Janmohamed, Shelina Zahra
Summary: Serena Williams began playing tennis when she was just a child, and is now an Olympic champion who's won more Grand Slam singles titles than anyone else. Throughout her life she's battled many things, from life-threatening illnesses and sports injuries to sexism and racism in the tennis world. Now she's an icon in sport, fashion and activism, an inspiration to every young person who has dared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People WilliamsBaljeet Basra, Celina
Summary: In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: One of the most popular music series is back with a brand new installment that includes hits from Justin Timberlake, Meghan Trainor, Nick Jonas and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARPatterson, Zahra
Summary: "Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ugly Duckling Presse 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PATSelena
Contents: Si La Quieres (3:13) -- Como La Flor (Remastered Version) (3:06) -- Yo Te Sigo Queriendo (3:11) -- Que Creias (3:34) -- Las Cadenas (3:14) -- Vuelve A Mi (3:39) -- La Carcacha (4:11) -- Siempre Estoy Pensando En Ti (3:04) -- Missing My Baby (Album Version) (3:52) -- Amame (3:41) -- Buenos Amigos (4:45) -- Where Did The Feeling Go? (3:45) -- Spoken Liner Notes By The Family (Entre A Mi Mundo)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Latin (LAT) 2015
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Hankir, Zahra
Summary: "From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. The aesthetic trademark of figures ranging from Nefertiti to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Marwan, Zahra
Summary: "An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MARSelena
Contents: No quiero saber -- Baila esta cumbia -- Como la flor -- La carcacha -- Buenos amigos -- No debes jugar -- La llamada -- Amor prohibido -- No me quedo más -- Fotos y recuerdos -- El chico del apartamento 512 -- Bidi bidi bom bom -- Techno cumbia -- Si una vez -- Donde quiera que estés -- Tú, solo tú -- Siempre hace frío -- I could fall in love -- Dreaming of you -- Con tanto amor. Amor prohibido...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Latin 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SELHastings, Selina
Summary: "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEDFORD, SYBILLE HASLake, Selina.
Summary: If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can't pass an antique or secondhand store without popping in, BAZAAR STYLE is for you.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ryland Peters & Small 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home Decor LakeSelena
Contents: I Could Fall In Love (4:42) -- Captive Heart (4:24) -- I'm Getting Used To You (4:03) -- God's Child (Baila Conmigo) (4:16) -- Dreaming Of You (5:15) -- Missing My Baby (4:13) -- Amor Prohibido (2:56) -- Wherever You Are (Donde Quiera Que Estes) (4:29) -- Techno Cumbia (4:45) -- El Toro Relajo (2:20) -- Como La Flor (3:05) -- Tu, Solo Tu (3:13) -- Bidi Bidi Bom Bom (3:42) -- Spoken Liner Notes...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Latin (LAT) 2015
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Selena
Contents: I could fall in love -- Captive heart -- I'm getting used to you -- God's child (Amor prohibo) -- Wherever you are (Dondequiera que estés) -- Techno cumbia -- El Toro relajo -- Como la flor (Like a flower) -- Tú sólo tú -- Bidi bidi bom bom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Latin 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SELZara, Christopher
Summary: "For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OURContents: Girls like you / (Maroon 5) (3:35) -- Psycho / (Post Malone, featuring Ty Dolla $ign) (3:41) -- In my blood / (Shawn Mendes) (3:31) -- Delicate / (Taylor Swift) (3:52) -- IDGAF / (Dua Lipa) (3:36) -- Back to you / (Selena Gomez) (3:25) -- Growing pains / (Alessia Cara) (3:11) -- Boo'd up / (Ella Mai) (4:16) -- Everyday / (Logic & Marshmello) (3:25) -- Sit next to me (edit) / (Foster the People)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK 67Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWContents: Piece by piece (Idol version) (Kelly Clarkson) -- Love yourself (Justin Bieber) -- Hands to myself (Selena Gomez) -- Roses (the Chainsmokers featuring Rozes) -- Me myself & I (G-Eazy x Bebe Rexha) -- Pillowtalk (Zayn) -- In the night (the Weeknd) -- Out of the woods (Taylor Swift) -- Something in the way you move (Ellie Goulding) -- Don't (Bryson Tiller) -- Middle (DJ Snake featuring Bipolar...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Now 58Summary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAContents: I'm the one / (DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne -- Stay / (Zedd & Alessia Cara) -- Something just like this / (The Chainsmokers & Coldplay) -- Say you won't let go / (James Arthur) -- Castle on the hill / (Ed Sheeran) -- Believer / (Imagine Dragons) -- Slow hands / (Niall Horan) -- Bad liar / (Selena Gomez) -- Swish swish / (Katy Perry feat. Nicki Minaj) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK 63Zarr, Sara
Summary: From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZARHara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARHastings, Selina.
Summary: The best-loved stories of the Old and New Testaments are retold and brought to life with vivid and finely detailed illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2004
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220 HASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Religion HastingsZerra, Laura
Summary: "We all use a knife almost everyday, but for well-known survivalist Laura Zerra her very life often depends on the blade she takes with her into the wild. She's learned about what works and what doesn't, what steel will hold an edge, and what nuances in blade design will make or break a knife. In A Modern Guide to Knifemaking, Zerrra shares all the tips and tricks she's learned to make her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Zhang, Selina
Summary: Presents recipes, mostly featuring clear school glue and liquid starch, for colorful, non-toxic slimes, including slimes with sequins, glitter, and beads, that glow in the dark, or that can be blown to make bubbles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark 2017