Rao, 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 RAOShoghi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bahai Pub. Trust 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.89 SHOSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROARao, 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 RaoRao, Sri
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 RAORae 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 RAENoya Rao
Contents: Azimuth -- Moments -- Golden claw -- Midas -- Dreaming pt 1 -- I feel -- Same sun will rise -- Fly -- This time -- Dreaming pt 2
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gondwana Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC NOYRao, 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, 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 RAORao, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP TYBao, Karen
Summary: When Ver and Aryl, rival apprentices at the biology lab in the Pangu Star System, become the prime suspects in their teacher's murder, they reluctantly team up to find the real culprit, running up against system-wide inequalities and conspiracies along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2024
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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 FUJKao Studios
Summary: Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil! For decades, Devoid and his minions have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MAGRado, Jonathan.
Contents: Side A: Seven horses -- Hand in mine -- Looking 4a girl like u -- Dance away your ego -- I wood -- Faces -- Side B: Oh, Suzanna -- All the lights went out in Georgia -- I wanna feel it now!!! -- Would you always be at home? -- Law and order -- Pot of gold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodsist 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RADVivian, Siobhan.
Summary: Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VIVSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAIHao, Jingfang
Summary: "A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAOIwamoto, Nao
Summary: Roll out the red carpet for this critically acclaimed and self-contained fantasy rom-com that inspired an anime film (also known as Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom )! Once upon a time, two kingdoms, one rich in gold, the other rich in water, shared a border. The two nations were always fighting until an agreement was the most beautiful girl in the gold kingdom would marry the smartest man in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC IWALAO-TZU
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1976
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Place a hold to request this item.Rhimes, Shonda.
Summary: On Thanksgiving Day, 2013, Rhimes' sister told her: "You never say yes to anything." This became a wake-up call-- and a challenge. Rhimes details her one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life. She reveals how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits. When she learned to say yes to life, she learned to explore, empower,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015