Summary: After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor in 1980s England with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling gothic romance. At Bly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAUWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: How do you tell a story? Before Toni Morrison was a Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize–winning author, she was Chloe Ardelia Wofford, a little girl in Ohio who was both the only Black child in her first-grade classroom and the only student who was able to read. This is the true story of how that young girl learned from her upbringing, surrounded herself with stories, and made a tremendous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MORShamir
Contents: Vegas -- Make a scene -- On the regular -- Call it off -- Hot mess -- Demon -- In for the kill -- Youth -- Darker -- Head in the clouds.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHAShamir
Summary: Following his surprise digital release, Hope, Shamir returns with a brand new album that serves as the physical follow up to his acclaimed 2015 release Ratchet.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Father/Daughter Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHASharif, Solmaz
Summary: "In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 SHASharif, Omar
Summary: "The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father's side and Holocaust survivors on his mother's, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents's Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When in the wake of the Arab Spring he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARIF, OMAR, JR. SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHARIF 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.
Format: text
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 SharifShamir
Contents: Oversized sweater (3:54) -- Wandering through (4:33) -- Our song (4:18) -- Appetizer (1:54) -- Calloused (2:38) -- Crime (3:09) -- The beginning (3:40) -- Without you (5:30) -- Obsession (3:01) -- Words (3:46) -- The devil said the blues is all I'll know (3:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHASharff, Billy
Summary: "When one family's cookies are so good that Santa and other holiday characters decide to stay, the question of why this holiday only comes once a year is answered by the time the 4th of July rolls around, when everyone's had a bit too much Christmas"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHASharif-Draper, Maryam
Summary: Examines the worldwide climate change crisis, covering such topics as humankind's effect on climate, key figures in climate activism, and what readers can do to prevent further damaging changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.2 SHAMegarbane, Charif.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Habibi Funk Records / Jakarta records 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Mafi, Tahereh
Summary: 2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFTwain, Shania.
Summary: A country music star who has had immense success at crossing over into pop music discusses both her personal and professional life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, SHANIA TWASummary: A family drama following the lives of three generations of women Kat Landry, her 15-year-old daughter Alice, and Kat's mother Del. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening and surprising journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AJAAttkisson, Sharyl
Summary: The veteran journalist exposes the practices of opposition research to reveal how political leaders use their influence to shape public opinion, connecting popular misconceptions to strategic smear campaigns that have influenced voters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 ATTNewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWRomero, Pharis
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ROMShafrir, Doree
Summary: "Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business--in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShalit, 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 SHATwain, Shania.
Contents: Up! (Red Album Version) (2:52) -- I'm Gonna Getcha Good! (Red Album Version) (4:29) -- She's Not Just A Pretty Face (Red Album Version) (3:49) -- Juanita (Red Album Version) (3:50) -- Forever And For Always (Red Album Version) (4:43) -- Ain't No Particular Way (Red Album Version) (4:24) -- It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing (Red Album Version) (3:19) -- Nah! (Red Album Version) (4:08) -- (Wanna...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strategic Marketing 2010
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Tamirat, Nafkote
Summary: A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the world A haunting story of fatherhood, national identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in America today, Nafkote Tamirat's The Parking Lot Attendant explores how who we love, the choices we make, and the places we're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAMShadid, 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 SHATwain, Shania
Summary: A collection of Shania Twain's greatest hits and most notable songs doubles as a soundtrack to a career-spanning Netflix documentary.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022