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Aftab, Arooj Awad, Amal Azad, Nafiza Azad, Yasmin Cohen, Rich Cudi, Azad Herzog, Brad Kid Cudi Raza, AzraCudi, Azad
Summary: "A gripping narrative by an Iran-born Kurdish journalist who joined the ranks of the Kurdish army as a sniper in the fight against ISIS. In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, Azad deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.91 CUDSummary: Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HALSummary: Primatologist Davis shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. When a greed-fueled corporation's genetic experiment goes awry, George and other animals across the country are mutated into aggressive super creatures that rampage the city. In an adrenaline-filled ride, Davis tries to find an antidote to not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rampage 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaSummary: When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAMHerzog, Brad
Summary: For 108 years, fans of Chicago Cubs baseball suffered every playofff season, with mishap after mishap each being traced back to 1945 when a friendly goat was kicked out of a World Series game. But the 2016 season felt different. Would this finally be the year that the Billy Goat Curse was reversed? Author Brad Herzog tells the story of the curse's origin and follows the Cubs right through that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWASummary: Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARTSummary: A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISSummary: Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GABSummary: A trio of cows - Maggie, Mrs. Calloway and Grace - hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions, the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOMSummary: Demonstrations of both traditional and modern bellydancing by Bellyqueen and others. Learn to improvise and dance either alone or with a partner. Provides a low-impact fitness workout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firstars 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 BELSummary: Since first donning a tattered fedora and a glove of eviscerating blades in 1984, Robert Englund has become one our generation's most beloved horror icons. A classically trained actor and talented director, Englund has starred in many well-received movies in the years since Freddy's cinematic birth as well as directing his own feature film.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC HOLKid Cudi
Contents: Act I : the world I am ruling. Scott Mescudi vs. the world (featuring Cee-Lo) ; Revofev -- Act II : a stronger trip. Don't play this song (featuring Mary J. Blige) ; We aite (Wake your mind up) ; Marijuana ; Mojo so dope -- Act III : party on. Ashin' kusher ; Erase me (featuring Kanye West) ; Wylin' cuz I'm young ; The mood -- Act IV : the transformation. Maniac (featuring Cage, St. Vincent) ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KIDAzad, Nafiza
Summary: Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her whenshe was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AZAKid Cudi
Contents: Beautiful trip -- Tequila shots -- Another day -- She knows this -- Dive -- Damaged -- Heaven on Earth -- Show out (feat. Pop Smoke and Skepta) -- Solo dolo, pt III -- Sad people -- Elsie's baby boy (flashback) -- Sept. 16 -- The void -- Lovin' me (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) -- The pale moonlight -- Rockstar knights (feat. Trippie Redd) -- 4 da kidz -- Lord I know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KIDAzad, Nafiza
Summary: After Paheli escapes a terrible fate, a magical boy gives her access to the Between, allowing her to collect other women of color, hurt by men, and lead them when the boy is in peril. Paheli was once betrayed by her mother and sold to a man in exchange for a favor. When Paheli escapes, she runs headlong into a boy with stars in his eyes. This boy, as battered as she is, tosses Paheli a box of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AZARaza, Azra
Summary: We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.99 RAZAzad, Nafiza
Summary: Croi is compelled by a summoning spell leave her home in the Wilde Forest and travel into the Otherworld, where the enchantment that made her into a brownie begins to break, revealing her true identity, her hidden magick, and her forgotten heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AZACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AZACohen, Rich
Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.357 COHAzad, Yasmin
Summary: This sharply insightful memoir depicts a young Muslim girl's struggle to balance the traditions of a loving yet conservative father, who wants to keep her safe, against the more liberal Westernized Sri Lankan world outside. This memoir provides a glimpse into the microcosmic Galle Fort Muslim community of the 1960s post independent Sri Lanka. -- from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perera-Hussein Publishing House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AZAD, YASMIN AZARaza, Azra
Summary: A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 RAZSummary: Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EmKid Cudi
Contents: Entergalactic theme -- New mode -- Do what I want -- Angel -- Ignite the love -- In love -- Willing to trust (feat. Ty Dolla Sign) -- Can't believe it (feat. 2 Chainz) -- Livin' my truth -- Maybe so -- Can't shake her (feat. Ty Dolla Sign) -- She's lookin' for me -- My drug -- Somewhere to fly (feat. Don Toliver) -- (Bonus track) Burrow (feat. Don Toliver, Steve Aoki and Dot da Genius)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KIDKid Cudi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2024