Summary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: Through an elderly and old-fashioned grandmother, a spoiled seven-year-old boy learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAYṬāhir, Bahāʼ
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAHSummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISLSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARAmano, Shiro.
Summary: Sora, Donald and Goofy continue their quest to rescue King Mickey and Riku in time. Plus, who is the strange Kiari look-alike that Sora sees in his vision? Is she connected to the "Organization" or is she another lost soul in need of rescue?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KINSummary: A pitch-black comedy with style to burn, A Hard Day depicts a day-in- the-life of a cop that goes from bad to worse to cursed. Driving back from his mother's funeral, homicide detective Gun-soo runs over a man in a dark rural street. In a moment of desperation, he dumps the body in a coffin alongside his mother. The disappearance of his accident victim is investigated by a colleague, and,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPLiu, Jae Soo.
Summary: A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane/Miller Book Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIUMiwa, Shirō
Summary: When the people of Remnant aren't fighting monsters, they still find conflict among themselves. Now they are at fierce odds. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long are Team RWBY. Together they are learning the deadly craft of hunting the monstrous species known as the Grimm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RWBShihab, Sahib.
Contents: Set up -- Peter's waltz -- Yah, yah blues -- End of a love affair -- Om mani padme hum -- Bohemia after dark -- Campi's idea -- Jay-Jay -- Waltz for Seth -- Herr Fixit -- Stoned ghosts -- Companionship (I+II) -- Ct+Cb -- Dijdar -- Talk some yak-ee-dak.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rearward 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SHIDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIMHazareesingh, Sudhir
Summary: "A biography of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE HAZSaran, Suvir.
Summary: The author, born and raised in India and an acclaimed New York City restaurateur and chef, tells the story of moving to the country to raise goats, alpacas, ducks, geese, and chicken on 67 acres. Accompanied by more than 80 recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59747 SARSchimmel, Schim
Summary: An old Monarch butterfly passes along his wisdom about the earth's animals to a young caterpillar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SchimmelSmith Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Fiction Schimmel 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHEisner, Shiri.
Summary: "Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics--from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either "too bisexual" (promiscuous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 EISScher, Bob.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SCHDesai, Mihir A. (Mihir Arvind)
Summary: The Harvard Business School professor draws upon literature, film, philosophy, and history to argue that, at the core of finance and financial practices, there is a place for principles, ethics, and humanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 DESAlrawi, Karim
Summary: "Award-winning writer and master storyteller Karim Alrawi draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture in creating these enchanting tales that are a feast for young imaginations. These stories take readers of every age on a delightful literary, cultural and culinary odyssey. A profusion of unforgettable characters--fishermen and date merchants, child cooks and squabbling animals, beggars and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALRMassoud, Shahir
Summary: Discover innovative, flavour-packed recipes for Middle Eastern dishes, inspired by author Shahir Massoud's Egyptian upbringing. From home-friendly adaptations of street foods and casual everyday staples, to new interpretations of traditional recipes, 'Eat, Habibi, Eat!' encourages you to explore delicious new dishes at home. Massoud is the host of CTV's 'Around the World in 10 Meals' and CBC's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Appetite by Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5962 MASShihab, Sahib
Contents: Rockaway / J. Jenkins (6:42) -- The things we did last summer / J. Styne, S. Cahn (6:59) -- SMTWTFSS blues / S. Shihab (6:37) -- Le sneak / S. Shihab (5:49) -- Ballad to the East / M. Liston (4:41) -- Blu-a-round / S. Shihab (10:17) -- Lo-ba / S. Shihab (7:38) -- Ba-dut-du-dat / M. Liston (5:59) -- Sugar dugar / S. Shihab (4:39) -- SMTWTFSS blues / S. Shihab (4:58) -- Jamila / S. Shihab (5:33)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ SHIAli, Kazim
Summary: "An examination of the lingering effects of a hydroelectric power station on Pimicikamak sovereign territory in Manitoba, Canada"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, KAZIM ALIAli, Kasim
Summary: "If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It's the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he's seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man, Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden eldest child. And it's come at a cost. Once, Nur was a restless college...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022