Makhijani, Pooja.
Summary: An East Indian American daughter pleads with her mother to be allowed to wear one of her mother's colorful saris in honor of her seventh birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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Contents: Zakuski -- Soups -- Pirogs and pancakes -- Fish -- Meat and poultry -- Vegetable, grain, egg, and cheese dishes -- Desserts -- Sauces, jams, and drinks -- "My father's vishnevka."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 VISSummary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMBisher, Patrick
Summary: Patrick Bisher’s career as a Navy SEAL should have ended after a parachuting accident nearly crippled him. But overcoming adversity, even an injury as serious as a broken hip, was nothing new for him. He’d spent a portion of his childhood in leg braces. Doctors told him he’d never walk again thanks to a degenerative hip condition. He wasn’t about to give up then, any more than he was in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 BISChayil, Eishes.
Summary: Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written thousands of years before down to the last detail—and abuse has never been a part of it. But when thirteen-year-old Gittel learns of the abuse her best friend has suffered at the hands of her own family member, the adults in her community try to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2010
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Disher, Garry.
Summary: Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his crew, searching for a serial killer operating in a beachside town outside Melbourne, Australia, feel a new sense of urgency when the daughter of one of the police sergeants is abducted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK VISYang, Jisheng
Summary: "The only complete history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, 'The World Turned Upside Down' makes a crucial contribution to understanding the Cultural Revolution and its lasting influence today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 YANGreater Vision.
Contents: All creatures of our God and king ("O for a thousand tongues to sing" and "O worship the king" -- Come thou long expected Jesus -- Tell me the story of Jesus -- Stranger of Galilee -- Lily of the valley -- Wondrous cross medley ("When I survey the wondrous cross", "the Healer", and "the Old rugged cross") -- Christ the Lord is risen today -- Redeemed medley ("Since I have been redeemed",...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greater Vision 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS GRENissen, Craig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.09 NISShotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Tired of being treated like a child, a young girl sets out to prove herself capable to her multi-generational Indian-American family, but an ill-fated attempt at putting on a sari has an unexpected outcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen's journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHUDisher, Garry
Summary: "The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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Summary: "Learn to draw a wide range of manga characters in a variety of hairstyles, faces, and clothing, as well as animals, mechas, weapons, and vehicles. From teens to tech, cuddly pups to dangerous dragons, you'll find them all here in these pages. Step-by-step drawings show you how to draw bodies, faces, eyes, hair, hands, and feet. Learn scores of hairstyles, facial expressions, hand gestures, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 LIVisser, Kristin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Oak Press 1998
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Summary: An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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Summary: "Be the calm and collected parent you aspire to be with this powerful, neuroscience-based guide.Do you worry about your child all the time? Maybe they are behind on certain milestones, struggling in school, having difficulty making friends, or heading off to college and away from home for the first time. Their problems or struggles become your own, and you end up feeling so anxious that you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 KISRushen, Patrice
Contents: disc 1. Music of the earth ; When I found you ; Changes (in your life) ; Wishful thinking ; Let's sing a song of love ; Hang it up ; Cha-cha ; It's just a natural thing ; Didn't you know? ; Play! ; Music of the earth (Danny Krivit edit) ; Hang it up (12" version) ; Play! (unreleased extended take) ; Didn't you know (unreleased extended take) -- disc 2. Let the music take me ; Keepin' faith in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RUSVilden, Lynx
Summary: "In this memoir, earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: "I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Retelling of the story of Joshua and the Isrealites taking Jericho with parts played by the colorful VeggieTale characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: "A beautifully illustrated, thought-provoking picture book depicts the broad range of cultures in America, the values that bring us together as one people despite our differences, and the many ways we define what it means to be an American"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: Start with a few simple shapes and in 8 easy steps create colourful kawaii cars, cakes, cats and kittens, even TVs and vacuum cleaners! There are 28 super-cute characters to choose from, all bubbling over with personality and charm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Search Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 741.2 LIDisher, Garry.
Summary: "The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available in the United States at last! Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012