Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.
Summary: In this book, the author focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tugof war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: "Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the United States."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHABIR, RAJIV MOHSurendra, Rajiv
Summary: The author recalls how, after reading Life of Pi and learning that it was going to be adapted into a major motion picture, he threw himself into extensive preparations to try to land the lead role that led him around the world, and discovered himself in the face of failure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Arts 2016
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Summary: "Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama's United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large scale change, inspired by his own involvements with some of the largest humanitarian projects of our time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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Summary: "Dominated by mountains, the rugged nation of Tajikistan has a striking landscape that readers are able to examine in beautiful detail in the pages of this informative guide to one of Central Asia's most unique countries. Stunning photographs and helpful maps accompany main text and sidebars that highlight Tajikistan's government, history, geography, and culture. As readers discover what life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.6 ABAAbouzeid, Rania
Summary: This astonishing book by the prize-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid tells the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9 ABOCodell, Esmé Raji
Summary: Recounts the life of John Chapman, the legendary Johnny Appleseed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.11 CODFotuhi, Majid.
Summary: An internationally recognized neurologist presents a revolutionary brain-optimization program that, despite research to the contrary, proves that as humans get older, they can actually get smarter and increase their brain speed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: "A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ZAKChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHAChopra, Sanjiv.
Summary: Today we're barraged by a never-ending array of conflicting medical advice. Learn how to tell the difference between true medical news and irrelevant media hype.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011
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Summary: An empowering guide to cultivating confident, passionate, and powerful young leaders during the most formative stage of life: the middle school years. After years of research as a psychologist and consultant for women struggling in the professional world, Stacey Radin made a groundbreaking realization: it all begins in middle school. Women who become successful leaders learn how to do so in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Book 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.7 AminiRavin, Idan.
Summary: "Basketball's most unlikely-and most sought-after-training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he's helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he's named Rookie of the Year? Who is it that Sports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Draws on the author's Palestinian-Arab family life and her experiences as the owner of Brooklyn's Tanoreen restaurant to present a collection of Middle-Eastern recipes, including red snapper in grape leaves and cheese knafeh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Book Network 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 BISGrover, Razia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roli Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 726.209 GROKapur, Rajeev
Summary: An introduction to artificial intelligence written in plain language with numerous examples.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rinity Media 2023
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Summary: "A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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Summary: "Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux, Maori, Banda, the Buin of Melanesia, Tahitian, Hawaiian, Zuni, and Ewe. Radin examines the conditioning of thought and religion practiced among the members of each society and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NYRB Classics 2017
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Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHACodell, Esmé Raji
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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Summary: Text and mixed-media illustrations chronicle the life of the man who came to be known as Johnny Appleseed and reveal the five principles he followed that led to his legendary status in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHAChopra, Deepak
Summary: Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to the United States, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013