Kolata, Gina Bari

Summary: "Unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy. She delves into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, profiles the experts hot on the trail and the amateurs woefully misguided, and details the science and the latest understanding of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999

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Alabed, Bana

Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021

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Shepphird, Sari Fine.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010

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Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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Al Abed, Bana

Summary: When seven-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter to describe the horrors she and her family were experiencing in war-torn Syria, her heartrending messages touched the world and gave a voice to millions of innocent children.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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Summary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Wolf, Gita

Summary: The Bhil people of central India are amongst the country's oldest indigenous communities. They have an intimate yet playful relationship with the natural world of animals, plants, trees and forests. All of them are part of their everyday environment. Gangu Bai, Bhil artist, brings this connection alive through a set of joyful paintings in her traditional style, based on her memories of growing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books 2015

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Contents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013

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Summary: The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009

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Summary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012

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Kina.

Contents: Girl from the gutter -- I love you -- Have a cry -- Stop -- Give and take -- Me -- U don't know -- Loser -- Hurt so bad -- Insanity -- Still here.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks 2000

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Diga Rhythm Band

Contents: Sweet sixteen -- Magnificent sevens -- Happiness is drumming -- Razooli -- Tal Mala.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1988

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Summary: Given one more chance by Being X, a ruthless Japanese office worker is reincarnated as Tanya Degurechaff, a young and still-ruthless girl tasked with fighting on the front lines of war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Contents: The stretch (The Contours) -- Once upon a time (Marv Johnson with the Band of Harold "Beans" Bowles) -- Got a job (The Miracles) -- Love is amazing (The Ohio Untouchables) -- (Where's the joy?) In nature boy (Briant Holland) -- Witchcraft in the air (Betty Lavette) -- Sweet man (Sax Kari feat. Ella Reed) -- Tears of sorrow (The Primettes) -- Hard times (The Majestics) -- Shout (part one) (The...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009

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Bridgewater, Dee Dee.

Contents: Afro blue -- Bad spirits (Banilla Dream Mix]) -- Dee Dee -- Mama don't ever go away = Mama digna sara ye -- Long time ago -- Children go 'round = Demissenw -- The griots = Sakhodougou -- Oh my love = Djarabi -- Four women -- No more = Bambo -- Red earth = Massane cisse -- Meanwhile -- Compared to what.

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Publisher / Publication Date: EmArcy 2007

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Summary: Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism...

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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007

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Summary: "Acclaimed street syle photographer Ari Seth Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into the personal lives of New York City's most fashionable seniors. In an industry obsessed with youth, these older women dispel conventional ideas about beauty and aging and prove that with age comes grace, confidence, and new, unimagined opportunities for fame and fortune."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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Summary: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Summary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017

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BaBa Zula (Musical group)

Contents: Disc 1. Özgür ruh / free spirit -- Gerekli Şeyler / esential things -- Erotika hop -- Biz size aşık olduk / we fell in love with you (tv version) -- Seksek / hopscotch -- Cecom / (featuring Brenna Mac Crimmon) -- Aşıkların sözü kalır / eternal is the word of poets -- Efkarlı yaprak / worried leaf -- Carino / (La Yegros feat. Baba Zula) -- Yororo kanto / (Oki Dub Ainu Band feat. Baba Zula) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Ohba, Tsugumi

Summary: "Is Kira's story truly over, or does his influence linger? In this complete collection of Death Note short stories penned by the series' creators, discover tales of lives irrevocably changed by the sinister influence of the Death Note, with surprising and thrilling answers to the question of what it truly takes to use the Death Note... or fight it." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2022

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Summary: 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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