Summary: Yoko travels with a small crew to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality TV travel show. In front of the camera her persona is carefree and happy-go-lucky, but behind the scenes she is cautious and introverted. Despite her best efforts, all the shootings end unsuccessfully. Frustrated by the failed filming, she takes to the streets of this mysterious country on her own. Lost in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOAliu, Akim
Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALIDiaz, Madi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2024
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Contents: Statued -- Ringing in my ear -- Gone away -- Cut -- These are your friends -- Everything you need -- Long drive home -- Pillow -- One in a million -- There will always be.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AdemIdir.
Contents: A vava inouva 2 -- A tulawin : une algérienne debout -- Un homme qui n'a pas de frère-- -- Exil : daghrib -- Tizi ouzou -- Révolution : tagrawla 2 -- Fable : tamaçahuts 2 -- Illusions : awah awah 2 -- Le jour du don : tiwizi 2 -- Mémories : cfigh 2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Saint George 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT IDINadim
Summary: "Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdaysare rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make a shhhh sound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 NADDobkin, Adin
Summary: "On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.62 DOBKhorram, Adib
Summary: "Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHOSteinsaltz, Adin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 STEVictoria, Adia
Summary: Two years after the release of her critically acclaimed debut Beyond the Bloodhounds, Nashville-based modern blues woman Adia Victoria returns. The album was recorded with Aaron Dessner (The National) at his studio in upstate New York. Throughout the album's twelve tracks, Victoria brings the topics of mental illness, drug addiction, sexism, and all the elements that consume the day-to-day...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICAziz, Susannah
Summary: Every Friday Musa's family takes turns picking out a Jummah treat which they use to try all different foods, but when it is Musa's turn he sticks to his favorite halal hot dogs to share.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AZIVictoria, Adia.
Contents: Lonely avenue -- Dead eyes -- Out of love -- Mortimer's blues -- Sea of sand -- And then you die -- Howlin' shame -- Horrible weather -- Headrot -- Invisible hands -- Stuck in the south -- Mexico blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICKhorram, Adib
Summary: "A high school stage manager has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy as his sister"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC KHOAziz, Philippe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Editions Ferni 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932 AZIAlsaid, Adi.
Summary: A wealthy dual citizen of Mexico and the United States rebels against his family's strict plans for his future in the aftermath of his older brother's tragic death, an event that compels him to secure a job with his favorite celebrity chef, a relationship that becomes complicated when he falls for his boss's daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSAdia, Jade
Summary: Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens to split up the crew, Rhea and her friends use social media to form a fake gang in hopes of scaring off...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ADIVictoria, Adia
Contents: Magnolia blues -- Mean-hearted woman -- You was born to die (feat. Kyshona, Margo Price & Jason Isbell) -- Whole world knows -- Troubled mind -- Far from Dixie -- Please come down -- My oh my (feat. Stone Jack Jones) -- Deep water blues -- Carolina bound -- South for the winter (feat. Matt Berninger).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAAnsari, Aziz
Summary: The acclaimed comedian teams up with a New York University sociologist to explore the nature of modern relationships, evaluating how technology is shaping contemporary relationships and considering the differences between courtships of the past and present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 ANSAnsari, Aziz.
Contents: Gay rights -- Sheets -- CVS -- Getting the sniffles on a flight -- Craigslist -- My random roommate -- Getting recognized in New York -- Walking with dinosaurs -- Simple man cruise -- My cousin Harris -- Harassing Harris on Facebook -- Are white people psyched all the time? -- MTV's next -- The J-1 waiver -- Using my BlackBerry while driving -- Bonnaroo -- Cold Stone Creamery -- Something cool...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ANAAziz, Afdhel.
Summary: Equal parts self-help, how-to, and business journalism, Market Like You Give a Damn examines this blossoming brand philosophy and profiles its current supporters. It exposes a compelling new path for potential start-ups or small businesses while reaffirming an essential need for generosity and mindfulness. Companies like Toms shoes and Warby Parker, among others, may have been the architects of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Arts 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 AZIKhorram, Adib
Summary: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2018
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Summary: On boy band Kiss & Tell's first major tour, lead singer Hunter Drake grapples with a painful breakup with his first boyfriend, his first rebound, and the stress of what it means to be queer in the public eye.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHOAlsaid, Adi
Summary: James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn't be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually... a button. Which she presses. Which may or may not unwittingly break...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022