Summary: It is a poignant and funny romantic comedy about love, marriage, and faith in life's infinite possibilities. Michal, blindsided by her fiance's decision to call off their wedding with only a month's notice, is unwilling to return to single life. Michal decides to put her trust in fate and continue with her wedding plans, believing Mr. Right will appear by her chosen date. As the day of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WED RATED PGSummary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUNDavis, Camas
Summary: Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, CAMAS DAVComo Mamas
Contents: Old landmark -- God is able -- God is good to me -- Thank him enough -- Peace of mind -- I know it was the blood -- Meet me at the River Jordan -- Ninety nine and a half won't do -- Soon I will be done -- One more river to cross -- I'm going home to Jesus -- Hold me Jesus -- Nobody's fault but mine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Daptone Record 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS COMAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWAAmal (Amal Karzai)
Summary: "When two ordinary objects land on a city sidewalk, a little girl's dull day becomes an odyssey of new places and unusual faces. Led far away on a dragon boat, she makes use of her found objects to get past the locked library doors, where erudite elephants open her eyes to the beauty of books and faraway lands. Faced with fantastic animals and discoveries, has she found the secret to make dull...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AMANaj, Amal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3384 NAJMAMAS AND THE PAPAS
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAMComo Mamas (Musical group)
Contents: Move upstairs -- Out of the wilderness -- Count your blessings -- He's calling me -- 99 and a half won't do -- Almighty god might god -- I can't thank him enough -- So good to me -- Glory glory hallelujah -- He's mine -- I know I've been changed.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Daptone Recording Co. 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS COMAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMASummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRAmar, Akhil Reed.
Summary: Explores the little-understood relationship between the written Constitution and the many external factors that shape the interpretations of this foundational document.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 AMAAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "A historical survey of the people, events, decrees, legislation, writings, and cultural milestones, in England and the American colonies, that influenced the Founding Fathers as they drafted the US Constitution and Bill of Rights"--P. [2] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 AMAAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "Constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar tells the story of America's constitutional conversation during its first eighty years--from the Constitution's birth in 1760 through the 1830s, when the last of America's early leaders died. Amar traces the threadsof Constitutional discourse, uniting history and law in a narrative that seeks both to reveal this history anew and to make clear who was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 AMAAmar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "From Illinois to Alabama, and from Florida to Utah, our laws and legal debates arise from distinctive local settings within our vast and varied nation. As the renowned scholar Akhil Amar explains, Abraham Lincoln's argument against the legality of succession can be traced to his Midwestern upbringing, just as a close look at the Florida legislature and state Supreme Court reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMAMakos, Adam.
Summary: Relates the true story of two World War II airmen, one American and one German, who put aside the conflict and helped each other to safety in the wake of a damaged aircraft and describes their meeting again forty-seven years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 MAKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 MAKMakos, Adam
Summary: "Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMOYER, CLARENCE MAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War MakosEl-Mohtar, Amal
Summary: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Lose weight, reverse illness, fight inflammation, change your life forever"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Amen, Tana.
Summary: "Give Tana Amen two weeks and she will change your life with The Omni Diet, a science-based nutritional and lifestyle program that bridges the gap between plant-based and high-protein programs. It offers readers a simple plan that provides both: an abundance of illness-fighting nutrients from whole living foods and high quality protein to keep the brain sharp and muscles and organs functioning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 AMEContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIREight Lamas from Drepung Loseling Monast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystical Arts of Tibet 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN TIBMamas and the Papas (Musical group)
Contents: No salt on her tail -- Trip stumble and fall -- Dancing bear -- Words of love -- My heart stood still -- Dancing in the street -- I saw her again -- Strange young girls -- I can't wait -- Even if I could -- That kind of girl -- Once was a time I thought.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dunhill 0000
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK MAMSummary: Eight-year-old Ishaan can't seem to get anything right in class and gets into more trouble than is parents can handle. They pack him off to boarding school to 'be disciplined, ' and his art teacher, Nikumbh, realizes that something is wrong and sets out to discover what it is. With time, patience, and care, Nikumbh helps Ishann find himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010