Rao, Nilima
Summary: "1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAOSummary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROAContents: Mahogany wood (Only A Mother) -- Bach is dead (Idiot Flesh) -- Time's up (Heavy Vegetable) -- Everyone comes to the freak show (Frank Pahl) -- Constantinople (Borgia Popes) -- What could the matter be (UBZUB) -- Union local 282 electrocutioner (Thinking Fellers) -- Firefly/Vinegar (The Mooseheart Faith) -- 6 things to a cycle pt. 1 (Splatter Trio) -- Act of being polite (Amy Denio) -- N-err-gee...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vaccination Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EYERao, Joe.
Summary: "Did you know that comets are sometimes called "hairy stars?" Or that if you saw a sunset on the moon, the sun would look white because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere? You'll learn this and much more as you become an expert on the objects in the sky"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JSpace RaoBhat, Nilima
Summary: Too many leaders, men and women alike, have bought into a notion of leadership that exclusively emphasizes traditionally "masculine" qualities: hierarchical, militaristic, win-at-all-costs. The result has been corruption, environmental degradation, social breakdown, stress, depression, and a host of other serious problems. But there is another way, one that restores balance to this lopsided way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BK/Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2016
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Summary: Pairs recipes for home-cooked Indian food with movie stills from the nation's cinema, including such dishes as shrimp curry, bhindi masala, chicken korma, baked samosas, sweet and sour pumpkin, and mango cheesecake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5954 RAOLiima
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
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIIRae Sremmurd (Rap duo)
Contents: Origami (Hotties) -- Royal flush (ft. Young Thug) -- Mississippi slide -- Tanisha (Pump that) -- Bend ya knees -- Activate (ft. Future) -- Flaunt it/Cheap -- Sexy -- YMCA -- Something I'm not -- Torpedo -- Diamonds dancing -- ADHD anthem (Too many emotions).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP RAEKlima
Contents: French mittens -- By my side -- I will remember you -- Papilon de nuit -- Father -- In my room -- Sing to me -- Things get better with time -- Sylvia -- Orffans -- Bottomless sea
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Language 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KLINoya Rao
Contents: Azimuth -- Moments -- Golden claw -- Midas -- Dreaming pt 1 -- I feel -- Same sun will rise -- Fly -- This time -- Dreaming pt 2
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gondwana Records
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Place a hold to request this item.Rao, Joe
Summary: "Escape from the cold and embrace an avalanche of information about snow."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RAORao, Shobha
Summary: A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAONiia
Contents: Prelude -- Hurt you first -- Sideline -- Nobody -- last night in Los Feliz -- Girl like me -- Day & night -- Constantly dissatisfied -- California -- All I need -- Mulholland -- Sideline Ft. Jazmine Sullivan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NIIContents: Call off the wedding / Goldie Hill -- Lonely street / Don Gibson -- There'll be no teardrops tonight / George Jones -- I dreamed of an old love affair / Hank Snow and Anita Carter -- Heart to heart talk / Kitty Wells -- Tramp on the street / Carlisle Brothers -- Letter edged in black / Hank Snow -- A church, a courtroom and then goodbye / Patsy Cline -- My room is crowded / Skeets McDonald --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WONRao, Kritika H.
Summary: "High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity's survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAOLiu, Tao Tao
Summary: "This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many around the world are familiar with some aspects of Chinese myth - through Chinese New Year festivities or the classic adventures of the Monkey King in Journey to the West - few outside of China understand the richness of Chinese mythology, influenced by Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Offering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.5 LIUTy Dolla $ign
Contents: LA (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Brandy & James Fauntleroy) -- Saved (featuring E-40) -- Straight up (featuring Jagged Edge) -- Solid (featuring Babyface) -- Horses in the stable -- Know ya (featuring Trey Songz) -- Credit (featuring Sevyn Streeter) -- Miracle/Wherever (featuring Big TC & D-Loc) -- Guard down (featuring Kanye West & Diddy) -- Sitting pretty (featuring Wiz Khalifa) -- When I see ya...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP TYLoomis, Ilima
Summary: In this cumulative rhyme in the style of "The House That Jack Built," a family celebrates Hawaii and its culture while serving poi at a luau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOOTodd, Ilima
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Todd 2019Alikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALICao, Wenxuan
Summary: Under a burning sun on the dry grassland, animals ranging from a tiny field mouse to a large elephant fight over a bit of shade until they learn a better way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAOCharan, Ram.
Summary: A noted business consultant introduces his nine-step program for creating profitable, sustainable, internally generated growth in a business, in a handbook with useful tools, anecdotes, and real-life business stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 CHAFuji, Nao
Summary: "The comic misadventures of Chewie, Captain Marvel's catlike pet flerken. Join Captain Marvel's pet, Chewie, as she wreaks havoc in the lives of Marvel Comics' most popular characters. Gain a new persepective on beloved favorites such as Spider-Man and Iron Man, formidable villains including Thanos and Galactus, and antiheroes like Deadpool, as they all become the playthings of this capricious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC FUJGill, Nikita
Summary: "From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger. Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words. Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2022