Perkins, Kendrick
Summary: "The Education of Kendrick Perkins is an intimate memoir about race, fatherhood, and basketball, from former NBA player and outspoken cultural critic, Kendrick "Perk" Perkins. At age eighteen, Kendrick Perkins left his grandparents' run-down yellow house in Beaumont, Texas for the last time. Sure, he'd traveled the country for camps and tournaments. He'd banged and bruised with the biggest and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, KENDRICK PERSeth
Contents: "The story presented here was originally serialized in issues ten through fifteen of the comic book series, Palookaville."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SETRoloff, Amy.
Summary: God doesn't make mistakes." For Amy Roloff, star of TLC's hit reality show Little People, Big World, her father's words would repeatedly serve as an anchor, reminding her of her inherent worth and purpose, whenever feelings of insecurity and inadequacy surfaced and threatened to overwhelm her. In A Little Me, Amy shares what it was like growing up with achondroplasia dwarfism, how she struggled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indigo River Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROLOFF, AMY ROLRoloff, Jeremy
Summary: More than 2.3 million people watched as Jeremy and Audrey Roloff shared their vows and committed their lives to each other. Now, the former co-stars of TLC's show Little People, Big World share their imperfect, resilient, and inspiring love story. The journey to their wedding day was the culmination of a bumpy and complicated dating relationship. From health problems, to emotional walls, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241 ROLRosoff, Meg.
Summary: Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life - or possibly to destroy it altogether. It's difficult to be certain as they only speak dog. Poor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSRosoff, Meg
Summary: "New York City. Summer 1983. A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted. But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin. Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture. Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSRosoff, Meg.
Summary: To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSOpeth
Contents: Coil -- Heir apparent -- Lotus eater -- Burden -- Porcelain heart -- Hessian peel -- Hex omega
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OPESaeta.
Contents: Can you forgive -- Grand Canyon -- You fade -- Anywhere but here -- Tonight, I'll have to dream you here -- Not for today -- Alright -- Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me -- Everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fish the Cat Productions 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SaetaSeal
Contents: Bring it on -- Prayer for the dying -- Dreaming in metaphors -- Don't cry -- Fast changes -- Kiss from a rose -- People asking why -- Newborn friend -- If I could -- I'm alive -- Bring it on (reprise).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sire 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SEASeny
Summary: "The Initiation Exam throws an unexpected curveball at young Saigami candidates, including Ayumi, who has arrived in this strange fantasy world under mysterious circumstances. While these young, powerful teenagers have no way of knowing, the contest strings are being pulled from the shadows, putting their future careers--and their lives--in jeopardy. Ayumi and the others will have to act fast,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SAISeba
Contents: Ben Ali (4:12) -- Chouft (3:52) -- TGe dGekoum -- Zina zina (3:34) -- Nomades (4:31) -- MGsirda (3:57) -- Bladna (3:39) -- Kayen dGe (3:43) -- RaFi raFi (3:51) -- Loukane (5:33) -- Yamina (4:27) -- Salam (4:21)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST SEBSethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETSheth, Kashmira
Summary: Nina Soni is a lovable, distractible Indian American girl with big plans and cast of family and friends to help her make her realize her dreams, or resolve the chaos that often results. A long rainy stretch during spring break has Nina restless and hungry for a new project and aggravated with little sister Kavita's embarrassing behavior. Then, a fresh pile of dirt is delivered to the neighbor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SHESeah, Audrey
Summary: "The history of Vietnam is complicated and filled with conflict, and that history has impacted the nation's culture in major ways. Readers explore the relationship between Vietnam's history, geography, and culture in this thoroughly updated look at the Southeast Asian nation. With chapters highlighting economics, arts, religion, language, and the lifestyles of the Vietnamese people, readers are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 SEASete, Bola
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2021
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SETStern, Seth (Seth Ross)
Summary: This book is a sweeping and revealing insider look at court history and the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and public access to information, and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRENNAN, WILLIAM J STESeto, Loretta
Summary: A little girl celebrates the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents, who tell her three legends about the moon while they eat mooncakes and drink tea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018
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Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETSete, Bola.
Contents: The sun pours throuogh the darkness gently, gently (5:51) -- Moonbeams, moonlight, midnight magic (9:07) -- Morning rises through the mist (3:13) -- Night shadows (4:58) -- Sorcerers, spirits, devas, and delights (4:21) -- Shambhala moon (6:09) -- Many shades of green (4:17) -- DEvas' lament (3:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Samba Moon Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SETSeto, Matt
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SETSheth, Kashmira.
Summary: Two young sisters raised in America learn about the beauty and art of wearing a sari from their wise Indian grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHESheth, Kashmira.
Summary: Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2013