Summary: "Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUKira Kira
Contents: Call it music -- Warmer than the sun -- Blue my mind -- Laniakea -- Beautiful time -- Suikinkutsu -- Puretone -- Magic acid -- Space elevator
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arabesque
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC IRRBila, Vera.
Contents: Chirikloro mirikloro -- Pas o panori -- Ma dza nikhaj -- Chaje, chaje -- Baro d'ives -- Baron romane chTavore -- Na kamav -- Rat'aha me peske phirav -- Pandzdzenore -- So me kerava -- Helena -- Te me pijav laches rosnes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BILKina.
Contents: Girl from the gutter -- I love you -- Have a cry -- Stop -- Give and take -- Me -- U don't know -- Loser -- Hurt so bad -- Insanity -- Still here.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KINAEERA
Contents: Living -- Beast -- Christine -- I wanna dance -- Survived -- Watching you -- 10,000 voices -- Trust -- Wise man -- Reflection of youth.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EERDiva
Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIVHara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARLira Singers
Contents: Suita Maryjna. Bogurodzica ; Już od rana rozśpiewana ; Serdeczna Matko ; Chwalcie ła̧ki umajone ; Pod twoja obronę ; Cześć Maryi ; Totus tuus ; Pieśń do Matki Bożej Fatimskiej ; Apel Maryjny -- Gaude Maria virgo -- Three hymns to texts by Pope John Paul II. Uwielbienie Eucharystii ; Królowo Polski ; Modlitwa za Polskę -- Zdrowaś Maryjo -- Hail Mary/Zdrowaś Maryjo -- Królowej anielskiej...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lira Ensemble 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS LIRVida, Vendela.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDMehta, Mira
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1990
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Summary: Yvonne, a recently widowed mother of two grown children, returns to Datça, Turkey, to relive memories of a happier time, but instead is troubled by her past and finds solace in her friendship with Ahmet, a young local boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDVila, Bob.
Summary: The authors tell you what you should know before, during, and after any remodeling project.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.7 VILAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRJiménez, Vita
Summary: Every day we throw things away, but is everything we throw out really garbage? Can it be reused or made into something different? Learn how to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in this catchy song from the Me, My Friends, My Community series.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVirga, Vint.
Summary: Based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, he delves into the inner lives of animals and explores the relationships we forge with them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636 VIRViva, Frank
Summary: "A boy and a mouse trek to the top of a volcano, taking in soaring trees, lunar landscapes and snow capped peaks, then return to the ancient city at the bottom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVAira, César
Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRViva, Frank
Summary: Rhyming text tells of a boy's birthday at Coney Island, while each turn of the page reveals a new meaning for an oronym--a pair of words or phrases which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VIVVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARViña, Rose
Summary: "In the 1930's, only white figure skaters were allowed in public ice rinks and to compete for gold medals, but Mabel Fairbanks wouldn't let that stop her. With skates two sizes too big and a heart full of dreams, Mabel beat the odds and broke down color barriers through sheer determination and athletic skill. After skating in ice shows across the nation and helping coach and develop the talents...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAIObolensky, Kira.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.98 OBOSathian, Sanjena
Summary: "An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Sathian 2021Viera, Lauren
Summary: The 500 Hidden Secrets of Chicago reveals 500 off-the-beaten- track places and interesting details for anyone who's keen to explore Chicago's best-kept secrets, e.g. 5 cafés for sitting a spell, 5 iconic merchants, 5 ways to enjoy the Chicago river, 5 unlikely art destinations, 5 historic music spots… and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Luster 2023