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Alternative rock music California Fiction Glasgow (Scotland) Fiction Japanese California Fiction Mail order brides Fiction Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī 1207-1273 Adaptations Missing persons Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century Fiction Women detectives Fiction Women journalists FictionSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMKina.
Contents: Girl from the gutter -- I love you -- Have a cry -- Stop -- Give and take -- Me -- U don't know -- Loser -- Hurt so bad -- Insanity -- Still here.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KINAMana
Contents: disc 1. De pies a cabeza (5:40) -- Oye mi amor (4:54) -- Refrigerador (3:59) -- Donde jugaran los niños (Obertura) (6:30) -- Soledad (6:12) -- Huele a tristeza (7:12) -- Te llore un rio (6:34) -- Estoy agotado (4:16) -- Perdido en un barco (4:19) -- Buscandola (4:11) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: WEA Latina 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MANMuna
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Zumba Fitness was created in the mid-90's by Colombian native Alberto Peréz, a celebrity fitness trainer and choreographer for International pop superstars. Inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba and merengue music he grew up with, Beto paired his favorite pulsating Latin rhythms with the red-hot international dance steps his clients loved and Zumba Fitness (Spanish slang for "to move...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Guthy-Renker 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 ZUMTran, Thi Minh Phuoc
Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRAMika
Summary: Singer-songwriter Mika is back with his fifth studio album. It includes the singles Tiny Love, which was featured on Billboard.com, and Ice Cream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIKOtsuka, Julie.
Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Ayako
Summary: Whitework Embroidery will show you how to make a variety of stitches including drawn work, pulled thread work, Hedebo, count work, and Schwalm. Full photo-illustrated instructions and all necessary patterns for each of 30 projects are included. Choose from a variety of elegant designs for the home and designs for baby including an heirloom christening gown, bonnet, bib, and booties. --Publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.44 OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: This is a a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides' extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Tracy
Summary: Drawing on the latest research, expert interviews and personal stories, a certified ADHD coach debunks misinformation about ADHD in women and explores how the condition manifests itself differently in the female brain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Holland, Mina.
Summary: "Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes "When we eat, we travel." Thus begins this irresistible tour of the cuisines of the world, revealing what people eat and why in forty cultures. What's the origin of kimchi in Korea? Why do we associate Argentina with steak? Why do people in Marseille eat bouillabaisse? What's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.55 HOLMina, Denise
Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise
Summary: An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mina 2019Javaherbin, Mina
Summary: In this version of the blind men and the elephant, based on a poem by Rūmī, Persian villagers try to figure out what strange animal in a dark barn has arrived from India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JAVMina, Denise.
Summary: The domestic dispute in a wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual. The elegant blonde bleeding in the shadows doesn't want help; and the well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells investigative journalist Paddy Meehan everything's fine. Then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper, slipping cash into her hand. The next morning Paddy sees on TV: the blond woman had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise.
Summary: Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise.
Summary: "Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMina, Denise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MinaTina
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TINMina, Denise
Summary: "A wealthy businesswoman disappears from her Glasgow home without a trace, leaving her husband and children panicked but strangely resistant to questioning. Tracing the woman's cell phone, police detective Alex Morrow discovers a call made from an unlikely location. A sleepy seaside community, Helensburgh is the last place you'd go looking for violence. But Morrow's investigation uncovers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015