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Contents: Green nature -- Crystal ball -- Edge of time -- In the wild -- Blank paper -- Happy tarot -- Cruel moon -- Galaxy -- Killer instinct - Find the light -- Purple reflections.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Inspired by a mantra written for her third-graders, Jasmyn Wright's uplifting call to "push through" is an invitation to young readers to announce their own power and to recognize and reaffirm that of others, regardless of setbacks. By diminishing doubt,encouraging community, and reaffirming that we're all here to make a difference, her empowering words show children how to lift themselves up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Star Music 1930
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWard, Jesmyn
Summary: "For Tulane University's 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. Speaking about the challenges she and her family overcame, Ward inspired everyone in the audience with her meditation on tenacity in the face of hardship. Ward's moving words will inspire listeners as they prepare for the next...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARD, JESMYN WARDarznik, Jasmin
Summary: "A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARSimon, Jazmyn
Summary: "In this beautifully illustrated book of affirmations, young readers will learn about self-love and being their truest self, regardless of outside voices and doubt, as they repeat the encouraging words on each page"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIMWard, Jesmyn
Summary: What's inside: Travel tips about seafood shacks, secret beaches, scenic rives and fishing destinations; Interviews with oyster farmers, historians and mermaid performers; Stories about hot sauce, hurricanes, islands and Old Florida.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.6 GULF COAST WARWard, Jesmyn
Summary: "Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WARWard, Jesmyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ward 2011Ward, Jesmyn.
Summary: Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARD, JESMYN WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WARD WARWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: "Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden Books/Agate 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARDarznik, Jasmin
Summary: "A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers--exploring Dorothea Lange's wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. In 1918 Dorothea leaves the East Coast for California, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking woman with a complicated past, gives her entrée...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DARKaur, Jasmin
Summary: Kiran flees her home in Punjab for a fresh start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant with a daughter, Sahaara, but when Sahaara learns the truth about Kiran's past, she feels compelled to seek justice, even if it means challenging a powerful and dangerous man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAUFasman, Jon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASBasman, Michael.
Summary: Readers can learn all the rules of chess with annotated photsequences and advice on the game from a top game expert.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK. 2006
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Summary: "An investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology, asking the question: what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety? Jon Fasmanlooks at how these technologies help police do their jobs, and what their use means for our privacy rights and civil liberties"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.44 FASJermyn, Leslie
Summary: "A book for middle and high school students about the history and culture of Paraguay."--Provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.2 JERWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWard, Jesmyn
Summary: A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ward 2017Ward, Jesmyn.
Summary: Recounts the loss of five young men in the author's life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the misfortune that can follow those who live in poverty, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WARD, JESYMN WARGordon, Jaimy
Summary: In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GORWaby, Tasmin
Summary: "Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Great Britain's Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features 36 amazing drives, from 3-day escapes to 3-week adventures. Explore the majestic Welsh mountains, gaze at the mysterious Stonehenge and cruise grand Scottish moors. Get to Great Britain, rent a car, and hit the road!"--Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023