Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: "Rejoining The Hour a year on in 1957, the team are still striving to broadcast the stories they believe in, grappling with the disturbing threat of the Cold War and a country in the grip of unsettling, rapid change. Bel is still single and determined not to get involved with another married man, but finds herself taking on her adversary Bill Kendall, an ITV producer whose magnetic charm she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOUSummary: Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUFAbou-Khalil, Rabih.
Contents: Catania -- Nashwa -- An evening with Jerry -- When the lights go out -- Story teller -- Ornette never sleeps -- Nadim -- Wishing well.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Enja Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ABOAbou-Khalil, Rabih.
Contents: Sahara -- Tsarka -- Ziriab -- Blue camel -- On time -- A night in the mountains -- Rabou-Abou-Kabou -- Beirut.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Enja 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ Abou-Ali, Samina
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALISummary: Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OMASummary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT
McKay, Ami
Summary: The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCKSummary: Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLASamia
Contents: Kill her freak out -- Charm you -- Pink balloon -- Mad at me -- Sea lions -- To me it was -- Breathing song -- Honey -- Nanana -- Amelia -- Dream song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAMSummary: While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY QUESummary: Two years ago a Tsunami ravaged the coast of Thailand and hundreds of thousands lost their lives. This story follows a group of people whose lives are irrevocably transformed in the aftermath including: a young couple searching for their child; a Thai survivor who loses his family and tries to prevent developers from seizing the land his village is built on; an Englishwoman whose husband and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TSUSamia
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2020
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Samia
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAMPolonsky, Ami.
Summary: "Grayson, a transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POLSimms, Ami
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mallery Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SimmsVitale, Ami
Summary: Panda Love is a collection of incredible images of these gentle giants. Ami Vitale's stunning photographs, taken on location in China, document the efforts to breed pandas and release them back into the wild. Ami was given unprecedented access to the pandas and her photos give an amazing insight into the bears' lives in both the sanctuaries and their natural habitat. Fluffy panda cubs tumble...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.789 VITJabu.
Contents: Let me know -- Tomb -- Get to you -- Fool if -- Bones -- On -- Searc -- Wounds -- Which way -- Lay you down -- Give
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackest Ever Black 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JABSummary: It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STASummary: The story of the Henry family as they experience World War II in Europe and the Pacific, depicting the final years of the war and its impact on everyday people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Jai ganesh / (Anandi Bhattacharya) (5:44) -- Tillie sage / (Kyle Carey) (4:19) -- Ouden oida = I know nothing / (Kristi Stassinopoulou with Stathis Kalyviotis) (4:31) -- Ya mo / (Dozan, featuring Shireen Abu-Khader) (3:28) -- Me so wa yen / (Sally Nyolo) (3:30) -- Benim yarim / (Olcay Bayir) (5:01) -- Annapoorne / (Jyotsna Srikanth) (5:20) -- Baǧa girdim / (She' Koyokh, featuring Çiǧdem Aslan)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT ROUKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: "A surrealist novel about four teenagers who find unconventional ways to escape standardized tests and their perilous world, and discover that the only escape from reality is to face it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KINSamite.
Contents: Kite kitere (4:10) -- Yangu ni yako (4:36) -- Tunula eno (5:22) -- Mwatu (5:36) -- Soroti boys song (4:58) -- Ndere ye kiro (4:28) -- Agalilala (1:40) -- Maama yi baaba (8:52) -- Yazala abambuti (3:37) -- Emengo (6:11) -- Wansuta (4:48) -- Kaleba (4:22) -- Obubaka (4:56) -- Dawaya Mwoyo (3:12).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Triloka/Artemis 2003