Khan, Muhammad
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Dua Iqbal has always had trouble minding her own business. With a silver-tongue and an inquisitive nature, a career in journalism seems fated. When her school merges with another, Dua seizes her chance and sets up a rival newspaper, exposing the controversial stories that teachers and the kids who rule the school would rather keep buried. Dua's investigations are digging up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHATahir, Sabaa
Summary: Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TAHSummary: Rahmat the boatman navigates the increasingly brackish waters of a coastal land, collecting the heartaches and tears of its inhabitants. But he remains powerless against their misguided attempts to appease the gods and make the land green again, whether by offering a bride to the sea or forcibly "treating" the eyes of a painter who sees in different colors. Drawing firsthand on the challenges...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Global Film Initiative 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHISummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINChen, Shan Shan
Summary: On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHESummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Chau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHAMuhammad, Ibtihaj
Summary: Ibtihaj Muhammad's path to Olympic greatness has been marked with opposition and near-debilitating challenges because of her race, religion, and gender. As the only woman of color and the only religious minority on the U.S. women's saber team, she had to push past sterotypes, misconceptions, and negativity to find her own path to success and Olympic Glory. Her reflection provides an unflinching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUHAMMAD, IBTIHAJ MUHSummary: In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARChau, Chan
Summary: Kristy's family moves to a new neighborhood where the kids make fun of Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. The Baby-sitters are not going to let them get away with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BABCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Babysitters ChouMohammad, Akikur
Summary: "As compelling as it is informative and authoritative, The Anatomy of Addiction will lead you to a better understanding about the causes, prevention, and treatment of addiction. It explains in layman's terms what constitutes effective, evidence-based addiction medicine and how to find it. This book provides actionable, scientific information for addicts and their families and details how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 MOHChoy, Peter Chin Kean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7148 CHOYunus, Muhammad
Summary: After helping to save 7.5 million Bangladeshi from poverty, nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus opens a branch of his Grameen Bank in an effort to help women in Queens, N.Y., achieve their American dream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARMuhammad, Idris.
Contents: House of the rising sun -- Baia (boogie bump) -- Hard to face the music -- Theme for New York City -- Sudan -- Hey pocky a-way -- Bonus tracks (previously unreleased). Pipe stem ; I know you don't want me no more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MUHSarwar, Muhammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.122 SARSabaaneh, Mohammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SABAli, Muhammad
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, MUHAMMAD ALIMuhammad, Ibtihaj
Summary: Shares the life story of the Olympic fencer, including how she overcame feeling out of place in her sport and how she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Zaman, Muhammad H. (Muhammad Hamid)
Summary: "Superbugs, born of antibiotic resistance, are a growing global health crisis. Award-winning educator and researcher at Boston University Muhammad Zaman, Ph.D. tells the story about how we got here and what we must do to combat this threat that connects us all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9 ZAMSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERKronos Quartet
Contents: Placeless -- My ruthless companion -- My tresses in the wind -- I was dead -- Endless embrace -- Fate astray -- The sun rises -- Vanishing lines -- The might of love -- Far away glance -- Leyli's nightingales -- The color of moonlight -- Lover, go mad -- Eternal meadow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KROHa, Khanh
Summary: Mrs. Rossi's Dream tells the stories of two men in time parallel: Giang, the thirty-nine-year-old war veteran; Nicola Rossi, a deceased lieutenant in the United States Army, the voice of a spirit. From the haunting ugliness of the Vietnam War, the stories of these two men shout, cry, and whisper to us the voices of love and loneliness, barbarity and longing, lived and felt by a multitude of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2019