Satyal, Rakesh
Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATRamesh, Jaya
Summary: What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 RAMRadish, Kris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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Summary: Bonding over a court-ordered anger-management class, four women confront challenges in their careers and family lives that caused each of them to snap, difficulties that are attended by an unconventional therapist and her dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADGhaffari, Rabeah
Summary: The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a family, including their friends and servants, ranging from young to old, reveal the personal behind the political, reminding us of the human lives that animate historical events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHARabess, Cecilia
Summary: "On Jess's first day at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just ... the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising--if imperfect--ways. Before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Kapur, Rajeev
Summary: An introduction to artificial intelligence written in plain language with numerous examples.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rinity Media 2023
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Summary: Lucky and Addy Lipton are planning a trip to Paradise (Costa Rica) and hoping to get their marriage back on track. But while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. While a maimed Lucky roots himself to the couch, Addy makes a big decision. It's time for things to change--even if that means making drastic choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RADBalasubramanyam, Rajeev
Summary: "P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BALSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life, from public schools to museums, are public options--yet they are seldom celebrated as such. These government-supported opportunities co-exist peaceably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.6 SITSitaraman, Ganesh
Summary: A leading progressive intellectual offers an agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond. Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by the neoliberal era of privatization and austerity ever since. In each period, the dominant ideology was so strong that it united even partisan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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Summary: "A coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1995
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Summary: Katherine Givens befriends the four other women who, through the unexpected circumstance of their recently deceased friend Annie Freeman's last will and testament, are about to share a life-affirming road trip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spinsters Ink Books 2002
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Summary: 43-year-old Emma Gilford has always been an obedient daughter and sister. But when a voice from the past comes calling, Emma wonders if it's time to stop thinking of others--and start chasing her own desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RADSummary: Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends his twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIDKaresh, William B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 KARRash, Ron.
Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Serena returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Summary: Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have shaped their lives in contemporary Appalachia, a sheriff on the brink of retirement and a haunted park ranger confront violent forces when an elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015