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Summary: "Meet a handful of the men and women that helped shape the early life of Prophet Muhammad. In these pages, you will find his mother, Amina bint Wahb; the women that loved and protected him like their very own, Halimah Sa'diyyah and Barakah (Umm Ayman); and his beloved grandfather Abd al-Muttalib, alongside his uncle Abu Talib. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 ISLFarran, Sam
Summary: This gripping and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and 30-year U.S. Marine veteran as he, suffering a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen, remained loyal to America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FARRAN, SAM FARIslam, Tanwi Nandini
Summary: "At once memoir and reckoning, In Sensorium interlaces memories of childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York with a universe of memories and scent--a sensorium--while offering a critical, alternate history of South Asia from a Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. At the heart of this work is an interrogation of the ancient violence of caste, rape culture, patriarchy, war, and the inherited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISLArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARABurke, Tarana
Summary: "From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: "The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BASKERVILLE, HOWARD ASLMatar, Hisham
Summary: "After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATAR, HISHAM MATAslan, Reza.
Summary: Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.901 ASLKlam, Julie
Summary: "Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KLANeumann, Ariana
Summary: "In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into themorgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NEUCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NEUMANN NEUBailey, Issac J.
Summary: "An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In A Black Man in Trumpland, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BAIDinesen, Isak
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.8137 DINKlam, Julie.
Summary: Riotously funny and unexpectedly poignant, this is the moving tale of how one woman learned the secrets of love, health, and happiness from an unexpected source: her dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8 KLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 615.8 klaAsimov, Isaac
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASIMOV, ISSAC ASMDinesen, Isak
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1985
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 967.6 DINIsay, Dave
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: RelationIsayJawharīyah, Wāṣif
Summary: "The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem's history-Ottoman rule, the British mandate, and the run-up to the founding of the state of Israel-but change lived and recalled from the daily vantage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAWHARIYAH, WASIF JAWKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, young Afro Indigenous girl Magnolia Flower sets off on a journey in her quest to be free and connect with others, proving how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction KendiKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: "The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While wework to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENDinesen, Isak
Summary: In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artists Rights Society 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 FLAWright, Isaac
Summary: "Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022