Downey, Tika.
Summary: Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.4 DOWBrzezinski, Mika
Summary: You've been out of the corporate world, and now you need to reboot your career. The Brzezinskis provide an indispensable guidebook for women breaking (back) into the workforce. From explaining a gap in your resume to pivoting into something new, they show you how to rewrite the narrative, get back in the game-- and win. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 BRZBrzezinski, Mika
Summary: "Prompted by her own experience as cohost of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asked a wide range of successful women to share the critical lessons they learned while moving up in their fields. Power players such as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Harvard's Victoria Budson, comedian Susie Essman, and many more shared their surprising personal stories. They spoke candidly about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 BRZMiles, Tiya
Summary: "Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILBéka.
Summary: Training ambitiously in hopes of being accepted into the National Ballet Competition in Paris, Julie, Lucy, and Alia team up against archenemy Carla while struggling to balance their dance requirements, boyfriends, and schoolwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Lesser, Rika.
Summary: A retelling of the well-known tale in which two children are left in the woods but find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JN Caldecott LesserMika, Nick
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3713 MBéka.
Summary: Reunited when school resumes and preparing for an upcoming performance of Romeo and Juliet, ballet students Julie, Luce, and Alia compete for the affections of a cute lead dancer at the risk of their friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
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Summary: Presents a pictorial look at women break dancers known as the B*Girlz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerHouse Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3 KRAWolf, Tikva
Summary: A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer issues. If your relationships or your gender are unconventional, you’ll find useful advice and plenty of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular webcomic Kimchi Cuddles. Quirky, endearing and charmingly (and sometimes painfully) realistic characters, many based on real people, explore polyamory, queer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorntree Press, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WOLBéka.
Summary: Enjoying the addition of African folk dance to their dance curriculum, best friends Julie, Lucy and Alia are enthralled by the form's challenging style until problems at home and in the classroom place their dance pursuits at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEKMiles, Tiya
Summary: "An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MILBéka.
Summary: Julie, Lucie, and Alia, along with Julie's little sister, Capucine, take classes at a local dance studio, where they study ballet, modern dance, and even hip-hop, compete with the arrogant Carla, and swoon over KT, the hip-hop teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
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Summary: Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MilesBéka
Summary: Julie, Lucie, and Alia visit their friend Prune in London, and audition for the leading roles in a musical against their arch-nemesis, Carla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
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Summary: Dancers Julie, Lucy, and Alia are delighted to begin working on a production of The Nutcracker in Russia, where a jealous Carla attempts to ruin the show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BEKFrymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead books 1995