Otsuka, Julie
Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie.
Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Otsuka, Julie
Summary: Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSOtsuka, Julie
Summary: This is a a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides' extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OTSTran, Trang Thanh
Summary: When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TRASummary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Girl 2004Summary: Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCrace, Jim.
Summary: In a futuristic American wasteland, an injured Franklin Lopez joins forces with Margaret, a woman suffering from a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse, as the two discover that their dreams of a safe future mean following an unexpected path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2007
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Summary: In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper's daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHEHuahn, Traci
Summary: Based on the life of Chinese American student Mamie Tape and her fight to attend the all-white Spring Valley Primary School in her San Francisco neighborhood including her family's successful 1885 lawsuit before the California Supreme Court, one step in the long journey towards equality in education. Includes author's note with biographical and historical information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUASorell, Traci
Summary: On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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Summary: "Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHEDePree, Traci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORKim, Graci
Contents: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- Why is orange chicken so delicious? -- Vegas wasn't built in a day -- Who doesn't like a garden wedding? -- Museums are so hot right now -- Blue eggs and ham(strings) -- Even Princess Jasmine needed her space -- Is a two-star hotel really just a motel? -- Meetings should always happen on ferris wheels -- Who knew there were so many M&M falvors! -- Ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIMNguyen, Trang
Summary: "A young conservationist overcomes the odds to return a sun bear to its natural habitat"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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Summary: The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay! A hopeful story of facing the challenges of life with courage and learning to see with eyes of grace, "Dandelions in a Jelly Jar" gently reminds you that the best bouquets are dandelions. -Goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEPKim, Graci
Summary: Riley Oh ventures into the Spiritrealm, where she hopes to convince Saint Heo Jun to become the new patron god of the Gom clan and restore their healing powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIMChevalier, Tracy
Summary: Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017