Catalog Search Results
21) Something more
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York, an imprint of Tundra Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical first kiss and landing a spot in the school play. Within the halls of Holy Trinity High, she finds a world where things are no longer black and white and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 50 min.)
Language
English
Description
This groundbreaking documentary takes aim at a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs, from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-toting terrorists. Along the way, it offers devastating insights...
23) The pickup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julie is from an affluent white family and is always searching for new ideas and adventures. When her car breaks down in a South African city she is immediately drawn to Abdu the mechanic who comes to her aid. He has left his home and family in the north to find work in the new South Africa. As their relationship develops into passionate love, they must both confront the prejudices of their past and the uncertainties of the future. The Pickup is the...
Author
Publisher
Saqi Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This ground-breaking anthology featuresthe compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab. From a military base in the Gulf to loving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from touring overseas as a drag queen to a concert in Cairo where...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times Don’t look for me. I’ll come back when I’m ready. Pandora Madchen wrote those words when she ran off six years ago. In that time she’d become a sensation with the rock group Nemesis, toured the world, and grown up, but she never forgot the promise she made herself. Now Pandora was ready to return to the desert state of Sedikhan and the man she’d loved too soon and too much. Sheik Philip El Kabbar was a businessman whose...
28) Love from A to Z
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
29) The vow
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mo is not only eighteen-year-old Annie's best friend, he is the one who helps her cope with the loss of her older sister, so when he learns he must leave Kentucky and return to Jordan with his family, Annie suggests a shocking alternative.
30) Ajamī
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbors.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim
...Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
126 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this poetry debut, the first collection from any Gazan poet to be published in English, Mosab Abu Toha writes directly from the experience of growing up and living one's entire life in Gaza, the world's largest open-air prison camp. These poems emerge from Mosab's life under siege, first as a child, and then as a young father. A survivor of four brutal military attacks, he bears witness to a grinding cycle of destruction and assault, and yet,...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a centre of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
419 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."-Noam Chomsky"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."-The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Pueblo Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request