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Ahamed, Liaquat. Ahmed, Azam Ahmed, Saladin Ahmed, Samira Ahmedi, Farah. Laozi Laozi. Raffi Raffi. Razzi, Jim.Summary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUSummary: A small fighter jet gets the chance of a lifetime to compete in an international airshow championship. Determined to win, the jet signs up with a demanding trainer, but the reigning champ wants to make sure the jet won't win the tournment--or even compete.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Wings 2013Summary: Contains twelve selections of North African dance music, including performances by Jomed, Faudel, Hamid Baroudi, ChebMami, and others.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2005
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN PUTSummary: Rose, a demure and prim governess, arrives in Marrakesh, Morocco to begin a new job as a paid companion to a wealthy English expatriate. As she explores the exotic environs of her new home, she is seduced by the men, music, and mystery of Morocco.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ANOLaozi
Summary: Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARRaffi
Contents: The way it goes -- Luna's song -- Play play play -- Listen to the horses -- Mary had a little lamb -- Walkin' my dog -- Fiddle dance -- Market day -- Here comes the sun -- Dragonfly -- Love grows love -- Dog on the floor -- Rainbow -- Take a breath -- Ittakes a village.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV RAFRaffi
Contents: Peanut butter sandwich -- Brush your teeth -- Five little pumpkins -- Down by the bay -- Going on a picnic -- The corner grocery store -- Day o -- Biscuits in the oven -- Oats & beans & barley grow -- Savez-vous planter des choux? -- Apples & bananas -- Bananaphone -- Naturally -- Kitchen sing sing -- Coconut.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV RAFRaffi.
Contents: Evergreen everblue -- Mama's kitchen -- Big beautiful planet -- Alive and dreaming -- Where I live -- What's the matter with us? -- Our dear, dear mother -- Just like the sun -- Clean rain -- One light, one sun -- We are not alone -- SustainABILITY ; Cool it (bonus tracks).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV RAFRaffi.
Contents: Peanut Butter Sandwich (0:58) -- Brush Your Teeth (1:11) -- Five Little Pumpkins (0:30) -- Down By the Bay (2:08) -- Going on a Picnic (1:10) -- The Corner Grocery Store (1:52) -- Day O (2:59) -- Biscuits in the Oven (2:24) -- Oats and Beans and Barley (1:25) -- Savez-vous Planter Des Choux (1:32) -- Apples and Bananas (1:37) -- Bananaphone (3:14) -- Naturally (3:06) -- Kitchen Sing Sing (2:07)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Rounder 2013
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Ahamed, Liaquat.
Summary: "With penetrating insights for today, this history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s presents unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century." "In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHARama
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 RAMALaozi
Summary: "A transformative new edition of Taoism's central text that overturns its reputation for calming, gnomic wisdom, revealing instead a work of "philosophical dynamite""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.5 LAOLaozi.
Summary: The Tao Te Ching is a series of meditations on the mysterious nature of the Tao—the Way, the Light, the very Source of all existence. According to Lao Tzu (a name meaning "the old master"), the Tao is found where we would least expect it—not in the strong but in the weak; not in speech but in silence; not in doing but in "not-doing."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sam Torode Book Arts 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.5 LAORazzi, Jim.
Summary: Magic tricks, puzzles, games, and things to make from ordinary materials such as cereal boxes and plastic wrap, for children from four to eight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parents' Magazine Press 1974
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Place a hold to request this item.Ahamed, Liaquat.
Summary: Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.1092 AhaCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AHAAhmedi, Farah.
Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMAhmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMAhmed, Saladin
Summary: "Miles Morales swings back into the spotlight! When the rampaging Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take a dark turn for the young Spider-Man! What mystery lurks under the surface of this newest villainous uprising? Why does the Rhino have minions? And who is the new antagonist who may just become Miles' most dangerous foe? Maybe Captain America has the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Ahmed, 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 AHMRaffi.
Summary: Presents the illustrated text to the song about the little white whale who swims wild and free.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Toddler Raffi 1991Raffi.
Summary: In this song, two children imagine their mothers asking, "Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose, a fly wearing a tie, or llamas eating their pajamas down by the bay?"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1990