Brown, Waka T.
Summary: "In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROSummary: The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REABrock, Amber
Summary: Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHorn, Dara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORLane, Byron
Summary: "A hilariously heartfelt novel about living life at full force, and discovering family when you least expect it, influenced in part by the author's time as Carrie Fisher's beloved assistant. Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANCasale, Jana
Summary: A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky work becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Bowen, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWBowen, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2002