Mahfuz, Najib
Summary: The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRNadim
Summary: "Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdaysare rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make a shhhh sound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 NADNajma.
Contents: Jheel mai chand -- Dil mai -- Jhoomo gao -- Pukar -- Dil jala ne -- Improvisation (semi-classical) -- Baabul -- Pukar (without tabla).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mondo Melodia 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN NajmaNajma.
Contents: Rishte -- Fragrance -- Aksar -- Behaal -- Woh Dhin -- Special rider blues -- Naya Dhin -- Da aya -- Parda -- Soul taker -- Pensif Khayal.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Village 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/INDIAN/INDONESIAN AKHMaḥfūẓ, Najīb
Summary: Never has Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than in this outstanding novel, first published in Arabic in 1947. One of his most popular books (and considered by many to be one of his best), Midaq Alley centers around the residents of one of the teeming back alleys of Cairo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHBlade, Namir
Contents: Award speech (3:25) -- Mephisto (3:27) -- Mondy Michiru (feat. The Adoni) (4:01) -- Ride (4:55) -- Drive (feat. Jordan Webb and JS Kodiak) (5:53) -- Cain and Abel (2:59) -- Boa (1:52) -- Hypercar (2:25) -- Shounen (feat. Jordan Webb and Cashmere Crool) (2:32) -- Dance hall (feat. Gee Slab) (5:00) -- Deep (1:50) -- Ontredderd (2:11) -- Guts vs Griffith (5:44) -- Unc speaks/sharp (2:02) -- Ring...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BLAKweli, Talib.
Contents: Everything man -- NY weather report -- Hostile gospel, pt.1 (deliver us) -- Say something (ft. Jean Grae) -- Country cousins (ft. UGK & Raheem Devaughn) -- Holy moly -- Eat to live -- In the mood (ft. Kanye West & Roy Ayers) -- Soon the new day (ft. Norah Jones) -- Give 'em hell (ft. Foi Mattison & Lyfe Jennings) -- More or less (ft. Dion) -- Stay around -- Hot thing (ft. Will.i.am) -- Space...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blacksmith/Warner Bros. 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KWEMazari, Najaf
Summary: "This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth. This extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph withintelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape. A musician conjures stones to rise in the air...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAZMohabir, Rajiv
Summary: "Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the United States."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHABIR, RAJIV MOHNavab, Pedram
Summary: "Ditch insomnia in as little as 4 weeks with this 6-step therapeutic program for better sleep. Insomnia looks different for everyone. Whether it's caused by stress, a traumatic life event, or even a snoring partner, poor sleep can affect the quality of your waking life. But Dr. Pedram Navab wants readers to know that it's not a lost cause-falling asleep can be just as easy as waking up. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.
Summary: In this book, the author focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tugof war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 CHAKweli, Talib
Summary: One of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years offers a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force in addition to illuminating his own upbringing and artistic success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KWELI, TALIB KWENajmī, Ḥasan.
Summary: As Hassan Najmi's acclaimed novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, the renowned Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice Toklas, who-on the recommendation of Henri Matisse-hired Muhammad as their guide when they visited Morocco. Now close...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAJNamie, Gary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 NAMReynoso, Naibe
Summary: Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Con Todo Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REY1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 920 REY
Shihab, Sahib.
Contents: Set up -- Peter's waltz -- Yah, yah blues -- End of a love affair -- Om mani padme hum -- Bohemia after dark -- Campi's idea -- Jay-Jay -- Waltz for Seth -- Herr Fixit -- Stoned ghosts -- Companionship (I+II) -- Ct+Cb -- Dijdar -- Talk some yak-ee-dak.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rearward 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SHIAmini, Majid.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.7 AminiNavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NAVFotuhi, Majid.
Summary: An internationally recognized neurologist presents a revolutionary brain-optimization program that, despite research to the contrary, proves that as humans get older, they can actually get smarter and increase their brain speed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Kweli, Talib.
Contents: Experience dedication -- Move somethin' -- Some kind of wonderful -- The blast -- This means you -- Too late -- Memories live -- Africa dream -- Down for the count -- Name of the game -- Ghetto afterlife -- On my way -- Love language -- Love speakeasy -- Soul rebels -- Eternalists -- Big Del from Da Natti -- Touch you -- Good morning -- Expansion outro -- For women.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rawkus Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KWEKweli, Talib
Contents: The magic hour -- Traveling light (featuring Anderson .Paak) -- All of us (featuring Jay Electronica and Yummy Bingham) -- She's my hero -- Chips (featuring Waka Flocka) -- Knockturnal -- Radio silence (featuring Amber Coffman & Myka 9) -- The one I love (featuring B.J. the Chicago Kid)-- Heads up eyes open (featuring Rick Ross & Yummy Bingham) -- Let it roll -- Write at home (featuring Datcha,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP KWEMian, Zanib
Summary: "Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIANadin, Joanna.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Jude has to get out of tiny Churchtown. She has to escape her outcast status and her pathetic dad, who hasn't gotten past her mother's death. The one bright light is drama, her way out, if only she can get into the Lab, a prestigious program in London. Then Stella, Jude's childhood best friend, swaggers in after years away. With bold and magnetic Stella by her side, Jude knows...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011