Galchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALLehrer, Riva
Summary: "What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? In 1958, Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to "fix" her, sending the messageover and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEHERER LEHGallen, Michelle
Summary: "Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALGallen, Michelle
Summary: Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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Summary: Get to know the incredible iPad in a uniquely different Dummies format! The iPad combines the best of your favorite gadgets into one amazing ultraportable touch device. And, thisone-of-a-kind For Dummies guide is your is your ticket for making the most out of your iPad or iPad 2. Thoroughly updated for the third-generation iPad, the new edition of this informative, full-color guide is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2012
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Hostašová, Radka
Summary: No Kiln? No Problem! Learn to make beautifully textured home décor accents with inexpensive air-dry clay! The process is easy, and the results are surprisingly stylish when you follow the tips, advice, and instruction from author and clay artist-designer Radka Hostasova. Aimed at absolute beginners-this book starts with an overview of the tools and materials needed to produce the best results....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stash Books, an imprint of C&T Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 738 HOSKriska, Laura.
Summary: A young woman with a new degree in Japanese studies and plenty of youthful idealism and can-do spirit accepts a job as the first American trainee at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. Her image of Japanese corporate life is dramatically challenged on her first day at work when she is issued a blue polyester uniform—a uniform worn only by women! From menial beginnings serving tea to executives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2011
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Ricca, Brad
Summary: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation’s greatest crimefighters during an era when women weren’t involved with murder investigations. After agreeing to take the sensational Cruger case, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 HUMGaughen, A. C.
Summary: Posing as one of Robin Hood's thieves to avoid the evil Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her identity secret from all of Nottinghamshire. Only Big John and Robin Hood know the truth-that the agile thief posing as a whip of a boy is actually a fearless young woman with a secret past. It's getting harder to hide as Gisbourne's camp seeks to find Scarlet and drive Robin Hood out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Childrens 2012
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Kent, Minka
Summary: "Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return. As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENBlackburne, Livia
Summary: When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she is destined to live her last days in isolation. Dineas, broken by torture at the hands of the Amparan Empire, thirsts for revenge against his captors; he'll do anything to free his tribe from Amparan rule-- even if it means undertaking a plan that risks not only his life but his very self. The two are thrust together on a high-stakes mission...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLASrinivasan, Divya.
Summary: Little Owl enjoys a lovely night in the forest visiting his friend the raccoon, listening to the frogs croak and the crickets chirp, and watching the fog that hovers overhead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Childrens books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SRI BOARD BOOKZijl, Annejet van der
Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJSingh, Rina
Summary: The true story of a boy who grew up to bring extraordinary change to his village with regards to sex discrimination
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 305.4209 SINRivera, Jenni.
Contents: Intro/Jenni Rivera/1969-Siempre En Vivo Desde Monterrey Parte 1 (0:41) -- Dos Botellas De Mezcal (En Vivo Desde Monterrey/2012) (3:00) -- Popurri 1969-Siempre (En Vivo Desde Monterrey/2012) (00:11:31) -- Interlude/Jenni Rivera/1969-Siempre En Vivo Desde Monterrey Parte 1 (0:28) -- Amiga Si Lo Ves (En Vivo Desde Monterrey/2012) (4:22) -- Que Ganas De No Verte Nunca Mas (En Vivo Desde...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fonovisa 2013
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Rucka, Greg
Summary: Reveals the origins of a doubtful stormtrooper for the First Order called FN-2187, a young scavenger on the desert planet of Jakku who calls herself Rey, and a hotshot Republic pilot named Poe Dameron, before they become involved in the major conflicts disrupting the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Lucasfilm Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STABrzezinski, Mika
Summary: A practical career guidebook that no only helps you get your foot in the door but also show you how to negotiate a raise, advocate for more responsibility, and establish whether you're in the career that's right for you. -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.1 BRZVernick, Shirley Reva.
Summary: Latent hostility against the Jews erupts in a blood lie when Daisy, a young Gentile girl, disappears in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2011
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Bolstad, Erika
Summary: "Author Erika Bolstad was shocked to learn she had inherited mineral rights in North Dakota in the throes of an oil bonanza. Determined to unearth the story behind her unexpected inheritance, she followed the trail to her great-grandmother, Anna, who her family had painted to be a courageous homesteader who paved her way in the unforgiving American West. But, Bolstad discovers a darker truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BOLSTAD BOLDeiters, Erika.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.7 DEIMontgomery, Erika
Summary: "For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood-it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONJohansen, Erika
Summary: "The finale to the ...Tearling trilogy, in which Kelsea is imprisoned by the Red Queen and her guard must find a way to set her free"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohansen, Erika
Summary: The evil kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, with dire consequences for Kelsea and her realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHBrzezinski, Mika.
Summary: Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. On Morning Joe, she is often so adamant about improving America’s eating habits that some people have dubbed her “the food Nazi.” What they don’t know is that Mika wages a personal fight against unhealthy eating habits every day, and in this book she describes her history of food obsession and distorted body image, and her lifelong struggle to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Publishing 2013