Khashoggi, Nabila
Summary: Spartan and friends travel to the Kingdom of Bhutan in Book 4, The Poachers of Tiger Mountain. The travelers arrive at a village hosting a lively archery tournament as part of a Bhutanese festival. They make new friends who invite them to join the feast and watch the performance. Soon the group discovers that poachers have killed off many of the tigers that used to thrive in Bhutan, and now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Full Cycle Publications 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KHAHabila, Helon
Summary: Reluctantly leaving America when his wife is given a prestigious fellowship in Berlin, a Nigerian grad student struggles with the suffering of the African refugees and immigrants he encounters in his new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group. Most were never heard from again. Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of this tragedy that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2016
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Summary: Zubi, a happy Bangladeshi girl, is excited about her first day of school, but at breakfast she is puzzled by her mother and older sister worrying about being "too big," and even at school she hears other people criticizing each other's bodies, and she starts to worry that maybe something is wrong with how she looks--until her declaration at dinner that she is on a diet makes her family realize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ATP Records 2018
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Summary: "Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHAShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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Contents: Shameless -- Living proof -- Should've said it -- Señorita (with Shawn Mendes) -- Liar -- Bad kind of butterflies -- Easy -- Feel it twice -- Dream of you -- Cry for me -- This love -- Used to this -- First man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Contents: Betty -- Zora -- Giovanni -- Sonia -- Frida -- Eartha -- Miles -- Muddy -- Basquiat -- Sun Ra -- Octavia -- Baldwin -- Betty (For Boogie).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WOOAzad, Nafiza
Summary: Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her whenshe was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AZAIqbal, Nabihah
Contents: Eden piece -- Something more -- Saw u twice -- In visions -- Alone together -- Zone 1 to 6000 -- Feels so right -- New new eyes -- Slowly -- Eternal passion -- Untitled Friday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ninja Tune 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC IQBShamsie, Kamila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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Summary: After Paheli escapes a terrible fate, a magical boy gives her access to the Between, allowing her to collect other women of color, hurt by men, and lead them when the boy is in peril. Paheli was once betrayed by her mother and sold to a man in exchange for a favor. When Paheli escapes, she runs headlong into a boy with stars in his eyes. This boy, as battered as she is, tosses Paheli a box of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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Summary: A team of young agents use their math skills to save the day when trouble arises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2016
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Summary: "It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is...but war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. For there is a dark force growing in Otera--a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. And with her own gifts changing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if so, can it be found? In search of answers to these questions, an assortment of archaeologists heads for a remote area of Egypt, where they work with local villagers to excavate a promising site. Interspersed with the testimony of the early medieval calligrapher who created the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2008
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Summary: "A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWShamsie, Kamila
Summary: July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atavist Books 2014
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Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: When the Odd Squad is in danger of being disbanded because a rival agency has a gadget that seemingly fixes any problem, the Odd Squad teams up to save the world from destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2017
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Contents: Cat -- Jealousy birds -- Key -- Howling at the moon -- Ends at three -- Risk -- Stars -- Burning -- California -- Gravity -- Pajamas and polaroids -- Tortoise -- Life in space -- Smile.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CD Baby 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DAVDavila, Ben.
Contents: Heart and joy -- Cabin fever -- Cloud of dots -- April -- Gold -- Decisions -- Take it down -- Turkey -- Hindsight -- Thief -- Radio -- Kiss -- Call of the void -- Mule -- Lighthouse -- Brightest light -- Kindness and love - Life
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rock Stop Studios 2013
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Contents: Bugs -- Tiny garden (feat. Duendita) -- Practice (feat. Saba) -- Let the cards fall -- Send a dove -- Wreckage room -- Thermostat (feat. Peter CottonTale) -- Out of the doldrums -- Wolfsheep -- I miss all my exes -- Backburner -- Libra intuition -- Boomerang -- Still -- The best thing -- Good news -- Headfirst.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WOOAbela, Deborah
Summary: Collects three stories about Jasper Zammit and his under-11s soccer team, the Rovers, in which Lil and Jasper work to become friends, Aamir is bullied by another team's player, and the team is assigned a new coach obsessed with winning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Australia 2014