Madassane, Ahmoudou
Summary: "Zerzura offered an opportunity to try something new, taking Tuareg guitar into noise, drone, and ambient. This free-form session forgoes the creation of 'songs, ' for the creation of the soundscapes. Maybe not surprisingly, these ambient pieces were already present in the genre, hiding in plain sight. Ahmoudou developed and drew on the 'practice notes' or segue that come before a song;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ZERHama
Contents: Terroir -- Houmeissa -- Dounia -- Bororo -- Wassa -- Takamba -- Touareg -- Baoura -- Takamba (remix) -- Yeta yeta.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN HAMLe Clezio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave)
Summary: After being driven from their land by French colonial soldiers in 1909, Nour and his people, "the blue men" must search for a haven out of the desert that will shelter them. Interspersed with the story of Nour is the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendent of the blue men, who lives in Morocco and tries to stay true to the blood of her ancestors while experiencing life as a modern immigrant.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECReynolds, Jan
Summary: "Describes the way of life of the Tuaregs, a nomadic culture that presently exists in the Sahara, the world's largest desert"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JN WLD ReynoldsColfer, Eoin
Summary: "Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Imagine over three million square miles of sand dunes that are as tall as a ten-story building. That place is real -- it's the Sahara Desert! Vast, yes! And home to fascinating creatures such as ostriches and fennec foxes as well as amazing plant life. Readers will also learn about the famous trade routes of the past with caravans of up to 10,000 camels, European explorers to the region (some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 966 FABBenanav, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966 BENSawhney, Nitin
Contents: Broken skin (5:05) -- Letting go (5:37) -- Homelands (6:57) -- The pilgrim (5:22) -- Tides (5:54) -- Nadia (5:48) -- Immigrant (7:17) -- Serpents (7:16) -- Anthem without nation (7:22) -- Nostalgia (3:50) -- The conference (3:18) -- Beyohnd skin (4:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Outcaste Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAWSummary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003Okorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Niger, West Africa, 2077. Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to the peaks of the Aïr Mountains, cartwheels into a wild megacity—you get the idea. I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none. This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: M'envoyer des fleurs (Sandrine Kiberlain) (2:33) -- Grano de arena (Marta Topferova) (4:23) -- Sunnyroad (Emiliana Torrini) (3:03) -- Não se apavore (Luca Mundaca) (4:35) -- Bida mariadu (Lura) (4:51) -- Sekna (Mona) (3:37) -- Tuca' la louna (Tamara Obrovac) (3:16) -- Ola ta aiskola (Anastasia Moutsatsou) (2:36) -- Paula Ausente (Marta Gómez) (3:57) -- Wa (Kaïssa) (3:18) -- One voice (Wailin'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT PUTTinariwen (Musical group)
Contents: Toumast tincha (4:26) -- Chaghaybou (4:56) -- Arhegh danagh (4:09) -- Timadrit in Sahara (4:02) -- Imidiwan ahi sigdim (4:54) -- Tahalamot (5:13) -- Sendad eghlalan (5:04) -- Imdiwanin ahi tifhamam (4:42) -- Koud edhaz emin (4:36) -- Emajer (3:42) -- Aghregh medin (4:18).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TINGroup Doueh
Contents: Zayna jumma -- Ishadlak ya khey -- Zaya koum -- Met-ha -- Jagwar doueh -- Aziza -- Ana lakweri -- Wazan doueh.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sublime Frequencies 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN GROHutcheson, Cory Thomas
Summary: "Filled with history, tools, and spiritual beliefs, this new entry in Llewellyn's Complete Book Series showcases the rich and varied magical traditions of North America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Ahmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOSakamoto, Shintarō.
Contents: In a phantom mood -- You just decided -- My memories fade -- Mask on mask -- A stick and slacks -- A gleam of hope -- Dancing with pain -- Album version / Something's different -- How to live with a phantom -- Small but enough.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Music Recording Co. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAKContents: Jackdaws playing in the water -- King Chu sheds his armor -- Sound from the Chen and Sui Dynasties -- Han Palace autumn moon -- Song of the northern frontier. Nostalgia for the palace ; Zhao Jun's lament ; Lonely woman room (The tears of Lady Xiang) -- Zhao Jun crosses the frontier pass -- Spring, river, flower, moon, night
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN XIAFrench, Howard W.
Summary: "[Howard French] takes us inside Nigeria, Liberia, Mali, and the Congo, examining ... the legacy of colonization in the lives of contemporary Africans"--jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.032 FRREShopsin, Tamara
Summary: "'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHOPSIN, TAMARA SHOContents: Afous dafous (03:12) -- Yahoye (03:21) -- Leiliya (04:16) -- Asaharaden (06:02) -- Haoua (01:14) -- Amankor (04:45) -- Tarhanin (04:28) -- Akaline (04:19) -- Tamat (04:23) -- Tanminak (05:22) -- Tiliaden n'asahara (03:27) -- Efaghane (06:29).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TARCoonts, Stephen
Summary: When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, he investigates-and finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COO S #1Lewis, Axel
Summary: The fourth leg of the robot races requires Jimmy and the other contestants to navigate a route through the Sahara Desert--without a navigation system.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013