Hara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARLala Lala (Musical group)
Contents: Destroyer -- Spy -- Water over sex -- I get cut -- Dove -- Dropout -- The flu -- Copycat -- Scary movie -- Moth -- When you die -- See you at home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LALARCA
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCVarious artists
Contents: Dreamworld : Marco de Canaveses / David Byrne + Caetano Veloso -- O cara lindo (Mr. Gorgeous) / Smoke City -- Mulemba xangóla / Bonga + Marisa Monte + Carlinhos Brown -- Sobi esse pano, mano / General D + Funk 'n Lata -- Nha vida / Lura -- Coral / Moerno Veloso + Sadjo Djolo Koiate -- Fado hiláqrio / k.d. lang -- Os dias são à noite (Suso Saiz remix) / Madredeus -- Interlude : DJ Wally + Lura...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bar None 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN REDArca
Summary: Arca's third full-length album is the first to feature the Venezuela-born, London-based producer's untreated singing voice. He sings in Spanish, the language of his childhood home, Venezuala. It stands as a defiant, delicate statement of intent, and cements his position as one of this turbulent decade's defining musicians.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCFara, Patricia.
Summary: In this book the author rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Aiming not just to provide information but to make people think, it explores how science has become so powerful by describing the financial interests and imperial ambitions behind its success. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 FARKlara, Robert.
Summary: "In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president's home where he was buried. It passed with darkened windows; few gave thought to what might be happening aboard. A closer look inside the train, however, would reveal a Soviet spy about to leak a state secret, a newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 KLALira Singers
Contents: Suita Maryjna. Bogurodzica ; Już od rana rozśpiewana ; Serdeczna Matko ; Chwalcie ła̧ki umajone ; Pod twoja obronę ; Cześć Maryi ; Totus tuus ; Pieśń do Matki Bożej Fatimskiej ; Apel Maryjny -- Gaude Maria virgo -- Three hymns to texts by Pope John Paul II. Uwielbienie Eucharystii ; Królowo Polski ; Modlitwa za Polskę -- Zdrowaś Maryjo -- Hail Mary/Zdrowaś Maryjo -- Królowej anielskiej...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lira Ensemble 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS LIRMcFarlane, Zara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCFZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHLynn, Lera
Contents: Same old song (with Peter Bradley Adams) -- Lose myself (with John Paul White) -- What is love (with Dylan LeBlanc) -- Breakdown (with Andrew Combs) -- Crimson underground (with Rodney Crowell) -- Wolf like me (with Shovels & Rope) -- Nothin to do with your love (with JD McPherson) -- In another life (with Nicole Atkins) -- Almost persuaded (with John Paul White).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LYNRaheem, Zara
Summary: To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of "Mr. Perfect," even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAHZgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHBstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho
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Publisher / Publication Date: Snow Lion Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 DALAuerbach, Lera
Summary: "This deeply imaginative and entertaining poetry collection details the pleasures of the orchestra, from strong-willed A to satisfied Z"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE AUEDon, Lari
Summary: "Every loch in Scotland, however beautiful, has its cold, dark depths. And every loch in Scotland has its kelpie. But it's easy to forget those dangers on a sunny afternoon..." Flora is playing with her brothers and sisters by the loch when she notices a stunning white horse. While her siblings clamour for a chance to ride the beautiful animal, Flora is worried. Where has this strange horse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edinburgh Picture Kelpies, an imprint of Floris Books 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DONLarg, Alex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RotoVision 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 LARMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCAThomas, LaLa
Summary: Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High-- until she gets pregnant. Having a baby at sixteen was definitely not part of the plan. Kelly's plan was to dominate junior year grade-wise and on the basketball court, so she can get an athletic scholarship. She intends to be a good auntie, and help Erykah through the pregnancy. Along the way they'll learn some harsh realities about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOZara, Christopher
Summary: "For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Contents: Ode to Kumina -- Pride -- Fussin' and fightin' -- Peace begins within -- Stoke the fire -- Freedom chain -- Riddim interlude -- Allies or enemies -- In between worlds -- Silhouette (feat. Shabaka Hutchings) -- Fisherman -- Ode to Cyril.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCFSteinberg, Laya.
Summary: Thesaurus Rex's misadventurous day is described in a variety of synonyms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STEVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022