Chee, Traci
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEContents: Progeny -- The wheat -- The battle -- Earth -- Sorrow -- To Zucchabar -- Patricide -- The emperor is dead -- The might of Rome -- Strength and honor -- Reunion -- Slaves to Rome -- Barbarian horde -- Am I not merciful? -- Elysium -- Honor him -- Now we are free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2000
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Summary: "What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle." -- page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KABMansell, Clint.
Contents: I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone -- Becomes the color -- Happy birthday (A death in the family) -- Uncle Charlie -- A whistling tune from a lonely man -- The hunter and the game -- Blossoming-- -- Summer wine -- A family affair -- Becoming-- -- Duet -- Crawford Institute (Family secrets) -- Il trovatore. Stride la vampa / Verdi -- The hunter plays the game -- In full bloom --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milan Entertainment 2013
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Contents: Free (1:48) -- Loves missing (4:19) -- Sonali (3:30) -- James Bond (4:31) -- Dirty Sanchez (4:21) -- Glow in the dark (3:57) -- Page (4:08) -- We are the people (3:13) -- Do not go gentle into that good night (1:48) -- The dawn (2:08).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POPEbadi, Shirin
Summary: "For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBADI, SHIRIN EBAOrleck, Annelise
Summary: "The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from Baja California to Bangladesh, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 ORLSummary: A commemorative edition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly offers insight into the world's shared views about the rights of all people, with illustrations by artists from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books in association with Amnesty International 2008
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Contents: Power to move ya (3:36) -- Free like we want 2 B (4:47) -- Today (3:18) -- Water and oil (3:28) -- Live it up (3:17) -- Tipsy Dazy (4:13) -- Bygones (4:43) -- Hand to mouth (5:20) -- In the flow (4:29) -- Don't go nowhere (5:51) -- G7 (3:03) -- Keep on (3:23) -- Beautiful Mother Nature (4:56).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MARDel Rey, Lana
Summary: Features eleven songs, including singles 'Let Me Love You Like A Woman' and the title track.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DELFaizal, Hafsah
Summary: In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old Zafira and the sultan's son Nasir continue their quest to uncover a lost magic artifact and discover that the prize they seek may be even more dangerous than any of their enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAISummary: "We are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our dignity, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black Americans subvert and resist life-threatening forces as a matter of course. In these pages, Solomon and Rankin bring together leading Black voices who offer wisdom on how they fight White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 HOWThayer, Samuel.
Summary: We are surrounded by free groceries that we have never tasted and do not recognize. Learn to identify these fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables, as well as how to find them and prepare them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forager's Harvest 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.3 THATanabe, Gen S.
Contents: ch. 1. How to get free cash for college. Scholarships are not just for superstars -- Why most scholarship books and websites can be so frustrating -- The mind-boggling cost of a good education -- Seven scholarship myths busted -- Advice from a scholarship judge : how we choose our scholarship winners -- What about federal financial aid? -- The big disadvantage of federal financial aid --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SuperCollege 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.3 TANBock, Laszlo.
Summary: ""We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 BOCThee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Contents: Fuck off get free (for the island of Montreal) -- Austerity blues -- Take away these early grave blues -- Little ones run -- What we loved was not enough -- Rains thru the roof at thee grande ballroom (for capital steez).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Constellation 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THEBlackstone, Amy
Summary: "From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog "we're {not} having a baby," and nationally recognized expert on the childfree choice comes a definitive investigation into the history and current growing movement of adults choosing to forgo parenthood: what it means for our society, economy, environment, perceived gender roles, and legacies, and how understanding and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019