Summary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAFShukla, Sheil
Summary: "Indian food like you've never seen it before -- in a healthy vegan cookbook, with 100+ recipes and stunning photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56362 SHUShellac
Contents: Dude incredible -- Compliant -- You came in me -- Riding bikes -- All the surveyors -- The people's microphone -- Gary -- Mayor/Surveyor -- Surveyor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHERaja, Sheela
Summary: "More than ever, teens need tools to manage stress and increase resilience. Based on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, The Resilient Teen offers ten key skills to help readers bounce back from difficult situations, deal with difficult emotions, and cultivate a sense of joy, even in the face of modern-day stressors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155.5 RAJChari, Sheela
Summary: Returning to Earth after escaping the Martian colony, Mars Patel and his friends, along with genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt, discover that all the adults have mysteriously vanished and, as tensions rise and new mysteries are revealed, must somehow discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAChari, Sheela
Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CHAPreuitt, Sheela
Summary: "By completing these projects, readers will gain a solid baseline in coding. Build a slideshow, design a flag, create headlines that scroll across the bottom of newscasts, and more!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.5 PRERaja, Sheela
Summary: Your trauma doesn't need to define you. In The PTSD Survival Guide for Teens , trauma specialist Sheela Raja-along with her teen daughter Jaya Ashrafi-offers evidence-based skills to help you find strength, confidence, and resilience in the aftermath of trauma. If you've experienced trauma or suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the world can seem like a very frightening place....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 616.85 RajLeila
Contents: Mollie (5:20) -- Time to blow (3:07) -- Little acorns (3:29) -- Daisies, cats and spacemen (4:26) -- Mettle (4:24) -- Teases me (3:31) -- Carplos (4:21) -- The exotics (3:46) -- Deflect (4:21) -- Norwegian wood (3:34) -- Lush dolphins (4:03) -- Ur train (2:37) -- Young ones (3:23) -- Why should I? (4:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warp 2008
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Summary: "Drawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why--and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 ABDHall, Shyima.
Summary: Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. An anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima's servitude-but her journey to true freedom was far from over. A volunteer at her local police department, Hall is passionate about helping to rescue others who are in bondage....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, SHYIMA HalAgarwal, Shilpa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGAEaston, Sheena.
Contents: No deposit, no return (5:55) -- Lover in me (5:03) -- Follow my rainbow (4:55) -- Without you (5:37) -- If it's meant to last (4:07) -- Days like this (5:07) -- One love (4:54) -- 101 (4:06) -- Cool love (4:03) -- Fire and rain (5:56).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EASKolhatkar, Sheelah
Summary: "Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness -- at one point, owned the copyright to almost...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 KOLFrenkel, Sheera
Summary: "Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech ... Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 FRELawson, Shayla
Summary: This collection of essays that focus on black girl culture features topics such as workplace microaggressions, how to become famous on Twitter, traveling while black, and reversing racist stereotypes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAWOlmanson, Shaina.
Summary: "Some desserts in jars are baked or otherwise prepared right in the jar, while others are spooned into jars. Either way, the sparkling and pretty vessel and the appealing treat it holds make for a beautiful presentation. Olmanson's clever and cute desserts are at once playful and well-crafted, appropriate for a kids' birthday one weekend (Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes) and a grown-up gathering,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Common Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 OLMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.86 OLMRottschafer, Shelli
Summary: "Marriage is tough and relationships are always complicated.... Harry and Noelle Phillips know this all too well. In order to refocus their lives together after eighteen years, the couple begins a long weekend excursion in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trip is an attempt to put their marriage back on course. For their Stay North they choose Grand Island, situated off Munising Harbor and due...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atmosphere Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTWilliams, Sheila (Sheila J.)
Summary: Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILHall, Shyima.
Summary: The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HALRavella, Shilpa
Summary: "A riveting investigation of inflammation--the hidden force at the heart of modern disease--and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it. Inflammation is the body's ancestral response to its greatest threats: injury and foreign microbes. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science reveals simmering inflammation underneath the surface of everything from heart disease and cancer to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: "An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.94 TIPRudolph, Shaina.
Summary: Zane rushes home to tell his mother about problems he faced during his school day, and she reminds him that while others may only see his "autism stripe," he has stripes for honesty, caring, and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, American Psychological Association 2015