Summary: A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRBEnriquez, Mariana
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRNirvana
Contents: Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam -- Aneurysm -- Drain you -- School -- Floyd the barber -- Smells like teen spirit -- About a girl -- Polly -- Breed -- Sliver -- Love buzz -- Lithium -- Been a son -- Negative creep -- On a plain -- Blew -- Rape me -- Territorial pissings -- Endless, nameless.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2011
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NIRSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERKing, Morgana.
Contents: It's a quiet thing -- Dindl -- Useless landscape -- Gone with the wind -- Little girl blue -- Mountain high, valley low -- How insensitive -- Here's that rainy day -- Deep song -- If you should leave me -- Anything goes -- Nobody else but me -- I thought of you last night --- You are a story -- Don't explain -- Bee-bom ; Disc 2 You fascinate me -- The moment of truth -- The shadow of your smile...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Label M 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ King,Satrapi, Marjane
Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SATLlanos, Mariana
Summary: In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LLASatrapi, Marjane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 SATMorgana, Rowan
Summary: "Wicca centers around harmony, balance, wholeness, and a reverence for all living things. The Solitary Wicca Guide gives you the freedom to choose how you practice and where your magick takes you. You'll find spells to help you grow more enlightened every day and focus on bettering each moment through your magickal work. Build your Solitary Wicca practice with an overview of Wiccan deities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2020
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Summary: One rainy night, Princess Polly knocks on a lonely prince's palace door. But is she a real princess? The queen has a plan to find out!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cottage Door Press 2018
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Summary: Presents 250 recipes for casseroles made with seafood, poultry, meat, vegetables, pastas, grains and legumes, and cheese, and includes low-fat selections, as well as tips on making casseroles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.821 VOLPressler, Mirjam.
Summary: A lost treasure trove (6,000 documents) from her grandmother's attic about Anne Frank and her family, now woven into a chronicle. An old lady dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law, Gertrude, steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of death--she heads upstairs to the attic to sort through the effects. But Helene Elias wasn't just any old lady, and none...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: The sibling bond between seven royal sisters is tested by the worst disagreement in the history of princesses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Coh 2016Tirana, Turhan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.12 TIRSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: When Marie brings the moon into her bedroom, it scares away the monsters who have tormented her but also causes problems which only the village cats can help solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2006
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Kamali, 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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Summary: "A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry--and what to do about it. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 MAZPalova, Mariana
Summary: "¿No estás harto de tener miedo? ¿No querrías tener la certeza, pro primera vez en la vida, de que no estás loco? ¿De saber que todo lo que ves y lo que te pasa... es real?" Durante casi toda su vida, Elisse ha sido acosado por criaturas horripilantes que al parecer nadie más puede ver ni escuchar. Desesperado por huir tanto de ellas como de su pasado decide marcharse de la mística India, el...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH PALSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2004
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SATSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran--a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SATSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SATPressler, Mirjam.
Summary: Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2000
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Summary: More brittle than glass, at times stronger than steel, at other times flowing like molasses, ice covers 10 percent of the earth's land and 7 percent of its oceans. Its ebbs and flows over time have helped form the world we live in. Gosnell examines ice in plants, icebergs, icicles, and hail; sea ice and permafrost; ice on Mars and in the rings of Saturn; and several new forms of ice developed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.31 GOSLlanos, Mariana
Summary: "Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures' disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she's not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the "scary" out of monsters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2023