Als, Hilton.
Summary: Analyzes literature, history, culture, entertainment, race, and gender through the lens of people the author terms "white girls," including Louise Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor, Malcolm X, and Michael Jackson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeneys Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 ALSGreenway, Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREClose, Jennifer.
Summary: Attending an endless series of bridal showers for their friend Kristi, three bridesmaids struggle with private challenges, including Isabella's unhappiness at a job where she is nevertheless very successful, Mary's relationship with a man who prioritizes his mother, and Lauren's attraction to a man she despises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLOSummary: Collection of all 22 third season episodes. The season begins with Buffy in LA hiding from her friends, family and destiny, but she is forced to face what she is. Buffy ten returns to Sunnydale for her senior year to a less-than-welcoming reception. A new Slayer, Faith, comes to Sunnydale, then Angel returns from Hell. Faith's new Watcher comes to town, Spike also returns, but without Drusilla....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUFCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BuffySummary: Buffy is the chosen one to stand against vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BuffyContents: I need a doctor (Hot Snakes) -- Rhinestones (Olivia Jean) -- Take up thy stethoscope and walk (Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin) -- Matter of matter (White Denim) -- Cicada (La Luz) -- Ontology (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) -- Encrypted bounce (Thee Oh Sees) -- I can see light bend (Sonic Boom) -- Golden flower (Wooden Shjips) -- Perfume (Wand) -- Hypnagogia (Death Valley Girls) -- This side of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJBelgrave, Faye Z.
Summary: "Black girls living in predominantly White environments face unique challenges on the road to adulthood. In Finding Her Voice, three racial justice experts and advocates offer Black teen girls important self-empowerment skills, and provide activities andexercises to help teen readers challenge dominant culture, cultivate self-compassion, and build resilience in a world filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 BELTaylor, Courtney Faye
Summary: ". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TAYKuegler, Sabine.
Summary: Sabine Kuegler's childhood was far from typical. The child of German linguists and missionaries, she spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in the most remote jungles of West Papua, Indonesia. There, as her family struggled for acceptance among the tightly knit and fiercely loyal community, Sabine spent her time swimming with crocodiles, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows, and chewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUEGLER, SABINE KUETrepczynski, Savala N.
Summary: "An incisive and vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, betweenthin and fat - as a woman. The daughter of an Afro-Latinx father and a white mother, Savala's light complexion has always contrast her kinky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TREGriffin, Patty
Contents: Little God -- Truth #2 -- Boston -- Perfect white girls -- Sooner or later -- What you are -- Silver bell -- Fragile -- Mother of God -- One more girl -- Sorry and sad -- Driving -- Top of the world -- So long.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A&M/Universal 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRIContents: I will survive (remix) (Gloria Gaynor) (3:59) -- (Shake, shake, shake) shake your booty (KC & the Sunshine Band) (3:05) -- Turn the beat around (Vicki Sue Robinson) (3:23) -- Macho man (Village People) (3:26) -- We are family (Sister Sledge) (3:34) -- Flashdance-- What a feeling (Irene Cara) (3:55) -- I just want to be your everything (Andy Gibb) (3:45) -- Everlasting love (Carl Carlton) (2:35)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES PURMoyes, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYWalker, Babe.
Summary: A comic tale based on the popular Twitter feed follows the exploits of egocentric Babe Walker, who after a stint in rehab for her shopping addiction tackles such vanity challenges as achieving celebrity thinness and accepting her father's trophy girlfriend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATBarnes, Cinelle
Summary: "From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BARArce, Julissa
Summary: "Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce interweaves her own story with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of ouruniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. "You sound like a white girl." These were the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ARCWhite Fence
Contents: Vol. 1. WF/FP -- Swagger vets and double moon -- Long white curtain -- Balance your heart -- Do you know Ida no? -- Down PNX -- Take away lifes endless take -- Hope! (servatude, I have no!) -- It will never be -- Soaring, daily pique num. 2 -- A Hermes blues -- Hey! Roman nose -- Breathe again -- Daily pique -- Vol. 2. Groundskeeper rag -- She relief -- I'd sing this song -- Real smiles --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Woodsist 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHISummary: MS's of an American Indian (wearing war headdress) showing a group of scrawny white girls (some of whom wear Indian-associated accoutrements) how to shoot arrows.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1922
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Summary: "The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor"--Www.imdb.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: Learn the fundamentals of writing and performing "spoken word" poetry from some of the most accomplished poets of the movement. Includes interviews with, and performances by, the 2004 National Slam Champions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Choices, Inc. 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POEMaher, Kerri
Summary: "Some women make headlines; an icon defies them. A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAHHenry, April
Summary: Told in multiple voices, sixteen-year-old Savannah Taylor is abducted after her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape and rescue fellow prisoner Jenny Dowd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: "Cheryl loves horses. She's been studying thoroughbreds at her family's horse racing stables since she was old enough to ride on the shoulders of her father, a famous horse trainer. Cheryl wants to be a jockey. One problem -- she is a girl, and there has never been a Black female jockey in history! Jetolara is a young thoroughbred finding his place in the herd. When Cheryl literally falls onto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2023