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Barbados Barbados Fiction Board books Hostages Japan Tokyo Large type books Murder Rescue work Slavery Slavery FictionCarle, Eric.
Summary: A picture book written half in English and half in Japanese introduces a group of characters who join one another on the way to see their friends, and eventually all meet in the middle in an eight-page gatefold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CARAki, Evi
Summary: In Flavors of Africa, Evi Aki shares the traditional Nigerian dishes she grew up enjoying, as well as typical eats from all across the continent. She introduces customary recipes from each of Africa's different regions, including meals from Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Angola and more, all of which she collected with the help of relatives and family friends. Whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishng Co. 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 BRIKitamura, Satoshi
Summary: A rabbit in a hat performs a magic show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KITKitamura, Satoshi.
Summary: A UFO loses its way in space and settles down on a strange blue planet where it meets a young boy and they become friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KITKitamura, Katie M.
Summary: Cal, the only mixed martial arts fighter to take legendary fighter Rivera the distance, and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with Rivera, four years later. In the three fraught days leading up to this momentous match, each privately begins to doubt that Cal can win. The men strive to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITBerk, Ari.
Summary: Chiro, a young bat, is nervous about flying into the world for the first time without his mother, especially on a very dark night, but he soon learns to rely on his "song" to find his way and stay safe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERKitamura, Katie M.
Summary: "A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITKitahara, Teruhisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 688.7221 KITKitahara, Teruhisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 3019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 688.728 KITImamura, Natsuko
Summary: "A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmarried women, one of whom manipulates the other from afar, by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IMAKitamura, Katie M.
Summary: "A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kitamura 2021Summary: The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDArvizu, Ersi.
Contents: Windows of dreams -- El arbol -- En el tambo -- Mi India -- Sin tu querer -- Friend for life -- In the closet -- Soledad (ya no puede ser) -- Angel de mil voces -- Mil besos -- Cruisin' to the hop -- Dichoso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ARVGathegi, Edi
Summary: Set in the year 2016 individualists Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden may have the power to spark a revolution in America in the midst of an economic disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ATL RATED PG-13Tamura, Yumi.
Summary: Rescue workers Rei and Uozumi were looking for earthquake survivors when they uncovered man-made violence. Then their squad was attacked and murdered. Some secret lurks in those ruins. To find it, Rei and Uozumi join a privately funded hostage rescue organization run out of a Tokyo bar called Chicago. They help people while they look for their own salvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIKawamura, Yayo
Summary: Invites readers to find Fuzzy Penguin as she watches the baby chicks hatch, swims with her friends, and goes fishing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2019
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Summary: A journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making. Why is it so difficult to end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone "important"? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there's danger involved? Here, organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer these questions and more....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 BRAEdugyan, Esi
Summary: Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EDUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EDUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Edugyan 2018Larkin, Geri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3444 LARTamura, Yumi.
Summary: When rescue workers try to help Tokyo after a great earthquake, Rei discovers that the team's members are murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIEdugyan, Esi.
Summary: "From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, a boy rises from the ashes of slavery in the 1830s to become a free man of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EDUSummary: Traditionally, when a witch turns fifteen, she's supposed to go out into the world alone to study magic. Makoto's parents, however, believe that their directionally-challenged daughter should get a high school degree. Instead of being sent out on her own, Makoto and her cat Chito find themselves traveling from the bustling city of Yokohama to Aomori Prefecture, where they'll stay with relatives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021