Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah
Summary: Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOBigelow, Lisa Jenn
Summary: Hazel knows a lot about the world but feels insecure dealing with the changes in her life as she enters eighth grade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIGThompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah
Summary: "Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Thompkins-Bigelow 2020Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOGrossman, Vasily
Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROShamsie, Kamila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHARowser, Jamila
Summary: "A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROWShamsie, Kamila
Summary: July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atavist Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHABigelow, Lisa Jenn
Summary: Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in this big-hearted middle grade novel. Not to be missed by fans of Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Tim Federle's Better Nate Than Ever ! Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It's the only time she doesn't feel like a mouse. Now she and Olivia are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BIGThompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah
Summary: A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE THOThompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah
Summary: "When Muhammad gets a special salat rug on his seventh birthday, he is determined to do all five daily prayers on time. But one salat occurs during the school day--and he's worried about being seen praying at school. His father parks his truck to worship in public places, and people stare at him and mock him. Will the same thing happen to Muhammad? From two powerhouse creators comes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOBigdelou, Ghazāleh
Summary: When three curious friends wonder whether the moon will ever come to stay with us, they find no answer until one special night, all is revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIGAhmed, Jamila
Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AHMBernard, Romily.
Summary: "Teen hacker Wick Tate has to decide between right and wrong as she tries to solve another murder and discover the truth about her mother's suicide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERBernard, Romily.
Summary: Trust Me is the conclusion to the Find Me trilogy, in which loose ends come together and chilling plot twists complicate Wick Tate's life more than ever. Wick is used to relying on only herself, but when she has nowhere left to turn, she's going to have to learn to trust someone if she's going to finally escape her demons. . . .
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERHambly, Barbara.
Summary: In 1835 New Orleans, Benjamin January, a free man of color, becomes caught up in a deadly plot when he rescues opera impresario Lorenzo Belaggio, who has brought a production of the opera "Othello" to town, from a violent attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHambly, Barbara.
Summary: When the Black Dragon seizes the Deep of Ylferdun, John Aversin, the only living man ever to slay a dragon agrees to challenge the dragon, accompanied by Jenny Waynest, a half-taught sorceress and the mother of his sons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIBernard, Romily.
Summary: When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERVictoire, Camila
Summary: "At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VICDaily, Lisa
Summary: "Alex has planned and executed her life with laser focus since she first met her future husband at the play-doh table on the first day of kindergarten. They have a terrific life, a gorgeous house on the bay, and fantastic careers they love. There's only one problem: Alex's husband Michael is gay, a fact he neglected to mention in the 23 years since they first met. Now, Alex's perfectly planned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIGaige, Amity
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIShamsie, Kamila
Summary: "From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017