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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Arab countries Politics and government 21st century Conduct of life Conduct of life Juvenile literature Jazz vocals Piano music (Jazz) Picture books for children Popular music 2011-2020 Resilience (Personality trait) Juvenile literatureMarwan, Zahra
Summary: "An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MARMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Williams, Laura (Laura Farman)
Summary: Partner Workouts features 70 step-by-step exercises that utilize another person, either directly for resistance or indirectly for stability and balance. Forty workouts put these 70 bodyweight exercises, yoga positions, cardio, and more into routines, and three long-term, comprehensive exercise programs provide regimens so you and your partner can motivate each other to achieve your fitness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 WILMarano, Laura
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairytale where modern-day Cinderella, an aspiring singer and songwriter, is prevented by her step mother and step sisters from going to the biggest performing event of the year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CinderellaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CINMarano, Laura
Summary: Kai-Lan and her friends have adventures and share Chinese words and culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV NIVahdat, Mahsa.
Contents: Mina -- Bi man maro -- Haleili -- Flower of a paradise garden -- Chahar pareh -- Dorna -- Gole laleh / She's got the whole world in her hands -- Doosh doosh -- Avaze shoushtari -- Saghi nameh.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN VAHPullen, Don.
Contents: Disc 1, Capricorn rising. Break out ; Capricorn rising ; Joycie girl ; Fall out -- Disc 2, Healing force. Pain inside ; Tracey's blues ; Healing force ; Keep on steppin' -- Disc 3, Warriors. Warriors dance : Little Don (Parts 1-2) ; Land of the pharoahs -- Disc 4, Milano strut. Conversation ; Communication ; Milano strut ; Curve eleven : (for Giuseppi) -- Disc 5, The magic triangle. Lonely...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CAM London 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PULSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARSummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHSummary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCSummary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWOContents: 24K magic (Bruno Mars) -- Don't wanna know (Maroon 5 feat. Kendrick Lamar) -- Scars to your beautiful (Alessia Cara) -- Side to side (Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj) -- Let me love you (DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber) -- Starboy (the Weeknd feat. Daft Punk) -- Black Beatles (Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane) -- Broccoli (D.R.A.M. feat. Lil Yachty) -- Juju on that beat (TZ anthem) (Zay Hilfigerrr &...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO
Contents: Upside Down (3:39) -- Me and You (2:47) -- Who U R (3:35) -- Superhero (3:23) -- Parachute (3:14) -- What We're About (3:33) -- Chasin' the Beat of My Heart (3:19) -- Stuck on You (2:36) -- Redial (2:28) -- Steal Your Heart (3:21) -- Better Than This (3:16) -- I Think About You (3:26) -- Unstoppable (3:45).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2013
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Lari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARSummary: When a magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, it gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into the Mighty Pups! For Skye, the smallest member of the team, her new powers are a dream come true. But things take a turn for the worse when the pups' archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail and teams up with Victoria Vance, a meteor-obsessed mad scientist, to steal the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
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Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRBishara, Marwan.
Summary: "The Invisible Arab is a brilliant analysis from Marwan Bishara, one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals, on how the Arabs broke their own psychological barrier of fear to kindle one of the first significant revolutionary transformations of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.097 BISPatterson, Zahra
Summary: "Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ugly Duckling Presse 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PATMartyn
Contents: Forgiveness step 1 -- Glassbeadgames (with four tet) -- Empty mind -- Drones -- Love of pleasure (with copeland) -- Two leads and a computer -- Forgiveness step 2 -- Like that -- Lullaby -- Fashion skater.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARMuasher, Marwan
Summary: "This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when--if the dream is realized--a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014