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Summary: "Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...
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Publisher / Publication Date: & Other Stories 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerrera, Yuri
Summary: Makina, a young girl living in the Mexican-American border region and searching for her missing brother, faces nine legendary quests in a dangerous world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Periférica 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC HERHerrera, Yuri
Summary: "A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERIwahara, Yuji
Summary: True to his warning, Loser -- the infamous phantom thief -- makes an explosive entrance at the art museum to steal the Angels of Black and White Wings statue! "Collector" Kyouma Mabuchi, now teamed up with the android Mira to recover illegal Coils, faces off with the masked thief in the midst of the museum's heavy security. But it just so happens that Loser recognizes Kyouma -- and what's more,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMSuri, Tasha
Summary: "The prophecy of the nameless god-the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa-has proven a blessing and curse. She is determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with the strength of the rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side, deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight. The power of the deathless waters flows through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURIwahara, Yuji
Summary: "Five years ago, a fateful encounter brought together two kindred spirits--a duo later known as the Phantom Thief Loser and his daughter. Now, Ellie is stepping out on her own to continue her adopted father's legacy. But while she's willing to do what it takes to learn Mira's and Kyouma's secrets, the danger that awaits is far greater than Ellie realizes! Can Kyouma, Mira, and Ellie survive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMIwahara, Yuji
Summary: 2072 AD. With the invention of cross-dimensional electromagnetic inductors known as "coils," the world's energy crisis has long been solved. Kyouma Mabuchi is a "Collector" who makes his living by recovering illegal coils for the powers that be. When his latest gig brings him upon a mysterious girl named Mira, little does he know that their meeting will bring them both closer to the secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMMorales, Yuyi
Summary: "A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books, Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH MORSuri, Manil.
Summary: In a novel that incorporates elements of Hindu mythology, an apartment building becomes a metaphor for the divisions and cultural clashes of modern India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURSuri, Tasha
Summary: "A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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Summary: Marrying in order to escape an overbearing father, Meera is further victimized by her physically demanding husband and lustful brother-in-law, a circumstance from which she finds fleeting escape through her relationships with her sister-in-law and young son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURSuri, Tasha
Summary: "Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much more than allies--on a dark journey to save their empire. Imprisoned by her tyrannical brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURShulevitz, Uri
Summary: As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott ShulevitzYumi, Kiiro.
Summary: In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces! The Media Betterment Committee has silenced a famous writer, and Library Forces member Iku Kasahara and her supervisor and secret crush,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBTamura, Yumi.
Summary: Rescue workers Rei and Uozumi were looking for earthquake survivors when they uncovered man-made violence. Then their squad was attacked and murdered. Some secret lurks in those ruins. To find it, Rei and Uozumi join a privately funded hostage rescue organization run out of a Tokyo bar called Chicago. They help people while they look for their own salvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIUnita, Yumi
Summary: "As an impromptu dad to Rin, his late grandfather's illegitimate child, Daikichi Kawachi has experienced his share of firsts while caring for his little aunt (?). Now it's Daikichi's turn to battle the initial wave of separation anxiety as Rin leaves the nest-- for her first day of elementary school! Rin's elementary school isn't the only place with new faces, either. Daikichi's office is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNShulevitz, Uri
Summary: A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1978
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHUSummary: "Xavier is a strait-laced French college senior who moves to Barcelona as part of a student exchange program, much to the dismay of his beautiful girlfriend. But sharing cramped quarters with students from all over Europe quickly leads to multi-cultural chaos as Xavier gets an eye-opening lesson on how to live, love, laugh-- and party!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN L'AUOrlev, Uri
Summary: Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORLShulevitz, Uri
Summary: As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Shulevitz 2008Iwahara, Yuji
Summary: "The Judgment Day once predicted by Dr. Shidou Yurizaki is nigh, and the Syndicate will not suffer interference. Faced with a rash of murdered Collectors and a secret that would shake the world if revealed, New Tesla turns to Kyouma and Mira for help. Yet, with few options at his disposal, what can Kyouma do to prevent this catastrophe? The secrets behind Mira's dual-ring Coil might be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DIMShulevitz, Uri
Summary: In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION ShulevitzShulevitz, Uri
Summary: Troto is a happy little car who likes to go places until he drives all the way to Cactusville and meets some big trucks that tease him for being so small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHUUnita, Yumi
Summary: "As Daikichi continues to juggle work with raising a teenager, Rin struggles with the relationship between her and Kouki, her childhood friend. The last ten years have brought about a variety of changes to their friendship-- some subtle, some not so. Kouki may always have been head over heels for Rin, but the choices he's made in the past seem to have put a wedge between them. And when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012