Sarita Choudhury
1) The namesake
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Interpreter of Maladies: These eight stories take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
“Glorious.... Showcases a considerable talent in full bloom.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother...
“Glorious.... Showcases a considerable talent in full bloom.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (11 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An unexpected discovery forces an undocumented motel employee to make a life changing decision. Starring ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK actress Diane Guerrero, and HOMELAND actress Sarita Choudhury, the second short of award-winning director Sonejuhi Sinha had its world premiere in Cannes at the Shorts Critics' Week 2015.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (397 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The iconic characters and world of Sex and the City are the exciting jumping off point for this all-new series, which finds Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte navigating the complicated reality of friendship, family, and New York in their 50s.
9) After Yang
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his young daughter's beloved A.I companion malfunctions, Jake uncovers details of the robot's previously unknown life hidden in the android's interior core. A secret stash of video memories suddenly leads Jake to surprising discoveries about himself and his family in this mysterious and haunting sci-fi film. Scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of his final films & based on the short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 584 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In her new role as a CIA station chief, Carrie convinces Saul and Quinn to help her hunt down one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. But when Carrie recruits a young Pakistani as an asset, the lines between right and wrong blur and the operation spins out of control. Facing unclear loyalties at every turn, Carrie must take extreme measures and risk everything to protect her country.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
13) Subway stories
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the adventures that await those who venture into New York's serpentine subway system.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1127
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mina Nair's Mississippi Masala, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner (Denzel...
15) 3 a.m
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trio of taxi drivers works the graveyard shift. All are haunted by their pasts; all are struggling to make ends meet. When a fellow cabbie is murdered and it becomes apparent it is the work of a serial killer, these three friends wonder if their next shift could be their last.
16) Innocence
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a surfing accident, 16-year-old Beckett and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to Manhattan and attempt to piece together their shattered life. Now enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton preparatory school, her psychosis and hallucinations intensify with the dubious suicides of current and past students, as does her first love for Tobey Crawford.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Tom Hammond's briefcase was the last photograph taken of him and his son Luke. A moment of happiness caught on camera: father and son at a dinner together days before Christmas. The photo was to become Tom's most treasured possession, for the day after, his son Luke boarded Pan Am flight 103 to New York. Tom decides to hunt down the thieves and to find the last photograph.