Summary: "Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COURajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DESDesai, Kiran
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DESDesai, Sara
Summary: "Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a free-spirited lawyer who is determined to find the perfect match for the grumpy bachelor at her cousin's wedding. After a devastating breakup, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She puts her energy into building her career and helping her friends find their happily ever afters. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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Contents: Ride -- 5 out of 6 -- Fire drills -- Velodrome -- Good grief -- Boy crazy -- Jumprope -- Shrimp -- Half of you -- Say when -- I Hope I'm wrong.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Doomtree Records, LLC 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP DESDesai, Panache
Summary: You Are Enough offers a straightforward, non-judgmental, and approachable process of revealing the soul, of coming into alignment and harmony with our true selves. Combining personal narrative, clear and inspiring philosophy, and prescriptive practices, it reveals that the way through is the way in—that the way through fear, self-doubt, and anxiety is accepting and embracing dissonance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.4 DESDesai, Sara
Summary: "To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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Summary: In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DESDesai, Kishwar.
Summary: In a small town in northern India, a house still smolders from a devastating fire. Inside a young girl is found severely beaten and barely alive, along with the lifeless bodies of thirteen people. Inexplicably, the local police accuse the girl of the murders. But Simran Singh, an independent-minded, unconventional social worker, is convinced of the girl's innocence. As Simran goes against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KESMoore, Denai
Contents: Let it happen -- Desolately devoted -- Trickle -- Twilight -- Do they care? -- Leave it up to you -- Bring you shame -- Does it get easier? -- Poor person -- All the way.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOOSummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATDekel, Mikhal
Summary: "The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DEKDemi.
Summary: When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEMDemi.
Summary: Presents an illustrated biography of Joan of Arc, from her early vision of Archangel Michael to her military victories, and eventual execution at the stake for heresy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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Summary: The Harvard Business School professor draws upon literature, film, philosophy, and history to argue that, at the core of finance and financial practices, there is a place for principles, ethics, and humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 DESDeSaix, Deborah Durland
Summary: Forced to flee the Nazi Army, Jewish families found a safe haven in a small town in Le Chambon, France, where a community of Protestants, having once been persecuted for their religion, sympathized with their struggle and did all they could to hide them from the invaders that sought to do them harm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 DeSaiDemi.
Summary: Recounts pivotal events in the history and life of Saint Nicholas, including how he came to be associated with Christmas and Santa Claus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday DemiDemi.
Summary: Describes the life and journeys of the Italian trader who became famous for his travels in Asia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 915.04 DEMDemi
Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANDemi.
Summary: With the aid of his magical horse, Ptitsa, a young archer fulfills the increasingly difficult requests of Tsar Ivan and wins the hand of Princess Vassilissa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1994
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