Summary: A famous psychotherapist is forced to steal thirteen paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUBSanghani, Radhika.
Summary: "Okay, I admit it ... I didn't do it. Yet. This is normal, right? I mean, just because everyone I know has talked like they've already done it doesn't mean that they're telling the truth ... right? It's not like I'm asking for that much. I don't need the perfect guy. I don't need candlelight or roses. Honestly, I don't even need a real bed. The guys I know complain that girls are always...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSanghani, Radhika
Summary: "When a British Indian woman's life hits rock bottom, she decides to change her stars by falling in love...with herself--a hilarious, heartfelt story from outrageously funny novelist Radhika Sanghani. Nina didn't plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. There's no Wi-Fi, no wine, no carbs, and no one to celebrate with....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSrinivasan, Radhika
Summary: "India is a land of variety: cultures, ethnic groups, and languages, landscapes, religions, and art forms. This huge country has a history that stretches over thousands of years, over a backdrop woven of all these threads, and a future that has both profound challenges and much promise"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954 SRIZeman, Ludmila.
Summary: Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, makes a dangerous journey in search of the secret of immortality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books of Northern New York 1995
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Summary: An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ULIZeman, Ludmila.
Summary: Gilgamesh, half-god and half-man, in his loneliness and isolation becomes a cruel tyrant over the citizens of Uruk. To impress them forever he orders a great wall to be built, driving his people to exhaustion and despair so that they cry to the Sun God for help. In answer, another kind of man, Enkidu, is sent to earth to live among the animals and learn kindness from them. He falls in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 ZEMCabello, Camila
Contents: Shameless -- Living proof -- Should've said it -- Señorita (with Shawn Mendes) -- Liar -- Bad kind of butterflies -- Easy -- Feel it twice -- Dream of you -- Cry for me -- This love -- Used to this -- First man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CABWoods, Jamila
Contents: Betty -- Zora -- Giovanni -- Sonia -- Frida -- Eartha -- Miles -- Muddy -- Basquiat -- Sun Ra -- Octavia -- Baldwin -- Betty (For Boogie).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WOOShamsie, Kamila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAFuchs, Camila.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ATP Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC CAMShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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Summary: "A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWShamsie, Kamila
Summary: July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atavist Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAZeman, Ludmila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ZEMZeman, Ludmila.
Summary: While striving to kill Humbaba, the monster who has attacked the city of Uruk, Gilgamesh spurns the advances of the goddess Ishtar, prompting her revenge, in a retelling of an episode from the story of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1993
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2023
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Summary: "From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHAShamsie, Kamila
Summary: Raised from birth alongside her best friend Karim, Raheen enjoys a privileged Karachi childhood and mourns their separation when Karim's family moves, learning in the years that follow about their parents' complex friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HARCO 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAVictoire, Camila
Summary: "At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VICNavai, Ramita.
Summary: "Rich, absorbing, and exotic, City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts. Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955 NAVNavai, Ramita.
Summary: This is Real Tehran: A City that is hidden from view and rarely written about, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and subterfuge. It is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is uploaded to the Internet and sold in the bazaars. Plotted around the city's great central thoroughfare,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 955 NAVAhmed, Jamila
Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AHMWoods, Jamila
Contents: Bugs -- Tiny garden (feat. Duendita) -- Practice (feat. Saba) -- Let the cards fall -- Send a dove -- Wreckage room -- Thermostat (feat. Peter CottonTale) -- Out of the doldrums -- Wolfsheep -- I miss all my exes -- Backburner -- Libra intuition -- Boomerang -- Still -- The best thing -- Good news -- Headfirst.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023