Lapite, Shade
Summary: In this thrilling Afro-fantasy, the first set in the lush, opulent kingdom of Galla, a girl raised in secret must leave her sheltered rural home for the subtle dangers of the royal court, where she becomes caught up in deadly power struggles and romantic intrigue. Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the forested East after her parents were outed as enemies of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAPSummary: It reimagines one of the most popular fan-favorite shows of all time in this all-new, comedic, action-packed series. Five unsuspecting teenagers, transported from Earth into the middle of a sprawling intergalactic war, become pilots for five robotic lions in the battle to protect the universe from evil. Only through the true power of teamwork can they unite to form the mighty warrior, who was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VOLSummary: Jake Doyle is a new breed of private investigator, cracking cases in contemporary St. John's, N.L. His hometown is changing in a big way, transforming from a small seaport to a booming oil town. Along with his father/partner-in-crime-solving, Malachy Doyle, the two are ready to take on whatever mystery turns up on their doorstep.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBC Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REPSchade, Susan.
Summary: Cat dreams of being on the gymnastics team and spends all summer learning to tumble and flip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN SCHPaull, Laline.
Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Wilson, Lakita
Summary: "Leila is crushed when Dev, her boyfriend of four years, breaks up with her right before graduation. Just when she's thinking she wasted her entire high school experience on a dead-end relationship, her best friend Bree reminds her that Last Chance Dance is just around the corner. A high school tradition, the Last Chance Dance gives all the students one last opportunity to find love before they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILCapote, Truman.
Summary: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Tademy, Lalita.
Summary: "The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TADTademy, Lalita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TADTademy, Lalita.
Summary: The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick--the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's ancestral past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2001
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Summary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHAPaull, Laline
Summary: "A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts"-- publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUNyong'o, Lupita
Summary: When an African American family decides to spend the summer in a small beach town, they discover that they are being stalked by evil doppelgängers of themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE USCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD USTademy, Lalita
Summary: Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TADTademy, Lalita.
Summary: Follows four generations of African American women, from slavery to the early twentieth century, as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TADJordan, Shane
Summary: During a stormy pride parade, a young child and thier supportive father meet and help a non-binary child feel comfortable in their own skin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "John Lago is an intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan. He clocks eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all of the shit work no one else wants to do . . . and he doesn't make a dime. But John isn't trying to claw his way to the top of the corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm's high profile, heavily guarded partners. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUHGeetanjali Shree
Summary: "WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEECall number: FIC GIT
Shrake, Edwin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John M. Hardy Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRFlenniken, Shary
Summary: "In the 1970s and 1980s, National Lampoon was home to not only some of the funniest humor writing in America, but also many of its best cartoons. The best of them was Trots and Bonnie by Shary Flenniken, a comic strip that followed the adventures and mishaps of the guileless teenager Bonnie and her wisecracking dog, Trots. Bonnie stumbles through the mysteries of adulthood, as Flenniken-one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FLEShang, Wendy
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHATidhar, Lavie
Summary: 1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future...The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC TIDRāwī, Shahd
Summary: "Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAWShafer, David
Summary: The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014