Phan, Zoya.
Summary: Zoya Phan escaped the Burmese army in her native jungle and a Thai refugee camp to become the spokesperson of the Free Burma movement.--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.105 PHAN, ZOYA PHAMcCaulley, Esau
Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCKikuchi, Hideyuki.
Summary: A vital piece of information regarding a "person of great interest" to D sends him galloping across a dangerous desert. He is tailed by Granny Viper, the people finder, who needs to cross the desert herself to bring home one of the Hidden, someone once imprisoned by a Noble. Doubtful that they can make it through the journey alive, Granny ingratiates themselves to D, hoping that the vampire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Digital Manga Publishing 2011
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Brooks, Terry
Summary: "The riveting conclusion not only to the Fall of Shannara but to the entire Shannara series--a truly landmark event, twenty-nine books and forty-three years in the making. Bringing a conclusion to an epic that has spanned centuries is a vast undertaking, but Terry Brooks is entirely equal to the challenge. As the Four Lands reels under a brutal invasion from across the sea, spearheaded by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROLewis, Damien.
Summary: "An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts--ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5449 LEWOh Land
Contents: Perfection -- Break the chain -- Sun of a gun -- Voodoo -- Lean -- Wolf & I -- Human -- White nights -- Helicopter -- We turn it up -- Rainbow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OHColfer, Chris
Summary: "Queen Red Riding Hood from the Land of Stories gives advice and makes observations on how to rule"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION COLColfer, Chris
Summary: "Mother Goose from The Land of Stories relates her adventures throughout history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLNever Land Pirate Band
Contents: Ahoy Ahoy (2:45) -- Lead The Way Jake (2:02) -- Pirate Rock Recipe (2:42) -- Gold Doubloons (1:58) -- Tiki Tree Limbo (2:12) -- Pirate Island Hideout (2:35) -- Bubbly Blue (2:37) -- The Codfish Reel (2:01) -- Hook's Hooks (2:11) -- Belay (2:21) -- Never Bugs (2:06) -- Rattle Yer Bones (2:08) -- Bootbuckle (2:09) -- X (3:00) -- Starfish Serenade (2:21) -- Buccaneer Bike Ride (2:22) -- Pirate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2013
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Ishiguro, Kazuo
Summary: "An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISHBirney, Betty G.
Summary: "Og the frog goes to summer camp with his best pal Humphrey, and has an exciting adventure in the wild"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIRBirney, Betty G
Summary: Og loves the kids in Room 26, but he's awfully curious about the human world outside his tank! His friend Humphrey has no problem getting out and about, but it's harder for Og because he can't climb the way a hamster can. But Og never let hard work or fear stop him from going after what he wants. And he's determined to help the tads in Room 26 understand that taking risks can pay off --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIRNimura, Janice P.
Summary: "In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors-- Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda-- grew up as typical American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952 NIMRobinson, Nell
Contents: My last days on earth -- Johnny has gone for a soldier -- Andalusia 1919 -- Waiting for the Boys to come home -- Blue-eyed Boston boy -- One morning in May -- Scots Irish -- Brooklyn 1866 -- Drive on -- Happy to go -- Brooklyn 1944 -- Heroes -- Washington D.C. 1932 -- The forgotten soldier boy -- Poppies -- The rose of no man's land -- Wahatchee -- Grove Hill 2012 -- Stateside -- American Anthem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nell Robinson Music 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ROBSummary: Long ago, the oceans were home to all living things. Then some creatures moved ashore. But how? This program outlines the stages of natural selection that enabled water-dwelling animals and plants to survive, and then thrive, on land. Key evolutionary innovations such as exoskeletons and endoskeletons, legs and feet, cold blood and warm blood, lungs, hard-shelled eggs, fur, and live young are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Birney, Betty G.
Summary: "Og the Frog tells the story of how he first came to Room 26, where he meets Humphrey the hamster, befriends the students, and writes poems and songs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BIRLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 LUXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk LuxenbergSteinberg, Robin
Summary: "How would you like to be judged for the rest of your life by the worst thing you've ever done? We all think we are compassionate just like we all think we are honest. But true compassion is not innate. Compassion for others, especially those that we don't know or understand, must be learned. Our lack of compassion is perhaps most extreme in the exercise of criminal justice, where a person's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Optimism Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 340.092 STEJenkins, Jedidiah
Summary: "From travel writer and Instagram phenomenon Jedidiah Jenkins, a long-awaited memoir of adventure, failure, and lessons learned while bicycling the 10,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia. On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being sucked into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent the next sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 JENBiss, Eula.
Summary: A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BISOno, Yōko.
Summary: Yoko Ono continues an astonishing bout of creativity with a new album. Among the special guests on Take Me To The Land of Hell are ?uestlove, Lenny Kravitz, Nels Cline, and tUnEyArDs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chimera Music 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONOHuler, Scott.
Summary: Details the author's efforts to retrace the footsteps of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca as recorded in "The Odyssey," following the Greek hero on his journey around the Mediterranean to discover why this tale continues to resonate with Western readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HULPower, Carla
Summary: "Nicola, Christianne, and Marie are mothers who discovered too late that their sons had been radicalized online and had flown from the West to join the tens of thousands of foreign ISIS fighters in Syria. Too often extremists are portrayed as having sprung from the earth as irredeemable killing machines, but these women underscore the deeper truth that no one is born a terrorist, and they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 POWMadeleine, Laura
Summary: She can no longer cope. And just as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away. Her journey leads her to a tiny seaside village in the South of France. Taken in by cafe owner Maman and her twenty-year-old son, Emeline discovers a world completely new to her: of oranges, olives and wild herbs, the raw, rich tastes of the land....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2018