Summary: Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast. By the 1970s, these former New Yorkers had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents. The film takes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASNaeem
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP NAERosser, Kareem
Summary: "An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSSER, KAREEM ROSAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 ABDSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: "It is 1873, and Mycroft Holmes is in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims. Mycroft allows Sherlock to take the case, as he has been asked to find a missing person--the fiance of the woman he loves. As Sherlock travels the country on the hunt for a murderer, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Abdul-Jabbar 2015Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata)
Summary: "Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities in the country, and his teenage years in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, James adopts the hybrid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OLUAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: "An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ABDAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: Traces the evolution of the author's views on social justice, from his youth in the civil rights era to his current role as a cultural commentator on topics ranging from race and economic inequality to music and the influence of the media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 ABDAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: The disappearance of Jugnu and Chanda turns tragic when Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murders and the families struggle to reconcile their Islamic faith and the crime's impact on their families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLGetten, Kereen
Summary: Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GETJansch, Bert
Summary: "Comprising Bert's seminal 1960s output (alongside his only album as a duo with Pentangle bandmate John Renbourn) this four disc set covers an era that forged creative paths for everyone from Neil Young to Johnny Marr. New listening notes from Bill Leader, as well as unseen photographs from Brian Shuel complete this special collection."--Container packaging.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earth Recordings 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK JANAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ABDAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ABDAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDAslam, Nadeem.
Summary: Jeo and Mikal are foster brothers from a small town in Pakistan. Though they were inseparable as children, their adult lives have diverged: Jeo is a dedicated medical student, married a year; Mikal has been a vagabond since he was fifteen, in love with a woman he can't have. But when Jeo decides to sneak across the border into Afghanistan--not to fight with the Taliban against the Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLHaque, Fareed.
Contents: Carry On (4:25) -- Teach Your Children (2:53) -- Almost Cut My Hair (4:29) -- Helpless (3:37) -- Woodstock (3:53) -- Deja Vu (4:12) -- Our House (2:59) -- 4 + 20 (2:06) -- Country Girl: A. Whiskey Boot Hill. B. Down, Down, Down. C. "Country Girl" [I Think You're Pretty] (5:12) -- Everybody I Love You (2:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Atlantic 1970
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Contents: The black swan -- High days -- When the sun comes up -- Katie cruel -- My pocket's empty -- Watch the stars -- A woman like you -- The old triangle -- Bring your religion -- Texas cowboy blues -- Magdalina's dance -- Hey pretty girl.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City Incorporated 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK JanKaraim, Reed
Summary: "A young man, Eric, drops out of college and lucks into a job with a small-town newspaper where he meets Anna - a woman whose story will both haunt and inspire him for the rest of his life. Set in a remote North Dakota community in the last days before the Internet, The Winter in Anna unfolds around a romance that almost was, and a meditation on what constitutes a life well lived. In wistful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARAslam, Nadeem
Summary: "A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASLEid, Kassem
Summary: Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story--a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni. On August 21, 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EID, KASSEM EIDJansch, Bert.
Contents: Ring-a-ding bird (3:53) -- One for Jo (2:53) -- Poison (3:41) -- The old routine (3:22) -- Needle of death (3:52) -- Oh my father (3:13) -- Running, running from home (2: 56) -- Afterwards (3:34) -- Can't hide love (3:53) -- Moonshine (3:32) -- A woman like you (3:44) -- A windy day (6:05).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Temple Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK JANKarmel, Annabel.
Summary: A cookbook for children that teaches basic skills and techniques and features healthy recipes that encourage children to choose ingredients and flavor combinations while they learn about nutrition and kitchen hygiene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2010