Williams, Nyasha
Summary: Nyasha Williams's latest picture book is a moving and powerful invitation to BIPOC children to fully explore their dreams for the future. Dreams provide purpose and meaning--they are ideas born of love. They take time to sprout and can sometimes be clouded by the doubts of others, BUT with patience and discipline, we can rely on our visions for a better world by following our dreams....
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILSummary: Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEADeaon, Natashia
Summary: "Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in bya caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEOLawler, Janet
Summary: Honk, hnokkk! Hooo, hoooot! What's the ruckus? What's that sound? Walrus calls and songs astound. Walruses are fascinating animals. Watch them dive from ice floes to seafloor, feast on clams, sneak up on a puffin, and make lots of noise in their artic home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LAWAndriamirado, Natacha
Summary: Worried that his reptilian ferocity will scare his friends, Fossil the crocodile prefers peace and quiet and being alone, but his friends insist that Fossil play with them anyway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDSummary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VARBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURLawler, Janet
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text imagine how mothers in the ocean show love to their little ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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Summary: "A novel about a down-on-his-luck short-story writer who becomes embroiled in an elaborate confidence game designed to scam the publishing world"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LANHawker, Libbie
Summary: "Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hawker 2019Lasser, Scott.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASLasser, Scott.
Summary: On September 10, 2001, Kyle tells his sister, Cat, that he believes he has fathered a son. The next day both Kyle and the boy's mother head off to work and are never heard from again. Cat--a single mother of a young son--sets out to find her brother's orphaned child. Nearly a year later, that search is ongoing when her father, Sam, asks Cat to come to California for the anniversary of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC LASChikowore, Nyasha
Summary: Clumsy Gary the Giraffe is disappointed that he still cannot reach the top leaves on trees after turning six, but his friends assure him he is not too old to ask for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, American Psychological Association 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CHILasser, Jon
Summary: "Young Kiko, aided by her teenaged sister, Annie, and her dog, Chico, grows kind as they harvest fruits, flowers, and vegetables from their garden and share them with others. Includes note for parents and caregivers." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LASLawlor, Laurie.
Summary: Living on the nineteenth-century Indiana frontier with his parents and irritable older sister Louise, six-year-old Beansie dreads his first day of school, but his resilience surprises even his sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2004
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC LAWSpillett, Tasha
Summary: "Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SPILasser, Scott.
Summary: After losing his son and divorcing his wife, a Detroit native returns home after twenty-five years and becomes involved with the sister of his murdered high school girlfriend as he tries to put back the pieces of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASVawter, Vince.
Summary: When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VAWBrown, Natasha
Summary: "The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARLester, Natasha
Summary: New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LESMostert, Natasha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSNgan, Natasha
Summary: "In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NGAPreston, Natasha
Summary: When a high school prank turns deadly, Marley and her friends must do everything they can to conceal the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024