Bronson, Po
Summary: "In Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter isprefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 660.6 BROContents: I'll come running back to you (2:10) -- Forever (2:54) -- Jesus, I'll never forget (2:37) -- Peace in the valley (2:39) -- Just another day (2:44) -- Touch the hem of His garment (2:00) -- Lovable (2:22) -- Farther away (2:27) -- Jesus gave me water (2:29) -- The last mile of the way (2:58) -- That's all I need to know (2:16) -- Any day now (2:29) -- I don't want to cry (2:42) -- I'm gonna...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES COOPanagariya, Arvind.
Summary: India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no comprehensive account of India's remarkable growth or the role policy has played in fueling this expansion. India: The Emerging Giant fills this gap, shedding light on one of the most successful experiments in economic development in modern history. Why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.954 PANGupta, Ruchira
Summary: Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GUPGupta, Suneel
Summary: We've been lead to believe that if you work hard and achieve success, happiness will follow. What do we do when this formula leaves us feeling lost, exhausted, and empty inside? Gupta delivers breakthrough habits and actionable tools that will help you rediscover your calling, follow your wildest dreams, and find the fulfillment you've been searching for all along. -- adapted from wrap-around
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2023
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Summary: "Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age. Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and cognitive decline, explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 GUPGupta, Prachi
Summary: Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take on--and defeat--a ten-term incumbent to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Now a target for the right, she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OCASIO-CORTEZ, ALEXANDRIAGRUGupta, Ruchi
Summary: "A world-renowned researcher and physician offers the first book to identify the entire spectrum of food-related health conditions, from allergy to sensitivity, and what we can do about it. Allergies are an epidemic--but they don't have to be. Every day,more than five hundred people in the US go to the emergency room following a bad allergic reaction to food; 1 in 10 people have food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 GUPGupta, Sanjay.
Summary: In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta--neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author--chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made seemingly miraculous recoveries possible--from experiments with therapeutic hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation to help wounded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellness Central 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 GUP1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.02 GUP
Contents: Gibble gobble (Willie Wright & his Sparklers) -- Broadway (Hank Ballard) -- What makes you so cold (Lulu Reed) -- My nerves (Little Willie John) -- I don't know about you (Lloyd Nolan) -- The slummer the slum (the "5" Royales) -- Where you at Jack (Little Mummy) -- That's it man (the Valentines) -- Mind your own business (Eugene Church) -- Regardless (Charles Brown) -- Here it 'tis right here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vampi Soul 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES R&BGupta, Sanjay
Summary: Drawing on his insider access to the drama's unfolding, including conversations with the world's top public health experts, the CNN chief medical correspondent and America's frontline COVID-19 health journalist shares what he's learned and how we can prepare for--or prevent--the next pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 GUPGupta, Sanjay.
Contents: Beginning the chase -- Living to 100 -- The supplement boom -- Run for your life -- Memories R us -- Taming the beast -- A growing problem -- Sunny-side up -- The future is coming -- Chasing life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Wellness 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 GUPGupta, Shalene
Summary: "A groundbreaking exploration of a debilitating disorder that's underdiagnosed and misunderstood. Most days, Shalene Gupta was the person she'd always aspired to be. She was hardworking, excelled at work, and had a long-term boyfriend who she desperately loved. Then, every month like clockwork, it all came crashing down in fits of rage and inconsolable sorrow. Work became meaningless, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 618.1 GUPAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions. This is India now. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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Adiga, Aravind.
Summary: In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind
Summary: A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Adiga 2020Adiga, Aravind.
Summary: Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize--winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration of a family saga. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) follows a poor Bengali family living in a village. The boy Apu's development grows as he witnesses the protection of family members' reputations, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN APUAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's twenty-first-century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAhmadi, Arvin.
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Scott Ferdowsi's impromptu trip to a famous professor for advice about success turns into a summer of freedom that brings him answers in unexpected places"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AHMArvin, Reed.
Summary: Relegated to a job in a seedy downtown ofice after an unfortunate affair, Jack Hammond works as a court-appointed attorney until a close friend is found murdered, a case that draws him into the world of a beautiful opera singer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARVAhmadi, Arvin
Summary: Seventeen-year-old coding prodigy Opal Hopper enters in a virtual reality contest in order to find answers about her father, who vanished seven years ago, and had close ties to the contest's billionaire founder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019