Summary: Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHAAisholpan, Nurgaiv
Summary: "Eagle huntress Aisholpan Nurgaiv shares her story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People NurgaivGallagher, Tim.
Summary: The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, TIM GALAli, S. K.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnson, Terry Lynn
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Karma lives with her family at their raptor conservation center in Montana. When she has to take her beloved bird, Stark, the gyrfalcon she rescued, back to its owner, she's sorely disappointed. But things get worse when a car accident leaves her father and brother trapped. It's up to Karma--and a runaway boy named Cooper who ends up by her side--to survive the wilderness and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHWechsler, Doug.
Summary: Describes the physical traits and behavioral habits of this bird of prey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animals WechslerSummary: 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 MARNeff, Todd
Summary: "Tells the story of a laser technology that will have a big impact on society and the brilliant innovators responsible for its development"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3848 NEFOrr, Tamra
Summary: "The tiny nation of Qatar on the Arabian Peninsula has made a big impact on the world, especially economically. With large reserves of oil and natural gas, its economy is strong, and it's developed into a nation of wealth and power beyond what its size would suggest. Readers discover these facts and more as they explore the geographic, political, and cultural landscape of Qatar. With the help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 953.63 ORRSummary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 H1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV H
George, Jean Craighead
Summary: As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Olivia plants a garden / adapted by Emily Sollinger ; illustrated by Jared Osterhold -- Olivia becomes a vet / adapted by Alex Harvey ; illustrated by Jared Osterhold -- Olivia and her ducklings / adapted by Veera Hiranandani ; illustrated by Shane L. Johnson -- Olivia takes a trip / adapted by Ellie O'Ryan ; illustrated by Jared Osterhold -- Olivia goes camping / adapted by Alex Harvey ;...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN OLIRoy, Ron
Summary: Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYRiggs, Kate
Summary: "A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of falcons, Earth's fast-flying birds of prey. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why peregrine falcons are such good fliers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598 RIGShankar, Ravi
Contents: Sandhya raga -- Chase -- West eats meat -- Ragas in minor scale -- Tarana -- Tana mana -- Sadhanipa -- Friar Park -- Reunion -- Prashanti -- Shanti-mantra.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Private Music 2001
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Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATMatar, Hisham
Summary: "After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATGutman, Dan.
Summary: Famous children's author Suki Kabuki and her pet raptor, Rappy, wreak havoc during a visit to Ella Mentry School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Gutman 2007Roy, Ron
Summary: Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYFaleiro, Sonia
Summary: "The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 FALGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at falcons, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their wings, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their threatened status in the world today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.9 GISTesta, Maggie.
Summary: When Olivia discovers that her little brother Ian will be taller than her when they are older, Olivia tries to find a way to keep Ian from growing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The star of Ian Falconer's beautifully illustrated books, children know and love Olivia, an adventurous, 'can-do' 6-and-3/4-year-old pig. Olivia has an active imagination, a keen sense of humor, and a spunky, confident personality. In these programs Olivia's world, her family and friends are brought to vibrant life. Olivia encourages creativity, explores the endless possibilities for any great...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Chorion Silver Lining, Inc. 2009