Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Gomi, Tarō
Summary: In simple text this book follows the daily activities of a young boy who is always the first in every activity--waking up, eating breakfast, playing, and getting ready for bed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOMMatharu, Taran
Summary: When Fletcher, a blacksmith's apprentice, learns he can summon demons, he travels with his demon to an academy for adepts where he is to train as a Battlemage in the Empire's war against the orcs, but he discovers that all is not as it seems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2015
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Summary: A tender story of a neglected outsider and the power he gains from being accepted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YASZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he'd landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ZGHYashima, Tarō
Summary: Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her third birthday.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1972
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YASGomi, Tarō
Summary: Yumi and her grandmother really want to see each other, but when they both set out from their homes at the same time they keep missing each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMMatharu, Taran
Summary: "Cade has managed to survive the duel with the Hydra Alpha, barely. But the Games are far from over. By order of their cruel and mysterious overlord, Abaddon, Cade and his friends are sent off to war against the Greys, a humanoid race who have far surpassed humans in technology on their home planet. This attempt to move up the leaderboard, however, leads Cade to a game-changing revelation: The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishiing Group, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MATSchotter, Richard.
Summary: King Cole, Queen Meg, Jack, Tess, Giant Blunderbore, and Sir George battle a ferocious dragon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Schotter 1994Zgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHMatharu, Taran
Summary: Cade Carter and his friends have survived the qualifying round of the mysterious overlords' twisted games, decimated by the loss of so many of their comrades during the fight. But they have no time to mourn, for the next round of trials is about to begin. When the group discovers that their next foe will be even more ferocious than the last, Cade leads them on a quest out into their strange new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2020
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ADAVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARMitsuboshi, Tama
Summary: "Deep within the forest resides a curious pair--Mira, a girl with an affliction that calls forth the night, and Rei, a kindly doctor searching for the cure. Their days pass peacefully, until an old acquaintance of Rei's appears..."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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Summary: "Anxious about taking a single step off the property, Mira is crestfallen to learn that her favorite author will be signing books nearby. Can a goat-in-fluffy-costume escort help make her dream come true?!"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 CALTaira, Kenji
Summary: Uchiha Sasuke, the brooding loner who will do anything to avenge his clan and kill his older brother... Yes, this is his story, but with a hilarious twist! In Naruto: Chibi Sasuke's Sharingan Legend, the characters and story have been flipped on their heads, all for the sake of comedy! With his Taka teammates Suigetsu, Karin and Jugo, Sasuke travels the land and gets into all kinds of wacky...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media LLC 2017
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Summary: Little Green is a proud and strong pickup truck who loves helping with chores, but when Farmer Gray buys a big new blue truck, Little Green is left to rust in a pasture until the farmer's daughter, Fern, suggests they fix him up and use him for such gentle jobs as going to the farmers' market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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Gomi, Tar
Summary: When busy Santa selects the presents by peering through the windows of each house and guessing what animal lives there, the results are often unexpected. Features die-cut illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMGomi, Tarō.
Summary: Colorful illustrations camouflage common objects and the reader is invited to solve the picture puzzle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE GOMSchotter, Roni.
Summary: Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2006