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Summary: Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRE

Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra

Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SAB

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SAB

Summary: Collects stories featuring characters from such Disney films as "Tangled," "The Lion King," and "Frozen."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Disney

Summary: This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY UNC

Summary: Retells animal stories from around the world, including "Brer Rabbit and the Well," "Puss in Boots," and "The Hungry Hyena."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 GRE

Summary: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GOO

Summary: A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY UNC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Un

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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Bagieu, Pénélope

Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAG

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 Bagieu

Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra

Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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Summary: "Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN COM

Summary: After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years embark on a journey of reconciliation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2017

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAD

Tinariwen

Contents: Tinde (7:15) -- Tamiditin (4:29) -- Koudedazamin (4:33) -- Imidiwan ahi sigidam (4:38) -- Tamatant tiley (3:07) -- Tinde (3:26) -- Azawad (3:58) -- Chaghaybou (4:20) -- Toumast tincha (4:21) -- Tiwayyen (3:40) -- Emin assosam (4:49) -- Tinde final (4:49).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TIN

Summary: This series follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UND

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.1 GRO

Summary: The Turtle brothers work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023

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Kaada.

Contents: Care -- Mainframe -- Black California -- Burden -- No you don't -- Go brown -- All wrong -- Honk -- I need you -- Thank you for giving me your valuable time.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAA

Sadies

Contents: Riverview fog -- Another season again -- There are no words -- It's easy (like walking) (featuring Kurt Vile) -- The elements song -- Through strange eyes -- God bless the infidels -- The good years -- As above, so below -- Questions I've never asked -- The noise museum.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAD

Kaada

Contents: Smiger (4:37) -- Mainstreaming (4:39) -- From here on it got rough (3:20) -- Spindle (5:29) -- The mosquito and the abandoned old woman (3:57) -- Julia Pastrana (4:42) -- No man's land (5:00) -- Daily living (3:49) -- The small stuff (3:48) -- Celibate (7:20) -- Retirement community (5:12) -- Birds of prey (4:16) -- In hora mortis (3:46).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings 2006

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAA

Lhasa

Contents: Con toda palabra -- La marée haute -- Anywhere on this road -- Abro la ventana -- J'arrive à la ville -- La frontera -- La confession -- Small song -- My name -- Pa'llegar a tu lado -- Para el fin del mundo o el an̋o nuevo -- Soon this space will be too small.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LHA

Sad13

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAD

Sadies

Contents: Introduction -- The first inquisition, pt. 4 -- What's left behind -- Sunset to dawn -- Yours to discover -- Anna Leigh -- The trial -- My heart of wood -- A simple aspiration -- Wolf tones -- Never again -- The land between -- The last inquisition, pt. 5.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Yep Roc 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAD

Samia

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 SAM

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RAK

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