Dix, Benjamin
Summary: "In the tradition of Maus, Palestine, and Persepolis, Vanni is a graphic novel documenting the human side of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the “Tamil Tigers.” Told from the perspective of a single family, it takes readers through the horrors and life-changing decisions individuals are forced to make when caught up in someone else’s war. Set in the northern region of Sri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 954.9303 DIXSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATAzad, Yasmin
Summary: This sharply insightful memoir depicts a young Muslim girl's struggle to balance the traditions of a loving yet conservative father, who wants to keep her safe, against the more liberal Westernized Sri Lankan world outside. This memoir provides a glimpse into the microcosmic Galle Fort Muslim community of the 1960s post independent Sri Lanka. -- from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perera-Hussein Publishing House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AZAD, YASMIN AZAKarunatilaka, Shehan
Summary: "Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida--war photographer, gambler, and closet queen--has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARPethiyagoda, Nanda
Summary: "Sri Lanka is a diverse country, made up of many different ethnic and language groups. Readers discover the details about what life is like in this South Asian nation-from its history and economy to its environment and the lifestyles of its people. Colorful photographs give readers an up-close look at this island and those who call it home, and features such as sidebars and fact boxes provide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954.93 PETMunaweera, Nayomi.
Summary: "Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUNMasilamani, Mike
Summary: "A darkly satiric account of childhood in times of war, violence and refugee camps. Set in Sri Lanka, the scenes that unfolds in this powerful vignette of children caught in the crossfire of civil war could equally happen elsewhere-- in all places where human deaths are reduced to numbers and guns do not differentiate between adults and children"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books Private Limited 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASRocklin, David
Summary: In colonial India at a time of growing friction between the ruling British and the restless Indian populace, a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant defy convention, class, and heartbreak to investigate what is gained--and lost--by holding life still.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROCLuloff, Joanna
Summary: To those living in the south of Sri Lanka, the civil war between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector seems unreal, until north and south lives intersect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LULJefferies, Dinah
Summary: "In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jefferies 2015Márquez, Melissa Cristina
Summary: Arriving in Sri Lanka to find an extremely rare Pondicherry shark, 12-year-old Adrianna Villalobos and her family discover that it is the main attraction in a restaurant aquarium and must convince the restaurant's owners to release it back into the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARJefferies, Dinah
Summary: Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child. While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JEFCooper, Paul M. M.
Summary: "In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king, lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet, furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOGunesekera, Romesh
Summary: "A coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNSummary: "Our updated 2023 guide brings Sri Lanka to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the country's iconic buildings and neighbourhoods. DK Eyewitness Sri Lanka is your ticket to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Eyewitness Travel 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.493 SRIFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FAROndaatje, Michael
Summary: An anthology of poems by a Canadian writer from Sri Lanka. In The First Rule of Sinhalese Architecture, he writes: "Never build three doors / in a straight line / A devil might rush / through them /deep into your house, / into your life."
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ONAGaneshananthan, V. V.
Summary: "Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm? Sashi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANArudpragasam, Anuk
Summary: "Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world. This extraordinary debut is of that class." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUOndaatje, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONDArudpragasam, Anuk
Summary: "A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUOndaatje, Michael
Summary: An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 ONDSummary: During a cease-fire treaty between the Sinhala government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a serviceman lives with his wife and sister, when he receives orders from the army that will change their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008