Summary: The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOSMehan, Matthew
Summary: "Tells the story through captivating poems and breathtaking paintings of the adventure of two friends, the Dally and the Blug. Their jolly journey through an alphabet of mythical mammals unites the bright and bumbling Blug and the dear but downhearted Dally, who come to learn a thing or two about good, evil, courage, humor, sadness, hope ... and how to govern their spirits and truly love their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TAN Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.6 MEHMalan, Rian.
Summary: A chronicle of South Africa's halting, sometimes violent, steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.06 MALMilan, Courtney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILStitt, Milan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J. T. White 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 StittMellan, Olivia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8584 MellaModan, Rutu.
Summary: Maya's unique table manners turn the palace upside down when she accepts an invitation to dine with the queen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MODMahan, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.774 MAH1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 508.774 MAH
Melman, Yossi.
Summary: Inspired by hate and surrounded by fundamentalist leaders in a country that may soon possess nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses the most serious threat to world peace, even while he shrewdly manipulates public opinion at home. Until now, Americans have known little about him. Since his election in June 2005, Ahmadinejad has accelerated his country's nuclear research; called for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.0544 MELMelian, Gaby
Summary: "Chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food--from growing up in Argentina to her time as a street vendor and later as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's personal, healthy, and thoughtful"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MELMerlan, Anna
Summary: American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the accusations of “fake news,” he has fanned the flames of suspicion. But it was not by the power of one man alone that these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 MERMulgan, Geoff
Summary: A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind"--human and machine capabilities working together--has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006 MULKundera, Milan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 801 KUNKundera, Milan.
Summary: A novel on the theme that the pleasure inherent in a slower rhythm of life has disappeared from our speed-obsessed age. The protagonists are two men, one who has a romance in the 18th Century, the other in the 20th Century. Subsequently, they meet for a morning-after chat. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNPelouch, Milan
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 589.2 PelCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 PELCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food PelouchCelan, Paul.
Summary: Though this is among Celan's more accessible works, most of the poems in Hamburger's volume will reward, and stun, the attentive reader.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 CELMadan, Vikram
Summary: "Two best friends, Owl and Penguin, are opposites but solve their conflicts with creative play, from conquering fears to flying a runaway kite"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MADMakan, Chetna
Summary: Chetna's Healthy Indian Vegetarian is a celebration of Indian food at its best; fresh, vibrant and supremely delicious. With over 80 delicious recipes that vegetarian and even the most dedicated of meateaters will enjoy, Chetna shows just how creative you can be with even the most humble vegetable. This book is packed with flavor and innovative ideas yet easy and accessible for home cooks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Beazley 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 MAKMcAlister, Melani
Summary: "More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life. Since then the movement has been analyzed and over-analyzed, declared triumphant and, more than once, given up for dead. But because outside observers have maintained a near-relentless focus on domestic politics, the most transformative development over the last several decades--the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 MCAMcMan, Ann
Summary: "English professor and aspiring novelist, Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of "Beowulf for Cretins" to bored and disinterested students at one of New England's "hidden ivy" colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bywater Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMAHAN, JOHN
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SWTWV 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 508.7749 MAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 508.7749 MAH1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 508.7749 MAH
MOHAN, A.G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rudra press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 MOHMcMan, Ann.
Summary: "When sculptor and author Barb Davis is given an NEA grant to pair original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women's lives, she organizes a two week writing retreat with twelve of the best, brightest, and most notorious lesbian authors in the business. But in between regularly scheduled happy hours and writing sessions, the women enter a tournament bass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bywater Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMaran, Meredith
Summary: A lusty, kickass post-divorce memoir, one woman's story of starting over at 60 in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood. After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life s savings, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage, Meredith Maran whom Anne Lamott calls insightful, funny, and human leaves her San Francisco freelance writer's life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017