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Alternative rock music Arab countries Politics and government 21st century Forensic accounting Fiction Jia, Pingwa Middle East History 21st century Middle East Politics and government 21st century Missing persons Fiction Protest movements Arab countries Rock music Social change Middle East 21st centurySummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIWildhart
Contents: Shake off -- Heal -- Broken flowers -- Fantasy -- Lost -- Is it possible -- Stuck in a second -- Alley -- We made up a dream -- Shine
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILSummary: Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OMAMonterey Media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MonteMisia.
Contents: Garras dos sentidos (4:07) -- Dan=ca de mGagoas (4:12) -- EstGatua falsa (3:22) -- Fado do retorno (3:26) -- Nenhuma estrala caGiu (4;26) -- Litania (3:36) -- NSao me chamem pelo nome (4:16) -- Sete luas (3:18) -- Sou de vidro (3:30) -- Fado do retorno II (3:21) -- Da vida quero os sinais (3:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Detour 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MISMedia Jeweler
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MEDField Medic
Contents: Used 2 be a romantic -- I was wrong -- The bottle's my lover, she's just my friend -- Henna tattoo -- Hello moon -- Tournament horseshoe -- Songs r worthless now -- Mood ring baby -- Everyday's 2moro -- Help me forget...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIEMadia, Brianna
Summary: "In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later ... the son appeared. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJMejia, Mindy
Summary: Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. When she's found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mejia 2016Spaceship Media (Organization)
Summary: "Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can complete strangers representing every point along the political divide engage in civil and productive discourse on the topic of gun control?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GUNMejia, Mindy
Summary: "Nora Trier catches thieves. As a forensic accountant and partner in her downtown Minneapolis firm, she's unearthed millions in every corner of the world. She prides herself on her independence, the most essential currency of accounting, until her firm is hired by Strike. An anti-corporate, feminist athletic empire, Strike is owned by Logan Russo, a brash and legendary kickboxer, and her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJElia, Maria
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 ELICelia
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light IN The Attic 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CELSummary: To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Entertainment One U.S. 2011
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio State University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 RINSummary: Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.84 WORBishara, Cristin
Summary: When Samira receives a strange vase with some ancient coins, she and her sister Rima are pulled into Baalbek, a Phoenician underworld where they are caught up in the a struggle between deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls--and Eshmun, who wants his obol, his burial coin, back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BISMejia, Mindy
Summary: "When her husband's car is found abandoned and on fire-in the middle of a rainstorm-police suspect that Eve Roth had something to do with it. After all, her husband was suspended from the University of Iowa for inappropriate conduct with a student, and who else but an atmospheric physicist could incinerate a car in a downpour? But Eve has no idea why her husband disappeared. She's desperate to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEJMejia, Mindy
Summary: "Nora Trier catches thieves. As a forensic accountant and partner in her downtown Minneapolis firm, she's unearthed millions in every corner of the world. She prides herself on her independence, the most essential currency of accounting, until her firm is hired by Strike. An anti-corporate, feminist athletic empire, Strike is owned by Logan Russo, a brash and legendary kickboxer, and her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEJSummary: See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SINGeorge, Kaylin Melia
Summary: "When Ano, a courageous young girl, begins to dance the hula--a storytelling dance form that carries the knowledge, history and folklore of the Hawaiian people, she comes to understand the true meaning of aloha"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring their parents to let them be together, sharing their secrets and desires and private jokes. Then Selasi begins to change, becoming hostile and quiet; her grades suffer and she builds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDMedie, Peace A.
Summary: A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she comes to live in Accra, Ghana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020