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Cooking, Egyptian Cooking, Middle Eastern Gaza Strip Description and travel Israel Description and travel Middle East Social conditions Palestinian Arabs Gaza Strip Social life and customs Palestinian Arabs Israel Social life and customs Palestinian Arabs West Bank Social life and customs United States Civilization Juvenile literature West Bank Description and travelShamir, Ruby
Summary: "A look at what makes Americans distinct and what makes American society thrive for young readers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 SHAShamir, Ruby
Summary: Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists inspire a new generation of investigative reporters as they offer tips and advice for writing stories that can make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.15 SHAShamir, Ruby
Summary: Describes how Americans choose leaders, local and federal, and why elections should matter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 SHAShamir, Ruby
Summary: "A kid-friendly history of the concept of freedom in the U.S"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.44 SHAShamir, Yoav
Summary: Follows Shamir as he attempts to determine the current state of antisemitism; includes talks with members and critics of the Anti-defamation League, a trip to Auschwitz with Jewish school-children, and a visit to Brooklyn to investigate reports of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEFKluger, Jeffrey
Summary: What's more exciting than spaceships and astronauts? How about a spaceship carrying the first astronauts ever to see the moon firsthand--on Christmas! The year was 1968, and the American people were still reeling from the spacecraft fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew a year earlier. On top of that, there were rumors that the Russian cosmonauts were getting ready to fly around the moon. NASA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 KLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Space KlugerHarris, Kamala
Summary: Now adapted for young readers, Senator Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. As the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of California, and the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, Kamala Harris has blazed trails on her path to the national stage. But how did she achieve her goals?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARMassoud, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Appetite by Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5962 MASToubassy, Samir
Summary: The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war—the Nakba, or catastrophe—is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is his trek to excel, while wrestling with his roots and identity as a Palestinian in the shadow of his family’s expulsion that is at the heart of his story. Global business leader, philanthropist, and educator, Samir Toubassy left Jaffa with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUBASSY, SAMIR TOUJeffrey, Shaker
Summary: Recounts the story of Shaker Jeffrey, a young Yazidi interpreter for the US military in Iraq, and what happened after ISIS sentenced the Yazidi people to extermination. The Yazidis fled to Mount Shingal, where they had no food and no water. Shaker went behind enemy lines, relaying their precise locations to CENTCOM in Washington and even infiltrating their ranks to rescue the taken; but he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFREY, SHAKER JEFShadid, Anthony.
Summary: "In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. He had seen too much violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHADID, ANTHONY SHAShafir, Rebecca Z.
Contents: Creating a mindset for good listening -- How well are you listening now? -- Awakening your sense of listening -- The great walls of misunderstanding -- What's their movie? -- Mindfulness: Listening in the moment -- Listening to ourselves, Part 1: Our response key -- Listening to ourselves, Part 2: The listener's pariahs -- Listening under stress -- Boosting your listening memory -- How to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quest Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation ShafirShadid, Anthony.
Summary: From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, an account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. The Washington Post's Shadid went to Iraq, neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid--an Arab American born and raised in Oklahoma--was able to disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 SHAShafrir, Doree
Summary: "An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected, from the co-host of the hit podcast Forever35. Doree Shafrir was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed; at both sites, she authored countless viral articles. Just before she turned forty, she published her first novel, and one year later, she quit her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAFRIR, DOREE SHASharif, Manal
Summary: A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARIF, MANAL SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHARIF SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult SharifShalit, Wendy
Contents: Introduction: my bratz problem--and ours -- "Hi, slut!" -- The new bad-girl script and its limitations -- It's midnight : do you know where your role models are? -- Against repression (emotional repression, that is) -- Excuse me, ma'am, have you seen my friends? -- Pure fashion divas -- People-pleasing bad girls and rebellious good girls -- Feminism's (mild) fourth wave -- From diapers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7083 SHAShamos, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mallard Press 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 794.73 SHASHEMIE, BONNIE
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 970.004 SHEShadmi, Koren
Summary: "A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his personal Twilight Zone. We recognize Rod Serling as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Television. Before he became the revered master of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SERShafik, Minouche
Summary: "Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.011 SHAShakur, Sanyika
Summary: Portrait of gang life in South Central Los Angeles today
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1993
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Summary: "In the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, issues of consent and sexual harassment are being talked about more than ever before. Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between gives parents, educators, and healthcare professionals the tools they need to raise these important conversations with teens. Covering topics such as consent, legal responsibility, bystander intervention, and support and prevention, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 176.0835 ZAL(SHAKIR, M. H., TRANS.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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Place a hold to request this item.Culhane, Shamus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1988