Summary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHEmika
Contents: Wash it all away -- Could this be -- Run -- Close -- Promises -- Killers -- Falling (reprise) -- Falling in love with sadness (feat. The Exaltics) -- Escape -- Eternity.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EMIWoodruff, Elvira
Summary: The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, whom he calls Mr. Gifted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOONavarro, Elvira
Summary: Is literature a kind of therapy -- or is therapy a type of literature? Eliza tries to overcome her fears arising from the oddities of modern life through these two concepts. She is an editor for a large publishing group who often delays payments, forcing her to share her apartment with a strange woman who appears to have no past, which causes Eliza to obsess about knowing it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NAVAhmed, Samira
Summary: "Amira and Hamza must race against time to stop an ancient evil from obtaining a ring of power"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AHMAhmed, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AHMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AHMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMAhmed, 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 AHMJames, Eloisa.
Summary: In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. Paris in Love: A Memoir chronicles her joyful year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. With no classes to teach, no committee meetings to attend, no lawn to mow or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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James, Eloisa.
Summary: Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the Prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke's passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months. Theo would have given it a lifetime .... until she discovers that James desired not her heart,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMDeodato, Eumir
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DEOKleven, Elisa.
Summary: A little bird discovers why the lion's tail changes color each day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLEWilk, Elvia
Summary: "In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants; and the weather is acting strange. In search of affordable housing, young couple Anja and Louis move into a community on an artificial mountain, The Berg--yet another "eco-friendly" initiative run by a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMedunjanin, Amira.
Contents: Eleno Kerko = Helen, darling : trad. Macedonia -- Čula jesam da se dragi ženi = I heard my love set to marry : trad. Croatia -- Kradem ti se u večeri = Stealing away in thy evening : trad. Bosnia -- Iz banju ide šejtan devojče = From the baths a devilish girl goes : trad. Serbia -- Sejdefu majka buđaše = Sejdefa by her mother awakened : trad. Montenegro -- Ima dana = There are days : trad....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Village UK 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MEDElora, Grace.
Summary: Introduces foals and includes information on their physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.107 ELOFuhrman, Elina
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nut FuhrmanDones, Elvira/ Botsford, Clarissa (TRN)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONEmera, Deena
Summary: "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon. As the female body is constantly being politicized and policed, it is now more than ever that people must understand the inner workings of women's body. Written by an evolutionary geneticist, Deena Emera, Ph.D., in an accessible, nonjudgmental tone, A Brief History of the Female Body unravels misconceptions women have about their own bodies and supplies...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 EMESummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMCasey, Eliza
Summary: "When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series. England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of Avebury's fervent desire to see her married off, Lady Cecilia can't imagine life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CASJames, Eloisa
Summary: Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity, until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Alaric escapes to his father's castle, but just as he grasps that he's not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Eloisa.
Summary: Chronicles the year that the author and her family lived in Paris, describing her walking tours of the city, her school-age children's attempts to navigate foreign language schools, and her thoughts on the pleasures and eccentricities of French living.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54Ahmed, Samira
Summary: A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AHMAhmed, Samira
Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMAhmed, Samira
Summary: Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into a camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019