Lapite, Shade
Summary: In this thrilling Afro-fantasy, the first set in the lush, opulent kingdom of Galla, a girl raised in secret must leave her sheltered rural home for the subtle dangers of the royal court, where she becomes caught up in deadly power struggles and romantic intrigue. Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the forested East after her parents were outed as enemies of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAPHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURSuggs, Christine
Summary: "In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SUGSummary: Follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions as they travel through Middle Earth towards Mount Doom in the quest to finally destroy the one ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORSummary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLAMatula, Christina
Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONMara (Musical group)
Contents: Call from the south (6:17) -- To my first love (2:11) -- A curse on you strange places ; Harvest (4:42) -- All summer (part one) (3:43) -- Hey harvesters (part two) (0:57) -- A shepherd plays (1:57) -- He plays (part three) (1:33) -- Travelling light (9:51) -- Autumn ; Grape picking (4:53) -- On the grapevines (part one) (3:07) -- Sorrow suppressed (part two) (0:56) -- Eyes like berries (1:48)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARGoodman, Carly
Summary: "In 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery became part of U.S. immigration policy. As with many U.S. immigration policies over the years, the actual lived experience of the lottery generated unintended and unexpected consequences, becoming more powerful and important than its creators could envision. Dreamland tells the story of the lottery, correcting the sometimes willful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 GOOFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISSummary: As tears go by: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2021
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Summary: Jorge el curioso aprende a usar sus sentidos del olfato, del oído y del tacto para entrenar el mejor de sus sentidos: ¡el gusto para los caramelos de una piñata!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J Spanish CuriousSummary: Portable and instantly accessible to all age groups. Bongos have been used in every type ofmusic genre, from Marvin Gaye to tech house and everything in between.If you have everdrummed a desk at work or stopped your child from banging the dinner table, then it’s only rightto turn a time killer into a talent and pick up a bongo today.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: RockJam
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMChang, Jung
Summary: The most famous sisters in China, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power during a time of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations. Red Sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen; Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Big Sister, Ei-Ling, became Chiang's unofficial main adviser, and made herself one of China's richest women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CHAKortlander, Max
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Maurice Richmond Music Co. Inc. 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSegundo, Compay.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Galaxy Music 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SEGSummary: In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, sending shockwaves around the world. Through first-person accounts of the disaster and eyewitness footage, experience the terrifying power of the eruption and the devastating tsunami that struck the shores of Tonga.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HIDConjunto de Arpa Grande Arpex
Contents: Espinas del alma : canción ranchera = Thorns in the soul (2:36) -- El huilotero : valona = The dove hunter (4:15) -- El perro : son = The dog (2:14) -- El son de Sánchez : modern son (2:56) -- Vuela, paloma : canción ranchera = Fly, dove (3:01) -- La recién casada : son = The newlywed woman (3:22) -- La godornia : minuete = The quail (2:49) -- Paseando por Michoacán : modern son = Going around...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CONSegundo, Compay.
Contents: El camisón de pepa (3;51) -- Tú querías jugar (4:03) -- Desdichado (5:58) -- La ternera (3:27) -- Para vigo me voy (5:08) -- Fidelidad (3:20) -- Cuba y España (6:38) -- Es mejor vivir así (3:34) -- Frutas del Caney (3:04) -- La juma del ayer (4:43) -- Linda Graciela (4:25) -- La pluma (2:51) -- Juliancito (Tu novia te botó) (4:41) -- Son de negros en Cuba (4:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMCamperos de Valles (Musical group)
Contents: El aguanieve = The mist (3:13) -- El fandanguito = The little fandango (3:15) -- El llorar = The cry (3:25) -- El gusto = The pleasure (3:44) -- La huasanga = Huastecan fiesta (3:13) -- La llorona = The crying woman (2:10) -- El zacamandú (4:15) -- La rosa = The rose (2:27) -- La pasión = The passion (2:57) -- El triunfo = The triumph (2:51) -- La malagueña = The woman from Málaga (3:31) -- El...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CAMEstrellas de Areito (Musical group)
Contents: Pónganse para las cosas (10:20) ; Hasta pantojo baila mi son (11:34) ; Que traigan el guaguancó (6:27) ; Mi amanecer campesino (13:55) / Pedro Aranzola -- Llora timbero / Israel Rodríguez (7:12) -- Yo sí como candela / Luis "Lili" Martinez Griñán (10:28) -- Fefita / José Urfe (10:24) -- Guaguancó a todos los barríos / Pedro Aranzola (14:29) -- El pregón de la montaña / Pio Leyva (10:05) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ESTOchoa, Eliades.
Contents: Ay papacito = Oh little darling (4:09) -- Pintate los labios María = Put on your lipstick Maria (4:52) -- Carino falso = False love (4:07) -- Sublime ilusión (4:12) -- Volver = Return (4:09) -- Saludo compay = Greetings, friend (4:55) -- Qué humanidad = What humanity (3:56) -- Un negrito en La Habana = A black boy in Havana (3:43) -- Mi sueño prohibido = My forbidden dream (2:12) -- Mi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave World 1999