Jaouad, Suleika
Summary: An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAOSuleiman, Juna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LETUlrika Spacek
Contents: I don't know -- Porcelain -- Circa 1954 -- Strawberry glue -- Beta male -- N K -- Ultra vivid -- She's a cult -- There's a little passing cloud in you -- Airportism
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tough Love Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ULRMassi, Souad.
Contents: Ya kelbi (Oh! my heart) -- Ghir enta (I only love you) -- Ech edani (I shouldn't have fallen in love with you) -- Yemma (Mummy, I lie to you) -- Yawlidi (My little boy) --Le blen et le mal (Good and evil) -- Houria (Freedom) -- Deb (Heart broken) -- Moudja (The wave) -- Passe le temps (As time goes by) -- Theghri (I send an s.o.s.) -- Bel el madhi (The gate of the past)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wrasse Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MASJaguar Skills
Contents: Big up New York (Jaguar Skills remix) (KRS-One) -- Powaful impak! (Jaguar Skills "Props" remix) (Black Moon) -- Black Smif-N-Wessun (Jaguar Skills re-fix) (Black Moon, featuring Mad Lion & KRS-One) -- Nervous radio interlude (Jaguar Skills, featuring Mad Lion, Black Moon, Charlie Brown, Ol' Dirty Bastard) -- Take it easy (Jaguar Skills safe sex remix) (Mad Lion, featuring Funkmaster Flex & The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Hari, Daoud.
Summary: This is a harrowing memoir of how one person has made a difference: Daoud Hari helped inform the world about the genocide in Darfur. Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, traditional life was shattered when government-backed militias attacked Darfur's villages with helicopters and on horseback, raping and murdering citizens and burning villages....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 962.404 HARArash, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARADaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAODaoud, Hassan
Summary: "The Penguin" is a physically deformed young man who lives with his aging mother and father in one of the "temporary" buildings. His father spends his days on the balcony of their apartment, looking at the far-off city and pining for his lost way of life. Mother and father both find their purpose each day in worrying about the future for their son, while he spends his time in an erotic fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOMekhennet, Souad
Summary: "The journalist who broke the "Jihadi John" story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEKHENNET MEKGreene, 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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GREGreene, Jarad
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GREJadad, Alejandro R.
Summary: "A provocative manifesto that teaches you how to take control of your own health, no matter your age or circumstances-from an innovative doctor and his philosopher daughter. Dr. Alex Jadad is the creator of the Jadad scale, a methodology to assess the quality of clinical trials that has become the most widely used in the world, and Tamen Jadad-Garcia is a health entrepreneur and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 JADSummary: 17-year-old Katie Price has been sheltered since childhood with a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. During the day she is housebound, but after nightfall, Katie can venture out to the local train station and play her guitar for travelers. One night, her dreams come true when she's noticed by Charlie, whom she has secretly admired for years, and decides to hide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiSummary: "Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth. Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Elia Suleiman's critically-acclaimed satire chronicles the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: Follows the adventures of Dominic Da Vinci, coroner of Vancouver, British Columbia, as he investigates suspicious deaths along side the police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAVBarnes, Julian
Summary: Door een onverwachte erfenis wordt een middelbare man geconfronteerd met zijn niet altijd flatteuze verleden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anagrama 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FICTION BARBlack, Jack
Summary: As head of his high school's alumni committee, Dan has the idea to convince the most popular guy in school to attend the reunion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOrchestra of Syrian Musicians
Contents: Intro / The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians -- 3azely / The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians -- Wild wood / Paul Weller & the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians ft Seckou Kelta -- Yah mahla el fus'ha / Faia Younan & the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians ft Bassekou Kouyate -- Out of time / Damon Albarn & the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians -- Feel you / Julia Holter & the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians ft...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST ORCSummary: The computer-hacking, conspiracy-exposing Lone Gunmen are always looking for that next big government cover-up that would bring their newsletter, The Lone Gunman, national attention. Whether in their secret underground office or in the back of their old VW bus, this bumbling and often socially inept trio is routinely laughed at by their peers. Now with a young, idealistic new member and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LONSummary: A deadly cat-and-mouse pursuit between a former FBI agent and a diabolical serial killer. Hardy's conviction to forge a new life will be put to the test in an intense third season when a new villain emerges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOLSummary: FBI agent Don and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie, work together to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinct perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007