Summary: "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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Summary: The comprehensive guide to the 2023–2024 ACT test―including 8 genuine, full-length practice tests. The Official ACT Prep Guide 2023–2024 book includes six authentic ACT tests―all of which contain the optional writing test―so you get maximum practice before your test date. These full-length practice tests are also available on the Wiley Online Platform and mobile app alongside two additional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378.1662 OFFFrank, Lisa Tendrich (EDT)
Summary: Covers the role of women in the Civil War, from battlefield to home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO 2008
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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADAAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ISA SPANISHAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Acting on the advice of the old woman on the cliff by the sea, three brothers who wish to find brides go in search of three golden oranges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ADAAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ADA,Ada, Alma Flor.
Summary: A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ADAGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GERSummary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INAda, Alma Flor
Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX ADAAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1998
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 468 SpanishCall number: JE FIC ADA
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADAAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ADA SPANISHContents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROAde, King Sunny.
Contents: Sunny ti de (complete 5 song medley) (17:53). -- Sunny ti de. -- Bombibele horojo. -- Oro towo baseti. -- Ko salapata. -- African beats lu nsere. -- Synchro system (18:09). -- Ibanuje mon iwon (9:28). -- Afai bowon (6:40). -- Ogun party part 1 (9:01). -- Adena ike (5:35).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ADESummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Contents: Ja funmi -- Eje nlo gba ara mi -- Mo beru agba -- Sunny ti de ariya -- Ma jaiye oni -- 365 is my number/The message -- Samba/E falabe lewe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango 1982
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ADESummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRKellman, Steven G. (EDT)
Summary: Presents alphabetically arranged entries on the major authors of world literature, providing biographical information and an analysis of the themes and characters of their works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Press 2009
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