Yagi, Emi
Summary: "When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups-because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGDemi.
Summary: A poor young boy in China yearns for wealth and power, until a magician gives him a magic pillow that brings dreams of what would happen if his wishes came true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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Summary: Ping, a painter of dragons--of which he is secretly afraid--is challenged to seek the truth, find the truth, and dare to be true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2007
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Summary: Two rascals sell a vain Chinese emperor an invisible suit of clothes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McElderry Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEMAdeleke, Remi
Summary: "When a mysterious former South African commando, Lucas Van Groot, begins taking wealthy hostages all over the world, it appears at first to be a typical ransom gambit. However, it soon becomes clear that his "Hostage Inc." venture is manipulating worldwide stock markets and threatening global economic collapse. Enter Black Box, the CIA's elite, secret special operations branch--so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC ADEEdugyan, 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 EDUGathegi, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Summary: "Using the myth of Eurydice as a structure, this riveting science fiction novel is set in a near-future London where it has become popular for folks to have a small implant that allows one access to a more robust social media experience directly as an augmented reality. However, the British government has taken oversight of this access to an extreme, slowly tilting towards a dystopian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OHAdamolekun, Temi
Summary: "This empowering board book inspires young readers to use their own special voice to make a difference in the world. If you want to make a difference, but you don't know where to start, begin by searching way deep down to find what's in your heart Whether your voice shines through singing, drawing, or dancing--whether it's soft or loud, kind or proud--everyone has a voice that can effect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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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: Fiction Edugyan 2018Kayode, Femi
Summary: When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder of three university students in remote Port Harcourt, he has no idea that he's about to be enveloped by a perilous case that is far from cold. Philip is not a detective. He's an investigative psychologist, an academic more interested in figuring out the why of a crime than actually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Comany 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAYMcKay, Ami
Summary: The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, Eyimofe (This Is My Dream) traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers--Mofe (Jude Akuwudike), an electrician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN EYISher, Emil
Summary: A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEMcKay, Ami
Summary: Moth is sold into servitude by her mother, and when Moth escapes she finds her mother gone, and she must survive on her own in the murky world of the Bowery, until she meets Miss Everett, the proprietress of an Infant School, a brothel that caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for willing and clean companions, desirable young virgins like Moth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKColter, Eli.
Summary: The life of Hawke Travis began when the West was young. He was born on the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and moved West with his family when he was nine years old. Even at that young age, he became a good shot. Times were hard but Hawke dreamed of something better. He was sent to live with an uncle in Iowa, where he gained some education, improved his gunmanship, and met a friend called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDUPolonsky, Ami.
Summary: "Grayson, a transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POLSummary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN RURFerris, Emil
Summary: "Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MYSummary: How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHAFadugba, Femi
Summary: Today; During arguably the worst week of Esso's life, an accident knocks him into an incredible world--a place beyond space or time, where he can see glimpses of the past and future. But if what he sees there is true, he might not have much longer to live, unless he can use his new gift to change the course of history. Tomorrow; Rhia's past is filled with questions, none of which she expects a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FADKayode, Femi
Summary: "Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in a junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023