Summary: Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: 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 OURSummary: A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WRIGhazal.
Contents: Fire in my heart -- Pari Mahal -- Besh'no az nay.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST GHAGhazal.
Contents: My eyes, my heart (15:10). -- Between dawn and dawn a new truth (21:21). -- Snowy mountains (8:55). -- Traces of the beloved (27:06).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST GhazaGhost
Contents: See no evil -- Jesus he knows me -- Hanging around -- Phantom of the opera -- We don't need another.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GHOGhost.
Contents: Moungod radiant youth -- Guru in the ecno -- Under the sun -- Moungod asleep -- Freedom -- Rakshu -- Blood red river -- Orange sunshine -- Giver's chant - Sun in tangging.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: P.S.F. Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GhostGlobal Communication.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GLOHall, Shyima.
Summary: Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. An anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima's servitude-but her journey to true freedom was far from over. A volunteer at her local police department, Hall is passionate about helping to rescue others who are in bondage....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, SHYIMA HalHall, Shyima.
Summary: The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slaves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HALSelvadurai, Shyam
Summary: The comic tale of growing up gay in Sri Lanka. The protagonist is Arjie, a member of a wealthy family who is considered funny because he likes to wear saris, play with girls, and hates sports. A look at homosexuality in the Orient and life in an extended family. The author is a Sri Lankan from Toronto.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SELRosal, Patrick
Summary: "New poems by Patrick Rosal, along with generous selections from his first four collections"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ROSCerberus Shoal
Contents: Grandsire -- A cloud no bigger than a man's head -- Bogart the change -- Shaky bull -- Me and my dead head: Baby gal -- Me and my dead head: Train car nursery -- Tekel Upharsin -- Nonex -- Marimus -- A head no bigger than a man's cloud.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: North East Indie 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CERBhogal, Ravinder
Summary: "Comfort and Joy is a fresh take on vegetarian and vegan cooking; not geared towards health or denial but indulging all the senses with a decadent global larder. This is a cookbook of great bounty, promising fortifying curries and stews, the warm embrace of aromatic fried bhajis and rich, satisfying desserts. For Ravinder Bhogal, food should be made and shared with abundance in mind, and this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Goyal, Nikhil
Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOYGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOHuddersfield Choral Society
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS HUDGhosh, Amitav
Summary: From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage. This is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav
Summary: When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Ghost Box
Contents: Farmer's angle -- Wildspot -- The eleventh house -- Warm air -- Your stories -- Hither and you
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Belbury Poly
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BELGhost Power
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GHOGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1995