Summary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPRacy, Ali Jihad.
Contents: The lamentations of Isis (3:01) -- The land of the blessed (6:49) -- Hymn to Osiris (6:25) -- The boat of millions of years (4:50) -- The holy lotus (3:30) -- Funeral procession (5:02) -- Hymn for sunrise (5:21) -- The triumph of the deceased (4:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyrichord 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST RACJiha, Park.
Contents: Arrival -- Thunder shower -- Easy / poem & read by Dima El Sayed -- Pause -- Philos -- Walker : in Seoul -- When I think of her -- On water
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitter beat 2018
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Contents: At Dawn -- Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans -- Light Way -- A Day In ... -- The Way Of Spiritual Breath -- Restlessly Towards -- Nightfall Dancer -- Temporary Inertia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tak:Til/Glitterbeat 2022
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Contents: Pam ŭl to wa = Throughout the night... (5:00) -- Sigan ŭi ch'ukchŏk = Accumulation of time (6:40) -- Communion (6:56) -- Tal ege sŏjŏn hae tŭrŭn sori = Sounds heard from the moon (9:05) -- Mŏrŏjin kan'gyŏk ŭi kŭrium = The longing of the yawning divide (3:17) -- All Soul's Day (9:05) -- Maju anjŭn ch'ŏt maŭm = The first time I sat across from you (with sax. version) (8:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN JIHSharon, Gilad.
Summary: Written by his youngest son, a portrait of the former Israeli prime minister draws from diaries, day books, military directives, and correspondence to trace his evolution into one of the world's most powerful and influential figures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARON, ARIEL SHARAMAZANI, JAHAN
Summary: A new revision of the classic anthology presents 195 poets and 1,596 poems representing the range of English language modern and contemporary poetry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NORTO 0000
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Arash, Jawad
Summary: "In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARAMei, Zihan
Summary: "A moving, lovely cri de coeur from a father, whose daughter has moved to another country. The sense of loss and dislocation is countered by acceptance of the child's need to move away, grow up and become herself. This book would have great resonance in the Chinese diaspora -- but also in any diaspora. The loss that is entailed in leaving home, while at the same time the recognition of why it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids, Greystone Books 2021
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Summary: "Tom and Daddy are home today. Daddy wants to clean the house and do the dishes, but Tom wants to play. Quickly they come up with a solution: together they'll try to conquer the dish monster and go on a quest in the jungle of socks. A funny and recognizable story about doing chores with Dad, which doesn't have to be boring at all."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing, Inc. 2023
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Summary: "An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛiṣhṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZIYAD, HARI ZIYEklöf, Johan
Summary: "In the tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 EKLTroïanowski, Johan
Summary: When a bored princess escapes her castle and embarks on an adventurous quest through her country, her efforts to make new friends are challenged by her disapproving royal parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC TROSuthar, Nihar
Summary: "The Hope Raisers is a deeply emotional narrative that follows Daniel, Mutura, and Lucy as they fight to transform their slum through art and skating. It inspires and educates readers on African culture, female empowerment, and creating sustainable change in developing countries"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 307.3 SUTGreene, Jarad
Summary: "A-Okay by Jarad Greene is a vulnerable and heartfelt semi-autobiographical middle grade graphic novel about acne, identity, and finding your place."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley 2021
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Summary: When humble dishwasher Darlis is mistaken for warrior icon Riqa, two troll siblings try to capture Darlis and hold him for ransom, with his best friend Mae getting caught in the mix-up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GREHarstad, Johan
Summary: Thirty-year-old Matthias, a self-effacing gardener in Stavanger, Norway, is content to be what he calls a cog, idolizing Buzz Aldrin as the second man on the moon, but he drifts farther and farther away from other people until one day he wakes up on a road in the Faroe Islands with a pocket full of money, and no memory of how he got there, and must begin to rebuild his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARRundberg, Johan
Summary: It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2023
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY COCSattouf, Riad
Summary: "In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roofof his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. Riad, delicate and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 SATShoham, Liad
Summary: "Joseph Finder hailed Liad Shoham's previous book, Lineup, as "a marvel of tight plotting, sparse prose, and relentless pacing." A young police officer's search for the truth about the murder of a young woman drives this new thriller from the #1 international bestseller"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOKrasnesky, Thad.
Summary: A rhyming text tells the story of Emmy, who uses the excuse that she is "only 3" to avoid being punished for misbehaving. Eventually the family catches on to her pouting and tantrums and she is sent to her room to ponder her behavior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flashlight Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KRAJiwa, Bernadette
Summary: "'People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1965. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret - the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIWMa, Jian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001