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Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim

Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJO

Ottaviani, Jim

Summary: "The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space. It took years to catch up, but soon NASA's first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA's first mixed gender class, had the challenging task of convincing the powers that be that a woman's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 OTT

Terry, Jim

Summary: "A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 TER

Ottaviani, Jim

Summary: Introduces the lives and work of three eminent primatologists, sharing insights into their educations under mentor Louis Leakey while exploring their pivotal contributions to twentieth-century natural science.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, First Second 2015

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Di Bartolo, Jim

Summary: Presents a biography of the martial arts legend, describing his childhood in Hong Kong and how it was shaped by World War II, and his success as an international star.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEE

Kim, Carol

Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANN

Aliu, Akim

Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALI

Krans, Kim

Summary: "Visionary artist and New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and infertility in the throes of a health and wellness-obsessed culture, touching on the healing potentials of creativity and spirituality"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Krans

Kim, Hyun Sook

Summary: "The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KIM

Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk

Summary: "The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023

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