summary: While at a launch for a brand-new video game, Spider-Man must swing into action when a villain named the Stranger, who has deemed humanity lacking, manipulates the game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC REYTamaryn
Contents: I'm gone -- While you're sleeping, I'm dreaming -- Heavenly bodies -- No exits -- Prizma -- The garden -- Transcendent blue -- Afterlight -- Violet's in a pool.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kemado Records 2012