Summary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHHilkka
Contents: Eatme, Koc -- Everybody, I fuck you -- Joie de beavre -- Count Crapula -- Millian -- Designed in California -- Multi meat eater -- Return of the phantom limb -- T & M (value added) -- Chase lock.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Carbon Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HilkkSummary: During World War II, 70,000 Finnish children were shipped off to Swedish families who had agreed to shelter them for their own protection until the end of the war. This is the story of one such boy, Eero. After the death her husband, grief stricken Kirsti agrees with great reluctance to send Eero to Sweden. His surrogate parents, Signe and Hjalmar, are grieving the recent loss of a daughter....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Matila Röhr Productions 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTIlona.
Contents: The first taste -- The magic -- In the hive -- Dancing with bees -- From nectar to honey -- Living with bees -- The sting -- The danger -- The fragrant work -- Beyond honey -- The taste of the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 REASummary: Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOGLoka
Summary: Loka, Ninja Tune's cult psychedelicists, purveyors of cinematic music that disturbs and troubles and intrigues rather than comforts, return with a new album, "Passing Place", An album which adventures through the outer reaches of psychedelia, jazz, and classical music.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ninja Tune 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC LOKIlya
Summary: "A brilliant guide to the art of creating comics... in the format of a comic!"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 741.2 ILYTroyanov, Iliya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROSummary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEAPulkkinen, Riikka
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULShlesinger, Iliza
Summary: "From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships." -- Publisher's annotation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 SHLSikka, Madhulika.
Summary: Madhulika Sikka's Breast Cancer Alphabet offers a new way to live with and plan past the hardest diagnosis that most women will ever receive: a personal, practical, and deeply informative look at the road from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. What Madhulika Sikka didn't foresee when initially diagnosed, and what this book brings to life so vividly, are the unexpected and minute challenges...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 SIKSimon, Ilana
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R. Rose 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.81 SIMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook SimonWhite, Bukka.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Takoma Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TAKHammerman, Ilana
Summary: "A Woman on Her Own, the latest book by Israeli writer Ilana Hammerman, is an episodic book, marrying stories of protest and more personal interludes on larger moral issues at play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Though Hammerman is an activist, thereader will not find her arguing with Israeli settlers, tearing down blockades, or getting arrested. Hers is a much more personal, moving, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 HAMTolonen, Jukka.
Contents: Elements. Earth fire water air -- Ramblin' -- Mountains -- Wanderland -- Last night.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Records 1974
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TOLWhite, Bukka.
Contents: The new 'Frisco train -- The Panama limited -- I am in the heavenly way -- The promise true and grand -- Pinebluff Arkansas -- Shake 'em on down -- Sic 'em dogs on -- Po' boy -- Black train blues -- Strange place blues -- When can I change my clothes -- Sleepy man blues -- Parchman Farm blues -- Good Gin blues -- High fever blues -- District attorney blues -- Fixin' to die blues -- Aberdeen...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jam 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WHIZilkha, Avraham.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ZILHämäläinen, Pekka
Summary: There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.004 HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native HamamainenTuttle, Susan Ilka
Summary: "Green Witch Magick is a beginner's guide to the many facets of green witchcraft and magick by noted Green Witch Susan Tuttle, @ creator of Whisper in the Wood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fair Winds Press 2021
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Summary: One of the richest movements in street art has been the development of an alternative, crafts-based, three-dimensional movement, broadly identified as Street Craft. This new generation of artists is creating uncommissioned, site-specific works employing a range of art and craft techniques, including weaving, crocheting, sculpting, painting, gardening, light installation, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 KUIMasad, Ilana
Summary: "Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASPonomarenko, Illia
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: From the razor-sharp mind of comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a collection of hilarious and insightful essays about the exasperating issues of everyday life. All Things Aside is a punchy, honest, incisive book that shares a view of the world through the eyes of the inimitable Iliza Shlesinger. From the macro to micro, Shlesinger tackles it all with her no-bullshit comedic style. Throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2022