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 OURGhost.
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 GhostGhost
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 GHOBanksy.
Summary: From the Publisher: Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. His identity remains unknown but his work is witty, subversive and prolific. And now, he's put together the best of his work in a fully illustrated color volume.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Century 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 BANBanksy.
Summary: "This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy's most innovative pieces ever. Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once viewed as vandalism, Banksy's work is now venerated, collected, and preserved. Over the course of a decade, Martin Bull has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 BANBandi
Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BANSoosh
Summary: A girl and a mermaid become best friends as they figure out how to enjoy their favorite things together, but when the shore becomes unsafe Mermaid must leave, promising to return.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SOOGhosh, 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 GHOSoosh
Summary: "A child celebrates a close connection with her father, from how they play together and teach each other new things to how he protects her and always makes time for her"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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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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Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOGhosh, Madhushree
Summary: "Khabaar is a food memoir/narrative braiding global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration and indenture focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners asking the simple question of what it means to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. This question is braided into the author's own immigration journey...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GHOSoosh
Summary: "Whether they're playing make-believe, making you smile, or warding off monsters under the bed, dads are always there when you need them" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SOOPHISH.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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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 GHOPhish (Musical group)
Summary: Shot in breathtaking High Definition, this DVD follows the band, along with 60,000 loyal Phish fans from all over the world to IT, a two-day festival in remote Limestone, Maine, that marked the end of their summer 2003 tour.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Entertainment Group 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PHISummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007