Summary: A young Indian woman returns to her wealthy hometown and faces her pretentious family and their traditions. But when she meets the handsome son of local shopkeepers and invites him over, she accidentally uncovers a pair of family secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INDMandisa
Contents: My deliverer -- How much -- He is with you -- Definition of me (featuring Blanca from Group 1 Crew) -- Not guilty -- Leave it in the valley -- Victorious -- Broken hallelujah -- Freedom song -- Dance dance dance -- You wouldn't cry (Andrew's song).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN ManMandisa
Contents: Overcomer (Capital Kings Remix) (3:51) -- Back To You (Neon Feather Remix) (3:23) -- Joy Unspeakable (Atellagali Remix) (3:56) -- Good Morning (Capital Kings Remix) (4:13) -- What If We Were Real (Neva Remix) (3:46) -- Stronger (Movin' Remix) (3:05) -- My Deliverer (RawlsCo Latin Remix) (3:04) -- Shackles (Switch Remix) (2:58) -- Waiting For Tomorrow (Silver Remix) (3:28) -- Only The World...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: UMG-EMI 2014
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Mandisa
Summary: Presents eleven songs by contemporary Christian singer and "American Idol" finalist Mandisa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MANMandisa
Contents: Overcomer -- Back to you -- The distance -- Face 2 face -- Press on -- What scars are for -- Dear John -- At all times -- Joy unspeakable -- Praying for you -- Where you begin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MANSinha, Manisha.
Summary: "Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SINMandisa
Contents: Stronger -- What if we were real -- These days -- The truth about me -- Say goodbye -- Good morning (feat. TobyMac) -- Waiting for tomorrow -- Just cry -- Temporary fills -- Free -- Lifeline.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN MANAmin, Manisha.
Summary: Set in rural India, "a ... story of a community's joys and sorrows, the transformative powers of music, the many faces of friendship, and a boy's journey, against all odds, to become a man"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIThakor, Manisha.
Contents: Start saving now -- Use your credit cards wisely -- Understand credit scores -- Protect yourself with insurance -- Embrace budgeting basics -- Why invest? -- How to invest your savings -- Frequently asked investing questions -- Super-size your retirement savings -- Prioritize your financial plan -- Your home -- Your car -- Your income taxes -- Your heart & your money -- Time for action.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 THACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.024 ThaMeyer, Marissa
Summary: A collection of Lunar chronicles stories explore how Cinder arrived in New Beijing, how Wolf became a brooding soldier, and when Princess Winter and Jacin realized their destinies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYPessl, Marisha.
Summary: When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PESPessl, Marisha.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PESSmith, Malissa
Contents: She-devils and Amazonian tigresses : women enter the boxing ring -- Victorian ladies boxing -- Boxing, women, and the mores of change -- Encountering the modern : Flappers, Mae West, and the war years -- Boxing in the Age of the "Mighty Atom" -- Burning bras, taking on the "sheriff," and winning the right to fight -- A ring of their own -- These ladies love the ring -- Christy Martin and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.4 SMIBuckhanon, Kalisha
Summary: On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again, the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCBuckhanon, Kalisha
Summary: "On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again, the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBernal, Tenisha
Summary: From bugs to tools, each page in this unique first words book is filled with things found in the garden--above and below the ground! Little ones can learn about the parts of a plant, the different herbs, fruits, and vegetables that can grow in a garden, and the names of tools that make gardening easier. There is even a page dedicated to urban gardening for those who don't have yards!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: A child discovers his distinguished heritage through the achievements of Black leaders from sports, entertainment, law and leadership.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "[A] writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original, and probing mind."--Amitav Ghosh In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor's Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity--for after rising seas destroy Manhattan, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THAGray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAEmrich, Alisha
Summary: Ramona Lambert's best friend has moved away; her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay; and she is pretty sure her crush has no idea she exists. Her cosplay character, Rel, gives her the confidence and freedom she lacks in real life. When she decides to strike up an email conversation with her crush, Caleb Wolfe, from her cosplay account in the hopes getting to know him, the two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMRMcNish, Cliff.
Summary: When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC MCNHelou, Anissa
Summary: "In Feast...Anissa Helou--an authority on the cooking of North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East--shares her extraordinary range of beloved, time-tested recipes and stories from cuisines throughout the Muslim world. Helou has lived and traveled widely in this region, from Egypt to Syria, Indonesia to Pakistan, gathering some of its countries' finest and most flavorful recipes for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 HELHelou, Anissa
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 HELGray, Anissa
Summary: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019