Peltosaari, Leila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tikka Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.47 PELLeila
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).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warp 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC LEILiima
Contents: 1982 -- David Copperfield -- Life is dangerous -- People like you -- 2-hearted -- Kirby's dream land -- Jonathan, I can't tell you -- My mind is yours
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIIAboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOMeacham, Leila
Summary: A mysterious inheritance takes lovely Cara Martin from Boston to a ranch in West Texas, where she encounters its forceful owner, Jeth Langston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEASales, Leila
Summary: Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALKeila, Kamal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KEIMcCalla, Leyla
Contents: A day for the hunter, a day for the prey / Leyla McCalla -- Les plats sont tous mis sur la table / Canray Fontenot ; arranged by Leyka McCalla -- Far from your web / Leyla McCalla -- Little sparrow / Ella Jenkins ; arranged by Leyla McCalle -- Manman / Manno Charlemagne ; arranged by Leyla McCalla -- Peze Café / traditional Haitian song ; arranged by Leyla McCalla -- Bluerunner : (instrumental)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MCCSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIMcCalla, Leyla
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MCCPunyaratabandhu, Leela.
Summary: Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand s capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture and unforgettable food they encounter along the way. Thai cuisine is more popular today than ever, yet there is no book that chronicles the real food that Thai people eat every day until now. In Bangkok, award-winning author Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 recipes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 PUNSlimani, Leïla
Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLIMeacham, Leila
Summary: Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined: Samantha...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Meacham 2016Meacham, Leila.
Summary: Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2012
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Mottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Mottley, Leila
Summary: "A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOTMottley, Leila
Summary: "Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MOTSales, Leila
Summary: Twelve-year-old Maddie runs her babysitter Janet's campaign to become mayor of their city and protect arts funding. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALNargi, Lela.
Summary: Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NARFela
Contents: Koola Lobitos 64-68. Highlife time (5:22) -- Omuti tide (3:50) -- Ololufe mi (5:16) -- Wadele wa robin (4:05) -- Laise lairo (4:11) -- Wayo (1st version) (4:41) -- The '69 L.A. sessions. My lady frustration (6:58) -- Viva nigeria (3:45) -- Obe (3:12) -- Ako (2:40) -- Witchcraft (5:25) -- Wayo (3:27) -- Lover (6:08) -- Funky horn (4:42) -- Eko (4:12) -- This is sad (5:19).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wrasse Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KutiFela
Contents: Shuffering and shmiling -- No agreement -- Dog eat dog (instrumental).
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KutiLalami, Laila
Summary: "The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LALAMI LALLalami, Laila
Summary: In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America-a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014