Aliu, Akim

Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALI

Kix, Paul

Summary: "A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, ROBERT DE KIX

Kix, Paul

Summary: "A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, ROBERT DE KIX,

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940 KIX

Kix, Paul

Summary: It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1 KIX

Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim

Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJO

Lane, Kit.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Commercial Record 1975

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377414 Lane

Yang, Kelly

Summary: "A lyrical nonfiction picture book featuring eighteen Asian American changemakers and two pivotal moments in Asian American history, illustrated by fifteen renowned Asian and Asian American artists"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 YAN

Grant, Kimi Cunningham.

Summary: Relates how the author rejected her Japanese heritage until learning the details of her grandmother's time in a Japanese internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5317 GRANT, KIMI CUNNINGHAM GRA

Campbell, Kim

Summary: The wife of the late country pop star shares a no-holds-barred account of their more than three-decade marriage to include coverage of their parenting experiences, the author's role in helping Campbell overcome addiction, and his wrenching battle with Alzheimer's disease.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CAM

Kim, Carol

Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANN

Kim, Elizabeth.

Summary: A Korean War orphan retraces her steps from the Korean countryside, where her mother was murdered for sleeping with an American GI, to the United States, where she found both hardship and salvation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM, ELIZABETH KIM

Kim, Eunsun

Summary: "Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country--despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated ... Her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM, EUNSUN KIM

Crawford, Kim

Contents: Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802 -- The Saginaw Trail -- Trouble in Detroit -- War Clouds -- War in the Michigan Territory -- The Arrest of Jacob Smith -- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith -- Abduction to Saginaw -- The Return of the Boyer Children -- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815 -- Peace -- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay -- The Treaty...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.403 SMITH, JACOB CRA

Ghattas, Kim.

Summary: Drawing on interviews with Clinton, administration officials, and other Washington insiders, a foreign correspondent presents the story of Hillary Clinton as America's envoy to the world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM GHA

Reed, Kim

Summary: "For years, Kim's day job was a social worker to the home-bound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. Then she'd scramble into Manhattan to make her hostess shifts at Babbo, where even the Pope would have trouble scoring a reservation, and Gwyneth Paltrow and RyanReynolds squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. Despite her sometimes fifteen-hour days, Kim couldn't make ends meet, up...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REED, KIM REE

Chaffee, Kim

Summary: "Kathrine Switzer changed the world of running. This narrative biography follows Kathrine from running laps as a girl in her backyard to becoming the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with official race numbers in 1967. Her inspirational true story is for anyone willing to challenge the rules. The compelling collage art adds to the kinetic action of the story. With tension and heart, this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SWI

Dinan, Kim

Summary: "Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their lives and travel around the world. Just before their departure, they're given an unexpected gift that will shape their adventures: a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away to those they encounter on their journey....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DINAN, KIM DIN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel Dinan

Gordon, Kim

Summary: A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence and as one of the first women of rock and roll.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORDON, KIM GOR

Kim Phúc

Summary: "Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM PHUC KIM

Kim, Suki

Summary: A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM, SUKI KIM

MacQuarrie, Kim.

Summary: "Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MAC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MAC

Rogers, Kim

Summary: "A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve in the United States Air Force in World War II"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIN