Kamaly, Hossein
Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.082 KAMContents: Called to the foreign field ; I am bound for the promised land ; Where we'll never grow old ; When they ring the golden bells ; To the work ; Do not wait 'till I'm laid beneath the clay ; The days of my childhood plays ; We shall be reunited (Alfred G. Karnes) -- Crossed old Jordan's stream (Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers) -- I am on my way to heaven (Hill Brothers with Willie Simmons) -- Music...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MOUSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: "From the fields of Pakistan through the docks of Hamburg to the halls of London's power elite, this epic drama crosses continents and cultures to portray the dark and dangerous world of international drug smuggling. The intersecting stories of vivid characters-- a British minister with a drug-addicted daughter, the wife of a German businessman whose husband is arrested for drug trafficking,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TRASummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WES'Omoumi, Hossein
Contents: Dastgâh-e homâyun (28:15) -- Avâz-e dashti (13:02) -- Dastgâh-e châhârgâh (28:44).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST NOMHossein, Robert
Summary: When her husband is killed by bandits, a woman seeks revenge and turns to an old friend for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2015
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN CEMHossain, Anushay
Summary: Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, the concept of women's healthcare hardly existed. Hossain was relieved to deliver her baby in the US. But things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor Hossain ran a fever of 104 degrees, she shook and trembled uncontrollably, and the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section. Her experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HOSHarris, Kamala
Summary: "Senator Kamala Harris's picture book memoir in which she tells her life story and shows how everyone can be a superhero"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARNair, Kamala.
Summary: When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAISummary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOHHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: A "[...] story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years--from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding--that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives--the struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOSHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARNasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Summary: "As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam's role in world affairs becomes larger, we've begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Certainly the misunderstandings and friction between Islamic civilization and the modern West continue. But even within Islam, Iran's clerics are split, militant fundamentalists clash with students from Islamic universities, moderate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 297.09 NASWilliams, Kamaal
Contents: Sometimes / Budgie -- Snitches Brew (Live in Atlanta) / Kamal Williams -- Summer madness S.A. / Karriem Riggins -- Space invader (Vocal mix) / Lord Tusk -- Buggin' out / Seiji -- Hey there / Steve Spacek -- Speed metal Jesus / Max Graef -- Two tens madam / Kaidi Tatham -- Southern freeez / Freeez -- Stuck (Original) / Peven Everett -- Sirens / Hard House Banton -- Cause I love you / Diggs Duke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC WILHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: "The spellbinding story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history-- from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy throught the horrific rule of the Taliban"--Book flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HOSKamal, Sheena
Summary: "Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin House Canada Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAMKamali, Marjan
Summary: "A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GOSKamal, Sheena
Summary: "Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent--her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can't ignore--and dark emotions she can't control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it. Finding the truth about her father's life and his violent death takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMGosselin, Kim.
Summary: When Grandpa Norman, who is addicted to nicotine, speaks to Maddie's class about the bad effects of smoking, he teaches important lessons and makes a big decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JayJo Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GOSHusseini, Suzanne
Summary: Husseini presents a mouthwatering collection of Arabian recipes celebrating the sumptuous cuisine of the Middle East. Authentic, simple, elegant and moder, these recipes encompass the colors, scents and flavors of Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Appetite by Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 HUSGhazvinian, John H. (John Hossein)
Summary: "A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021