Islam, Farhana
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 FARSummary: It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MRS.Issa, Islam
Summary: An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRIslam, Yusuf
Contents: Blackness of the night (2:59) -- See what love did to me (3:44) -- The laughing apple (3:02) -- Olive hill (2:44) -- Grandsons (3:03) -- Mighty peace (2:18) -- Mary and the little lamb (3:35) -- You can do (whatever)! (3:10) -- Northern wind (death of Billy the Kid) (2:41) -- Don't blame them (3:39) -- I'm so sleepy (2:19).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLIslet
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLIslam, Yusuf
Summary: The latest album from the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: YA Music/Yusuf 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ISLNayani, Farzana
Summary: Nayani gives caregivers the tools for exploring race with their children. She offers practical guidance on how to initiate conversations; consciously foster racial identity development; discuss issues like microaggressions, intersectionality, and privilege; and intentionally cultivate a sense of belonging. In providing an overview of key issues and current topics relevant to raising multiracial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 NAYIslam, Yusuf
Contents: Wild world (3:19) -- Oh very young (2:35) -- Can't keep it in (2:59) -- Hard headed woman (3:47) -- Moonshadow (2:48) --Two fine people (3:32) -- Peace train 3:44) -- Ready (3:13) -- Father & son (3:38) -- Sitting (3:11) -- Morning has broken (3:17) -- Another Saturday night (2:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1975
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK STEAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLHajali, Issam.
Contents: Ana Damir El Motakallim (11:42 min) -- Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard (3:27 min) -- Khobs (3:31 min) -- Lam Azal (3:36 min) -- Ada (4:58 min) -- Yawma Konna (4:34 min) -- Intazirne (3:13 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST HAJSummary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BarbieCopies Available at Woodmere
6 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDAslam, Nadeem
Summary: "A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARZia, F. (Farhana)
Summary: "Lali finds a feather in the field. Is little feather lost? Lali sets out to find feather a home." --
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ZIADewar, Isla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUTynion, James
Summary: "All the world's a stage ... but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic--literally! The Backstagers are back in (stage) blacks, for a festive collection of Valentine's Day and Halloween stories! Join Jory and the rest of the Backstagers as they wrestle with anti-Valentine crusades, totally creepy phantoms (NOT of the opera), and the everpresent magic of the backstage world in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TYNIsham, Mark.
Contents: At first sight (3:11) -- Simple touch (2:43) -- This is what beautiful looks like (1:53) -- Seeing celebration (1:56) -- To share a feeling (1:34) -- Seeing journey (2:40) -- You don't see me (3:35) -- This look I love (2:35) -- Our eyes aren't what make us see (3:54) -- Love is where you are (Gigi Worth) (5:38) -- Kiss to build a dream on (Louis Armstrong) (3:00) -- It never entered my mind...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ATIsham, Mark.
Contents: A river runs through it.--Casting Presbyterian style.--A land filled with wonder.--Down the alley (with you).--A summer of lumber and fishing.--Shooting the chutes.--Three fisherman.--A trip to the unknown.--A four-count rhythm.--The sheik of Araby.--Bye bye blackbird.--Je ne sais quois.--Swing me high, swing me low.--A place remembered.--A remark was passed.--Rugged cross /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC RIVFarland, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC 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