Summary: Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHAKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KERKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Contents: Wall of eyes -- Teleharmonic -- Read the room -- Under our pillows -- Friend of a friend -- I quit -- Bending hectic -- You know me!
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2024
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Summary: What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Five characters in very different circumstances-- from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-- find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Siddhartha.
Summary: A stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. Siddhartha Mukherjee provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.99 Mukherjee 2010Mukherjee, Bharati.
Summary: Taken under the wing of an expat teacher for her ambition and talent, Anjali Bose hopes to escape unfavorable prospects and falls in with a crowd of young people in Bangalore, where she endeavors to confront her past and reinvent herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Siddhartha.
Summary: A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. The author provides a glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 MUKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.99 SIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 909 MUKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med MukherjeeMukerjee, Madhusree.
Summary: Examines Winston Churchill's efforts to defeat the freedom movement in India during World War II, comparing his actions in Europe to the decisions he made between 1940 and 1944, which resulted in the deaths of more than three million men, women, and children in India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.0359 MUKMukherjee, Abir
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In the days of the British Raj in 1919, Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective newly arrived in Calcutta, is confronted with the murder of a British official who was found with a note in his mouth warning the British to leave India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Abir
Summary: Recognizing ritualistic injuries on a murder victim from a memory compromised by his opium addiction, Captain Sam Wyndham, aided by sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee, struggles to solve two mysteries while hiding his personal demons from the Calcutta police force.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKKertell, Lynn Maslen
Summary: Presents a collection of ten easy-to-read stories that introduce three- and four-letter rhyming words and feature consistent short vowel sounds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2013
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Summary: Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-Not Banerjee, are back for another exotic adventure set in 1920s India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Neel
Summary: Chronicles the vicissitudes of the extended Ghosh family as internal rivalries accompany the implosion of the family business and external social unrest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Siddhartha
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 MUKSaile, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pruett Pub. Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 SAIMukherjee, Abir
Summary: The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven with suppressed conflict. Prince Adhir was a modernizer whose attitudes--and romantic relationships--may have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Neel
Summary: "How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMukherjee, Oindrila
Summary: "After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing--and no one--here is as it appears. Ultimately, it will take an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMukherjee, Siddhartha
Summary: "The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID--all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOSallee, Wayne Allen.
Summary: Serial killer Frank Haid, dubbed the Painkiller by Chicago police and media, murders 18 people—all paralytics. Commanded by an unseen presence that he calls ''Father'' and that speaks in the voice of an uncle whose rotting corpse he keeps in the living room, Haid destroys his victims (what's left of them) and evidence in a way that puzzles police. Hardest hit are residents of Marclinn, a home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Summary: "Find out what a rainforest is and what kinds of plants and animals call the rainforests home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020