Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OUR

Shantel.

Contents: Tell me why is it oh so hard to be so lovely -- Philosophy -- Where the story ends, life begins -- Intro -- Letter from the editor -- Ding dong ding -- I am exactly what you are looking for -- Tosca session -- I am not afraid -- Really good photo --

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Studio K7, Essay Recordings 2000

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Shame

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHA

Noor

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NOO

Beah, Ishmael

Summary: "A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Beah, Ishmael

Summary: "A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beah 2014

Beah, Ishmael

Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEA

Beah, Ishmael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEA

Silbernagel, Shantel

Summary: "With limited resources for hopeful home birth parents, the unknowns can feel overwhelming. The Many Faces of Home Birth fills that void for knowledge by providing a rare glimpse into the private moments of twenty-five unique and modern home births from around the world. With honesty, humor, and confidence, these personal narratives and shared experiences leave readers with the understanding...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618 SIL

Boteach, Shmuel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.6 BOT

Reid, Elwood

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REI

Elnoury, Tamer

Summary: It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELNOURY, TAMER ELN

Boteach, Shmuel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.77 BOT

Dymott, Elanor

Summary: "On the death of the celebrated photographer Max Hollingbourne, his daughter, Ruthie, returns to his villa in Greece after fifteen years in exile. The youngest and estranged member of a once close-knit London family, Ruthie is haunted by a dark secret from her childhood, one that fractured her family and drove her mother to madness. Still, following her father's death, she and her older sister,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYM

Beah, Ishmael

Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEA

Reed, Ishmael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REE

Noor

Summary: Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOOR, QUEEN Noor

Boteach, Shmuel.

Contents: Why we need eroticism now -- The midlife orgasm -- Innocence -- Novelty -- The chase -- Forbidden-ness -- Opposites attract -- Reckless abandon -- Unquenchable yearning -- Beyond the body -- Masculine and feminine in Eastern and Kabbalistic thought -- Kosher tantric sex -- Worshipping the feminine -- Bringing the erotic to the everyday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.9 BOT

Dean, Jamael

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ DEA

Hitchcock, Elwood

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dome Press 1998

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 974.7 HIT

Hammel, Laury.

Contents: Customer and community first -- Values-based financing -- Partnering with your employees -- Business networking for local value -- Creating partnerships with non-profits -- Making sustainability your competitive advantage -- Collaborating with government -- Building a bridge to the future.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 HAM

Bloor, Edward

Summary: Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLO

Chick Endor

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro,Bernstein 1925

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