Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
Summary: "In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta-her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
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Summary: 'First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Transit Books 2017
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Summary: Set just before and during WWII, told from the viewpoint of an imaginative adolescent boy whose magical view of life tempers the tragic events that befall his hometown, occupied in turn by various armies. How the boy's family and neighbors negotiate these traumatic events is recounted with beauty and simplicity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADUrdahl, Catherine.
Summary: On the first day of kindergarten, Polka-dot uses the fix-it kit her grandpa has prepared for her to help her make a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2011
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Summary: A child has a very difficult time getting Fred, the dog, to bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A lively kitten is full of joy until she takes a tumble. Can a little comfort from someone special help her feel happy again?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2006
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Summary: "At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy... Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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Summary: A tale blending history and folklore traces the occupation of the ancient Albanian stone city of Gjirokastër by Nazi forces in 1943 and the bizarre hospitality shown by a doctor to the Nazi colonel during a fateful dinner party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADKeats, Israel
Summary: Teens Leo, James, and Sigrid are forced to use their instincts to locate their families after an alien invasion disables most electronics and their entire town is evacuated without them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEAFink, Jennifer Natalya
Summary: "On the night of December 2, as 1984 drew to its Reaganomic close, an explosion at an American-owned factory in Bhopal, India, released untold amounts of toxic gas on uncounted numbers of people, creating a human and environmental disaster of insurmountable proportions. Known as the Bhopal disaster, it once dominated international headlines, and is now barely remembered. Yet Bhopal remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FC2 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINIsrael, Laurie
Summary: Sofia loves the holiday season of Wassailia, but this year, she gets to celebrate Christmas for the first time ever! She can't wait to visit her good friend, Vivian, see a foreign kingdom, and experience all of the wonderful traditions of Christmas. But during her visit, two friendly sprites ask Sofia to help them find their lost friend. Can Sofia help?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2015
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Summary: "When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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Summary: Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn’t enjoy the news; he doesn’t like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants the world to leave him alone. Morris does not make waves. But one day Morris is seduced by a lonely, lovesick receptionist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Israel 2015Israel, Laurie
Summary: "Nancy is one happy camper when she decides to have a camping trip in the backyard. But when it begins to rain, Nancy will need to bring all the wonders of the great outdoors...indoors!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: While two monsters argue over how the story they are telling should go, Dennis, a very hungry dragon, is listening nearby--and he has very definite ideas about how this story should end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STADahl, Michael
Summary: There are plenty of chills in this compilation of four separately published books of scary stories: The stranger on the stairs, The doll that waved goodbye, The voice in the boys' room, and The phantom on the phone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016