Contents: Pump up the valuum (NOFX) -- Problematic (All) -- No cigar (Millencolin) -- Noise conspiracy (The International) -- Close minded (Vision) -- Poison (Rancid) -- Secure horizons (Guttermouth) -- Panic (Osker) -- Better be women (Dwarves) -- Slow motion riot (98 Mute) -- We have to figure it out tonight (The Beatsteaks) -- Guilty by association (H2O) -- Hold it down (Madball) -- Happy (Straight...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epitaph 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PUNSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISNivhek.
Contents: After its own death -- Walking ub a spiral towards the house
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.25th 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NIVChibber, Vivek
Summary: "Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society? Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of how capitalism works, how it limits the power of working and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.12 CHIRamaswamy, Vivek
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture." -- Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 RAMHives
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HIVFiver
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIVShraya, Vivek
Summary: "A playful story ... about a young boy's fascination with the dot on his mother's forehead"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHRShraya, Vivek
Summary: "In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's responses to them to startling life in "Death Threat", a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, "Death Threat" is an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHRShraya, Vivek
Summary: "Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki's song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini's star rises and Neela's stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRRamaswamy, Vivek
Summary: "A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAMShraya, Vivek
Summary: "A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female passengers, and shed light on the lives of these women whose voices are seldom heard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENMandela, Nelson
Summary: Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON MANVives, Carlos.
Contents: Hechicera / con Jessie Reyez -- No te vayas -- For sale / con Alejandro Sanz -- El hilo / con Ziggy Marley & Elkin Robinson -- Canción para Rubén / con Rubén Blades -- Vitamina en rama -- Los consejos del difunto -- Rapsodia en la mayor (Para Elena) -- Cumbiana -- Zhigonezhi.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VIVVives, Carlos.
Contents: Tengo fe -- Que diera -- Los buenos tiempos -- Pambe -- Amores excondidos -- Interior -- Sol de mediodia -- Cumbia americana -- Malas lenguas -- Caballito.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Latin 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VIVSummary: Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Seven 1997Summary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009Murthy, Vivek Hallegere
Summary: "In Together, the former Surgeon General addresses the overlooked epidemic of loneliness as the underpinning to the current crisis in mental wellness and offers solutions to create connection and stresses the importance of community to counteract the forces driving us to depression and isolation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISTiwary, Vivek J.
Summary: The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles-from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth Beatle is an uplifting, tragic, and ultimately inspirational human story about the struggle to overcome seemingly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2013
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Tiwary, Vivek J.
Summary: Tells the story of Brian Epstein, the discoverer and manager of the Beatles, in graphic novel format, highlighting his struggle against a society that reviled his homosexuality, Judaism, and Liverpool upbringing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIWMaijala, Marika
Summary: Racing greyhound Rosie escapes the confines of the racetrack and bounds towards freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Elsewhere Editions 2023