Ford, Ronald Martin
Summary: "A transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Dodd, Christina
Summary: Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory caused by a gunshot wound to the head. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DODSummary: A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIGSummary: Fourteen-year-old Alan Silverman, a skinny, rebellious kid who would rather play stickball than become a good Samaritan, tries to hide his friendship with Naomi, a young refugee traumatized by the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Feature Films for Families 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family AlanSummary: When Roger, a delinquent boy, is sent to live with his grandfather for the summer, he discovers his grandfather is secretly protecting a friendly, turtle-like creature named Mel. Because of Roger's reckless behavior, his grandfather is put in jail, and a greedy land developer captures Mel. To free his grandfather and save Mel, Roger has to take responsibility for his actions and find the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MELCord, Barry
Summary: "Ben Sladeen had come to Two Mile and taken a job as ramrod of the Barbed Wire spread with the intention of starting a new life. He wanted nothing to remind him of the old days in New Orleans, when he had been carefree and in love until the King brothers and Curly Temper had shattered the idyll and forced him to leave town. Now, Temper has bought a ranch adjoining the Barbed Wire and sets out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cord 2021Blakeslee, Vanessa
Summary: "Growing up as the only daughter of a wealthy landowner in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, teenaged Mercedes Martinez knows a world of maids, armed guards, and private drivers. When she falls in love with Manuel, a fiery young activist with a passion for his faith and his country, she begins to understand the suffering of the desplazados who share her land. A startling discovery about her father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLADiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIFDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: "When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoeder, Vanessa
Summary: Using a cardboard box as his home when he is born without a shell, Terrance the turtle enjoys the uniqueness and versatility of his home until another turtle’s insensitive remarks make him question his differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROEGray, Anissa
Summary: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gray 2019Gray, Anissa
Summary: "A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAForde, Patricia
Summary: Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Marufu, Aneesa
Summary: Escaping from an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Khadija finds an unlikely ally in a poor young glassmaker's apprentice, and as a deadly revolution exploits forbidden magic, threatening their friendship, they must choose what kind of world they want to live in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIFHua, Vanessa
Summary: "In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUALafaye, Vanessa.
Summary: Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become--unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAFMarshall, Vanessa
Summary: The crew of the starship Ghost battle against the evil Empire to try and bring peace back to the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STARedgrave, Vanessa
Summary: After his wife has given up on him and left him for his former best friend, a failed artist descends into madness and tries to win her back by performing various bizarre escapades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020