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Summary: Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC How

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Summary: From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017

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Summary: A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press 2012

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCI

Summary: A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLA

Matias, Carlos

Summary: Author Carlos Matias and Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator Gracey Zhang deliver a stunning picture book based on a finalist in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary "Best of the Year," about a young boy in the city who tries his best to avoid spending his precious quarters on tempting local treats in case of an "emergency." A poignant, cheeky tale perfect for fans of Matt de La Peña,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAT

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Summary: From Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and co-author of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story, which explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics, about a girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group. The ideal next read for fans of Roxane Gay, Jacqueline Woodson, and Elizabeth Acevedo. Warrior Princess. Thats what...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC ZOB

Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VAL

Bayard, Louis

Summary: "A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

Madson, Justin

Summary: "In Justin Madson's debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed--she doesn't even want to help him...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MAD

Paul, Gill

Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAU

Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VAL

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Summary: "Journey to Oz, a faraway land of magic, mayhem, and danger in this fantastical trilogy by L. Frank Baum. The Library Congress calls this "Americas greatest and best-beloved homegrown fairytale," and the stories will spark the imagination and wonder as you enter the wondrous Land of Oz."--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRE

Baum, L. Frank, (Lyman Frank)

Summary: Presents an illustrated adaptation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in which after a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Starry Forest Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAU

Paige, D. M.

Summary: Follow Dorothy's iconic companions from the beloved classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as each of their gifts becomes key to the downfall of Oz.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PAI

Punter, Russell

Summary: After Dorothy's house is carried off by a tornado, she finds herself in the strange and magical Land of Oz. With the help of her new friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, she must persuade the Wizard of Oz to help her get back to Kansas. L. Frank Baum's timeless fantasy is beautifully recreated in this enchanting graphic novel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PUN

Tallman, Shirley.

Summary: Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAL

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023

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Konrath, J.A.

Summary: Hoping for a break in light of her fianc?e's recuperation from botulism poisoning and a deadly criminal's suicide, Chicago Police Department lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels finds her life thrown back into turmoil by the activities of a band of murderous vigilantes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KON

Summary: The incredible true story of two sisters joined by music and torn apart by love for the same man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIL

Summary: Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kennedys Production (Ontario), inc. 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KEN

Portman, Natalie

Summary: Follows Jacqueline Kennedy while she was the First Lady of the United States, and following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JAC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAC RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jackie 2017

Preston, Caroline.

Summary: Josie, a literature student, is offered a well-paid job researching the life of Jackie Onassis for a writer working on an intimate biography. She takes the assignment and discovers that Jackie's stormy marriage to President Kennedy strangely resembled her own. A first novel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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