Leila
Contents: Mollie (5:20) -- Time to blow (3:07) -- Little acorns (3:29) -- Daisies, cats and spacemen (4:26) -- Mettle (4:24) -- Teases me (3:31) -- Carplos (4:21) -- The exotics (3:46) -- Deflect (4:21) -- Norwegian wood (3:34) -- Lush dolphins (4:03) -- Ur train (2:37) -- Young ones (3:23) -- Why should I? (4:27).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warp 2008
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Contents: 1982 -- David Copperfield -- Life is dangerous -- People like you -- 2-hearted -- Kirby's dream land -- Jonathan, I can't tell you -- My mind is yours
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIIAboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: A mysterious inheritance takes lovely Cara Martin from Boston to a ranch in West Texas, where she encounters its forceful owner, Jeth Langston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEASales, Leila
Summary: Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALCorman, Leela
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 KENMcCalla, Leyla
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MCCPunyaratabandhu, Leela.
Summary: Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand s capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture and unforgettable food they encounter along the way. Thai cuisine is more popular today than ever, yet there is no book that chronicles the real food that Thai people eat every day until now. In Bangkok, award-winning author Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 recipes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 PUNSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLICyd, Leela
Summary: Good food makes everyone feel warm and cared for, which is the very essence of hygge. This Danish way of life has been embraced by Americans who want that same sense of cozy. In Tasting Hygge, acclaimed food photographer and cookbook author Leela Cyd shares the recipes that make her happy, for cultivating moments of connection in the dining room, at the coffee table, or over a little bedside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 CYDKeila, Kamal
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KEIMcCalla, Leyla
Contents: A day for the hunter, a day for the prey / Leyla McCalla -- Les plats sont tous mis sur la table / Canray Fontenot ; arranged by Leyka McCalla -- Far from your web / Leyla McCalla -- Little sparrow / Ella Jenkins ; arranged by Leyla McCalle -- Manman / Manno Charlemagne ; arranged by Leyla McCalla -- Peze Café / traditional Haitian song ; arranged by Leyla McCalla -- Bluerunner : (instrumental)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MCCSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIMeacham, Leila
Summary: Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined: Samantha...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Meacham 2016Meacham, Leila.
Summary: Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2012
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Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOTMottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC MOTMottley, Leila
Summary: "Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Maddie runs her babysitter Janet's campaign to become mayor of their city and protect arts funding. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALNargi, Lela
Summary: Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone Imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.089 NARKienzle, Richard
Summary: "In a masterful biography laden with new revelations, veteran country music journalist/historian Rich Kienzle offers a definitive, full-bodied portrait of legendary country singer George Jones and the music that remains his legacy... Kienzle chronicles Jones's impoverished East Texas childhood as the youngest son of a deeply religious mother and alcoholic, often-abusive father. He examines his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B JONES KIECorman, Leela.
Summary: "A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2012