Tsuge, Yoshiharu
Summary: "Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSUFujiwara, Maki
Summary: "In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband, the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. "I wanted to record our family's daily life while our son, Shosuke, was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor, I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FUJIWARA, MAKI FUJKlebold, Sue
Summary: "The mother of one of the two shooters at Columbine High School draws on personal recollections, journal entries and video recordings to piece together what led to her son's unpredicted breakdown and share insights into how other families might recognize warning signs,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEBOLD, SUE KLEMacy, Sue.
Summary: A photographic biography of Annie Oakley, discussing her early life, her prowess with a gun, her stint with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and her enduring image in movies, books, television shows, and plays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OAKHarmon, Mark
Summary: Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Select 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.12 HARPrideaux, Sue.
Contents: Shy souls, 1863 and before -- Never more to be parted, 1864-1868 -- Growing up in Kristiania, 1869-1875 -- The blood-red banner, 1876-1877 -- Losing faith, 1878-1881 -- 'I have decided to become an artist', 1879-1881 -- 'No more brown sauce', 1882-1885 -- A calculated seduction, 1885 -- A few drinks before breakfast, 1883-1886 -- Soap art and soul art, 1886 -- And virtue is a sham, 1886-1889 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUNCH, EDVARD PrideauxMacy, Sue
Summary: Presents the story of the man who founded the National Yiddish Book Center, and describes the worldwide effort he currently leads to collect unwanted Yiddish books and save the Yiddish language from extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LANMacy, Sue.
Summary: Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROERoe, Sue.
Summary: A group portrait of the Impressionist artists traces how the movement's early leaders met in the studios of Paris and lived and worked together closely for several years, supporting one another through a series of emotional and financial difficulties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 ROELemmey, Huw
Summary: "Part revisionist history, part historical biography, Bad Gays is based on the hugely popular podcast series. The book subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality, and identity through its villains and baddies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 LEMEdwards, Sue Bradford
Summary: Discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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Kidd, Sue Monk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIDD, SUE KIDBuzzeo, Toni
Summary: "From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: "Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to land. The world taught Tasha that her Korean normal was a barrier to belonging--that assimilation was the only way she would ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Momentum, a nonfiction imprint Tyndale House Publishers 2023