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Contemporary classics (Cohen Media Group) Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 695 Criterion collection ; 686 Criterion collection ; 687 Criterion collection ; 688 Criterion collection ; 689 Criterion collection ; 690 Game of thrones 4 Global lens collection Reeya Rai: adventurous inventorSummary: Explore the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women trying to earn college degrees, and a chance at new beginnings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COLSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAREl-Wardany, Salma
Summary: "It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EL-WCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EL-WCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELWContents: '03 Bonnie and Clyde (Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé Knowles) (3:23) -- Bump, bump, bump (B2K and P. Diddy) (3:59) -- Jenny from the block (Jennifer Lopez) (2:48) -- Don't mess with my man (Nivea featuring Brian and Brandon Casey of Jagged Edge) (3:33) -- Luv you better (LL Cool J) (3:27) -- Air Force Ones (Nelly) (4:30) -- Made you look (Nas) (3:21) -- Beautiful (Snoop Doog featuring Pharrell and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2003
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SABSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.El-Mohtar, Amal
Summary: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers₂ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THEAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: Reeya Rai and her friend Finlay discover a priceless ivory peacock in a cave near the Roman site her parents are studying, and Reeya must come up with a way to retrieve the nearly inaccessible artefact before the greedy Dr. Acker finds it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: In Rajasthan with her archaeologist parents Reeya Rai finds an ancient stepwell, with an underwater door bearing a mysterious symbol which may be the key to a legendary treasure--if she can come up with an invention and find it before her rival Elsie Acker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMISummary: 12-year-old Hany tries to fit in at his new governmental school after his father suddenly drops dead, leaving his mother in debt and unable to continue to afford his private education. Not only is Hany clearly from a more privileged background than the working class boys in his new class, but he is also the only Christian in a room full of Muslims.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EXC(BROWN, ALAN, ET. AL.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 MICKamakawiwoʻole, Israel.
Contents: E ala e -- Ulili E -- Kaleohano -- Wind beneath my wings He Hawaii au -- Tengoku kara kaminari (Thunder from heaven) -- Kamalani -- Aloha ka manini -- Maui medley -- Hele on to kauai -- Kauai beauty -- Theme from gilligan's island -- I ke alo o Iesu -- A Hawaiian like me
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bigboy Record 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC KAMSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: Although he's set to retire and looking forward to it, Marcus agrees to help his old partner one last time to discover and stop whoever has been attemptint to assassinate Mike. Now the "old guard", they work with a new division of hotshots on the Miami PD called AMMO -- and find themselves hunting the head of the Aretas Cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BADSummary: From the 2011 overthrow of a 30-year dictator, through military rule, and culminating with the forced military removal of the Muslim Brotherhood president in the summer of 2013, we follow a group of Egyptian activists as they battle leaders and regimes, and risk their lives to build a new society of conscience. The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster. Through the news, we...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SQUKaram, Adel
Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSEl-Waylly, Sohla
Summary: "More than 200 recipes--and techniques--for cooking with creativity and confidence"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits with names that can't be spoken--the plains and forests of North America are alive with characters like these, all waiting to meet you in this collection of folklore retold in comics! This fifth volume of the "Cautionary Fables and Fairytales" anthology series features updated takes on ancient stories from tribes spanning the continent, bursting with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC WOMSummary: From Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, dictators have shaped the world we live in. How did they seize and wield power? What forces rose up against them or resisted them in secret? How did they finally come to the bitter end? This series answers those questions in six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DICSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the season begins, encouraged by the Red Wedding slaughter in the Riverlands that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats from the south, north and east?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RSummary: Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWAl-Khatahtbeh, Amani
Summary: "At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States began their invasion in Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016