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2) Salt houses
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being of her beloved baby brother, Dorian, safe in her distant family home. Flash forward to a post-incident America, where the country has been broken up into territories and...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1966.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"It's April 1948, and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family's orange tree; the next he is swept away into a life of exile and rage. Seeking a new beginning in swinging-Sixties London, Salim finds an unexpected love with Jude, a troubled Jewish girl struggling with her own devastating family legacy. The bond between them flourishes in the freedom of the age, bringing the promise...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Teaching human sexuality from a perspective that information and pleasure are top priorities, divorced mom Ruth Ramsey butts heads with the local soccer coach, a divorced former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the remote grasslands of Mongolia, a magnificent landscape little changed since the time of Genghis Khan.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xix, 645 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An independent New York foodie accompanies her husband to his home in Mumbai, where her ex-pat sense of adventure is tested by the unexpected arrival of her headstrong mother-in-law.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxv, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Insightful, funny, and sometimes tragic look at the collision of two different cultures featuring astonishingly beautiful scenery, a haunting score by Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman, and a memorable supporting turn by Judy Davis.
16) Bollywood hero
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chris Kattan is fed-up with not being taken seriously by Hollywood, so he accepts an offer to star in a big-time Mumbai production called 'Peculiar Dancing Boy'. But before he can conquer India, Chris will have to survive a whole new land of culture clashes, jealous rivals, runaway egos, power-hungry starlets, and extreme dancing lessons.
17) Casablanca beats
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a former rapper takes a job teaching at a community center in an underprivileged neighborhood in Casablanca, he encourages his young students to express themselves through hip-hop in spite of the restrictive traditions of their culture.
18) Go back to China
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When spoiled Sasha Li blows through half her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.
19) El naranjo
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Description
Cinco relatos donde Martin II, hijo de Cortes con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martin I; Polibio de Megalopolis reflexiona sobre Escipion Emiliano; un galan de Hollywood visita un prostibulo de enanas en Acapulco; y un marinero genoves cuenta mentiras sobre el Nuevo Mundo. Caen los templos, las insignias, los trofeos. Caen los mismisimos dioses. Y con sus restos humeantes se reinventa el orden mientras las...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient,...
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