Summary: Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KANMerchant, Nilofer
Summary: In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that, in fact, we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to "make a dent" on the world. Now that the Internet has liberated ideas to spread through networks instead of hierarchies, power is no longer determined by your status, but by "onlyness"--that spot in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 MERPalika, Liz
Contents: So you want a puppy: Are you ready for a puppy? -- Big or small, longhaired or short? -- In the beginning: A puppy -- Bringing home your new best friend: Before you bring your puppy home -- First 24 hours -- Setting household rules -- Perils and pitfalls of housetraining -- New people, new things -- Your puppy's health: First visit to the vet -- Maintaining your puppy's health -- Routine care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.707 PALAhmed, Samira
Summary: "Amira and Hamza must race against time to stop an ancient evil from obtaining a ring of power"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AHMPalika, Liz
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.392 PALBelfer, Lauren.
Summary: In the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, talented "Life" magazine reporter Clara Shipley finds herself on top of one of the nation's most important stories--the race to discover penicillin at the Rockefeller Institute. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BELPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUEYanya, Nilüfer
Contents: Wway health (0:59) -- In your head (3:28) -- Paralysed (4:26) -- Angels (3:56) -- Experience (1:07) -- Paradise (3:58) -- Baby blu (4:41) -- Warning (0:21) -- Heat rises (3:26) -- Melt (4:23) -- 'Sparkle' God help me (1:32) -- Safety net (4:33) -- Tears (3:16) -- Monsters under the bed (4:13) -- The unordained (3:22) -- Give up function (0:41) -- Heavyweight champion of the year (4:42).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YANYanya, Nilüfer
Contents: The dealer (3:39) -- L/R (3:40) -- Shameless (4:34) -- Stabilise (3:32) -- Chase me (3:30) -- Midnight sun (4:42) -- Trouble (5:04) -- Try (4:10) -- Company (3:46) -- Belong with you (2:56) -- The mystic (3:33) -- Anotherlife (3:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK YANBelfer, Lauren
Summary: "A new powerful and passionate novel--inspired by historical events--about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Belfer 2016Oshomah, Waziri
Contents: Forgive them oh God (Amin-amin) -- Jealousy -- Alhaji Yesufu Sado managing director -- Omhona-omhona -- Ovini omoekeke Alhaji Inu Umoru -- Okhume ukhaduame -- My luck (feat. Madam Hassanah Waziri and her velvet voice).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OSHPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: "A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PADOshomah, Waziri.
Contents: Forgive them oh God amin - amin -- Emoi Khakiegwi aghumheile -- Igwegi baba -- Iyuchele opomumhe -- Alhaji yesufu sadu ...et al.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka bop 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OSHPanzera, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.6 PANSummary: Behind the headline of a murder and a suicide, lies the story of a lonely man whose deep feelings of humiliation push him over the edge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellsprings Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRIAhmed, Samira
Summary: "A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMHelfer, Monika
Summary: "The multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELAkhbari, Parisa
Summary: "Two best friends, bonded by their shared love of poetry, uncover all the different meanings if "I love you" once they begin dating their senior year of high school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal HelferHelfer, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.757 HELTelfer, Tori
Summary: "Why do we love stories about scammers so much? Journalist Tori Telfer dives into the stories of historical female con women and explains why we are so enamored by their scams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 TELCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 TELTelfer, Tori
Summary: "In 1998, an FBI profiler infamously declared in a homicide conference, "There are no female serial killers"--but Lady Killers offers fourteen creepy examples to the contrary."--page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 TELAhmed, Samira
Summary: Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AHMSummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013