Faruqi, Reem
Summary: Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Carman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2015
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Summary: Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither wants to be. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSClancy, Tom
Summary: For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clancy 2011Christie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRSlaght, Jonathan C.
Summary: "A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.9 SLASummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOLRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSRingo, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction TolCoonts, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOSummary: Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORThor, Brad.
Summary: "When a mystery thousands of years in the making threatens to catapult the enemies of America to a sure and decisive victory, the only person the president can call for help is the man the administration has just fired. Caught live on Al Jazeera in an off-the-books operation, Scot Harvath's career has been terminated and he is forced to go to ground as the president bows to pressure from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THORosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSBloom, Amy
Summary: "A Moll Flanders set in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way--and find her daughter--in the hip, harsh 1920s"--Publisher's website.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOVodolazkin, E. G.
Summary: Geroj novogo romana «Lavr» – srednevekovyj vrach. Obladaja darom istselenija, on tem ne menee ne mozhet spasti svoju vozljublennuju i prinimaet reshenie projti zemnoj put vmesto nee. Tak zhizn prevraschaetsja v zhitie. On vykhazhivaet chumnykh i ranenykh, ubogikh i nemoschnykh, i chem bolshe zhertvuet soboj, tem ochevidnee krepnet ego dar. No vozmozhno li ljubovju i zhertvoj spasti dushu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Izdatel'stvo AST 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 FIC VODSummary: "Riddler continues to tease Batman's brain... and all of Gotham as he leaves his riddles behind... some of them even solving the crimes of other criminals! And when a copycat tries to steal the Riddler's style, who will find them first--Batman or the Riddler?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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Summary: A dramatized radio production adapted from Tolkien's classic work.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 1999
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Summary: Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. 'In A Time of Monsters' bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SKY, EMMA SKYFriedman, Laurie B.
Summary: "Amanda Adams has always dreamed of running for class president. Her mom is a member of Congress and her dad is a political strategist who manages her mother's campaigns. Politics is in her DNA. She has the perfect VP in mind for the school ticket: her best friend Meghan Hart. But when Amanda finds out that Meghan has political ambitions of her own, these two best friends suddenly find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRIKalb, Marvin L.
Summary: Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KALFisk, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 FISEames, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005