Summary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BESSalh, Shugri Said
Summary: "A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALH, SHUGRI SAID SALSade
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843.6 SADSaso.
Contents: Trapped in ice -- Lost at sea -- Why wait? -- System error -- Type a jitters -- Green trees -- Soft focus -- Artefact -- Nothing personal -- I can do nice -- Turn your back -- Pass it by -- Blinds down.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melted Snow 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SASSade
Contents: Is it a crime -- The sweetest taboo -- War of the hearts -- You're not the man -- Jezebel -- Mr. Wrong -- Punch drunk -- Never as good as the first time -- Fear -- Tar baby -- Maureen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Portrait 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SADSade.
Contents: disc 1. Your love is king (3:41) -- Smooth operator (4:19) -- Hang on to your love (4:31) -- The sweetest taboo (4:28) -- Is it a crime (6:22) -- Never as good as the first time (3:58) -- Jezebel (5:26) -- Love is stronger than pride (4:20) -- Paradise (3:38) -- Nothing can come between us (3:54) -- No ordinary love (7:20) -- Kiss of life (4:14) -- Feel no pain (5:11) -- Bulletproof soul (5:24)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SADSummary: Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is the only remaining apartment owner in a gracious older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. As the builders tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AQUWand
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WANSaedi, Sara
Summary: In San Jose, California, in the 1990s, teenaged Sara keeps a diary of life as an Iranian American and her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SAESaedi, Sara
Summary: Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEContents: Gonna make you sweat (everybody dance now) (C+C Music Factory) -- C'mon n' ride it (the train) (Quad City DJ's) -- It takes two (Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock) -- Bust a move (Young MC) -- U can't touch this (MC Hammer) -- Push it (Salt-n-Pepa) -- Rumpshaker (Wreckx-n-Effect) -- Humpin' around (Bobby Brown) -- Real love (Jody Watley) -- You dropped a bomb on me (Gap Band) -- Word up! (Cameo) -- Shake...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2009
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Summary: A reprint of a love story of two childhood friends, a Muslim warrior and a Christian girl, during the Russian Revolution. Set on the Caspian Sea, the novel symbolizes the clash of cultures between East and West. It was first published in German in 1937.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAISummary: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Contents: Lift it down -- Message from the mountain -- Love is -- Now you are mine -- There once was a man -- Golden desert -- Golden fervor -- Taste the whip.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sacred Bones Records 2020
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK SANWard, Sandi
Summary: A boy and his cat. It's an unconventional friendship, perhaps, but for Charlie and Lily, it works beautifully. It was Charlie who chose Lily from among all the cats in the shelter. He didn't frown, the way other humans did, when he saw her injured back leg, the legacy of a cruel previous owner. Instead, Charlie insisted on rescuing her. Now Lily wants to do the same for Charlie. She's the only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WARSad Rockets
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stefan Betke 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PEKSummary: Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CARHossain, Saad Z.
Summary: "Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by? If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Unnamed Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSSummary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her; Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher and dreams of meeting her ideal man; After a series of disappointments, Anne and her husband Gilbert return to Avonlea in search of happiness,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSaad, Layla F.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAASaad, Layla F
Summary: "When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.809 SAACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.809 SAASaid, Edward W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SAISaid, S. F.
Summary: Guided by the spirit of his legendary Mesopotamian ancestor, Jalal, Varjak Paw, a pure-bred cat, leaves his home and pampered existence and sets out to save his family from the evil Gentleman who took their owner, the Contessa, away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: The central figure of the Qur'an is not Muhammad but Allah. The Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture, is marked above all by its call to worship Allah, and Allah alone. Yet who is the God of the Qur'an? What distinguishes the qur'anic presentation of God from that of the Bible? In this illuminating study, Gabriel Said Reynolds depicts a god of both mercy and vengeance, one who transcends simple...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020