Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PER

Satrapi, Marjane

Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SAT

Li, Zhuqing

Summary: "Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LI

Summary: An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AND

Fremont, Helen

Summary: "Helen Fremont's bestselling memoir, After Long Silence, published in 1991 and still very much in print, vividly recounts her discovery in adulthood that her parents were not Catholics, as she thought (having herself been raised in that faith), but Jewish Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREMONT, HELEN FRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREEMONT FRE

Turke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld

Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TUR