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Chai Chau, Chan Edan. Khat, El Kohan, Rafi Kohan, Rhea. Kwan, Kevin Phan, Zoya. Shan, Darren. Wong, Chun HanKhan, Tawseef
Summary: Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to believe in Islam today, to have forged your beliefs and identity in the shadow of 9/11 and the War on Terror? Exploding stereotypes from both inside and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.09 KHASummary: 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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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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 CHASummary: 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.
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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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2 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 ChouChoy, 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 CHOSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: 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.
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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
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDAHa, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALe, Khang
Summary: Documents the creative process of concept design by 3 students from the Art Center College of Design under the guidance of their instructor, Scott Robinson. The concept design includes a host of intriguing places and people, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's tale "The skillfull huntsman". Discussion of ideas and techniques used to create this stunning collection of artwork between Robertson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Design Studio Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 LEEdan.
Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EdanWong, Chun Han
Summary: Party of One shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.06 WONSummary: His personal journey changed the European understanding of the world forever. This is the absorbing true story of Venetian explorer Marco Polo's arduous trek to the East, and beyond. Literally, it's the adventure of a lifetime. Sent on a mission to accompany two priests to China with the goal of converting Kublai Khan and his court to Christianity, Marco Polo finds himself left to carry on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARKhat, El
Contents: Ya raiyat -- Ptiha -- Balagh al achbaab -- Atabina part I -- Ala jina nuhayiykum -- Atabina part II -- Wahed mozawej -- Munajimin -- Al ard' amamak -- Daasa -- Marhaban ahlan -- Al ard' amamak part II
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Publisher / Publication Date: Batov Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KHAKohan, Rhea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOHShan, Darren.
Summary: "Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHAKohan, Rafi
Summary: "The American sports stadium, for all its raucous glory, is an overlooked centerpiece--a veritable temple--of our national culture. A hallowed ground for communal worship, this is where history is made on grass, artificial turf, hardwood, and even ice; where nostalgia flows as freely as ten-dollar beers; where everything thrills, from exploding fireworks to grinning cheerleaders. In The Arena,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 KOHShan, Darren.
Summary: "Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHAChai
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHAKwan, Kevin
Summary: "The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020