Rania
Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RanAbouzeid, Rania
Summary: This astonishing book by the prize-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid tells the tragedy of the Syrian War through the dramatic stories of four young people seeking safety and freedom in a shattered country. Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9 ABOSummary: Practice the ancient art of belly dance to get into shape. Presents belly dance movements that help promote weight loss by leading the dancer through a variety of vibrant movements, or "shimmies". By stimulating the cardiovascular system, belly dancing thoroughly exercises the whole body, and is low impact.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Home Media 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.715 BELBallour, Amani
Summary: "This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALLOUR, AMANI BALRani, Hania
Contents: Eden -- Sun -- Hawaii oslo -- Pour trois -- Biesy -- Luka -- Glass -- Today it came -- Esja -- Now, run
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RANRani, Hania
Contents: Oltre terra -- Hello -- Don't break my heart (feat. Duncan Bellamy) -- 24.03 -- Dancing with ghosts (feat. Patrick Watson) -- A day in never -- Whispering house (feat. Olafur Arnalds) -- The boat -- Moans -- Thin line (feat. Duncan Bellamy) -- Komeda -- Utrata -- Nostalgia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RANFanga.
Summary: Groundbreaking musical experience pickingkey tracks from Fanga's back catalogue and re-structuring them around a unique fusion of Gnawa Afrobeat & Funk. Gnawa a unique genre, first surfaced on cassette around 1975 has become a central music culture to Morocco.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: STRUT RECORDS 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FANAranya.
Summary: In this unique book, Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. Linking theory to practice, he places the ethics, principles, philosophies, tools and techniques directly into the context of the process itself. While written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has plenty to offer the more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 ARARissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Contents: Promises (4:03) -- Run for cover (3:38) -- Time and tide (4:03) -- Freeze thaw (3:57) -- From now on (3:45) -- New day for you (4:27) -- Prime time TV (5:20) -- Astrud (4:39) -- How dare you (3:22) -- Miles away (4:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BASForbes, Grania.
Summary: On 4 August 1999, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday! The Queen Mother's life thus tells in its own distinctive way the story of the twentieth century, and as the years pass, she is increasingly venerated as 'a beloved national institution.' Forbes, a British journalist specializing in the royal family, offers a pictorial biography that, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 ELIZakaria, Rafia
Summary: "A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ZAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ZAKAnika
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANIAnika.
Contents: Terry -- Yang Yang -- End of the world -- Masters of war -- Officer officer -- Sadness hides the sun -- No one's there -- I go to sleep -- Masters of war (dub).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stones Throw Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANIBishara, Rawia
Summary: Draws on the author's Palestinian-Arab family life and her experiences as the owner of Brooklyn's Tanoreen restaurant to present a collection of Middle-Eastern recipes, including red snapper in grape leaves and cheese knafeh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Natl Book Network 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 BISGrover, Razia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roli Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 726.209 GROZakaria, Rafia
Summary: "A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ZAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCFBania, Michael
Summary: On a beautiful Arctic morning when Kumak and his family go ice fishing, Kumak hooks what seems like an enormous fish, and the entire village gets involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult BaniaChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAUDRY, RABIA CHAHedengren, Sania
Summary: Vintage clothing, vintage decor -- it simply never gets old and continues to be one of the hottest style trends! Now, you too can create a beautiful vintage home environment that is sure to be the envy all your peers. In The Whimsical Home, master crafters, Sania and Susanna, show us five different homes furnished with different vintage pieces. Each chapter ends with tips to achieve these fun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 HEDChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHABranigan, Tania
Summary: "'It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,' Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.056 BRAZamorsky, Tania.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction ZamorskySzado, Ania.
Summary: In fashion-driven 1940s New York, ambitious fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle falls for French expatriate writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, while the author's estranged Salvadoran wife, Consuelo, is determined to win him back at all costs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013