Okosun, Ehigbor
Summary: "In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King's brutal genocide of her people--the darker skinned, magic wielding Oluso; and to live peacefully with her secretive mother while learning to control the terrifying blood magic that is her birthright....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOAfiriyie-Hwedie, Akosua Zimba
Summary: Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) and music. Language is an embodied practice, especially present through our hands. Words, specifically names, are a means of conjuring a certain kind of existence, and defining who one will become. Thus, different languages unlock different worlds, and the names speakers answer to open them up to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 AFIThompson, Laurie Ann
Summary: Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YEBOkun, Alanna
Summary: People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn't just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OKUSummary: Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born in Ghana with a deformed right leg but he beat incredible odds and became a hero after riding a bicycle across the nation, with only one leg. He helped bring political and social change to Ghana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: "58 songs arranged for voice, piano & guitar: rock, pop, country, broadway and the movies"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 GREBurton, Gary.
Contents: Semblence / K. Jarrett (4:01) -- Coral / K. Jarrett (5:48) -- Careful / J. Hall (4:42) -- Peau douce / S. Swallow (4:55) -- Midnight / S. Swallow (4:21) -- Radio / S. Swallow (4:42) -- True or false / S. Swallow-R. Haynes (2:21) -- Como en Vietnam / S. Swallow (6:43).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 1978
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ BURSohn, Won-Pyung
Summary: Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He lives with his mother and grandmother above their used bookstore, decorated with colorful post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you," and when to laugh. When a shocking act of random violence shatters his world, it leaves him alone and on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOHSummary: A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BRODufek, Holly
Summary: Busy on the Farm introduces children to modern farming. Narrated by Casey the farmer and Tillus the worm, this book teaches children how Frankie and Fern--Casey's hardworking Farmall tractors--feed, clean, and take care of animals while maintaining Happy Skies Farm. The book also explains the science and art of haymaking with Bailey Baler. Filled with colorful action photographs, fun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Octane Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 630 DUFSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads powerful attorney Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her father's past--where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HALContents: Achy breaky heart / Billy Ray Cyrus -- All by myself / Celine Dion -- Annie's song / John Denver -- Are you Jimmy Ray? / Jimmy Ray -- Bennie and the jets / Elton John -- Best thing that ever happened to me / Gladys Knight & The Pips -- Blue velet / Bobby Vinton -- Brown eyed girl / Van Morrison -- Calypso / John Denver -- Candle in the wind / Elton John -- Crocodile rock / Elton John -- From a...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lane Music Co. 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involviing their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRAMitchell, Chad.
Contents: Leave me if you want to -- Blowing in the wind -- The ballad of the Greenland whalers -- The John Birch Society -- Hello Susan Brown -- Blues around my head -- Alberta -- Golden vanity -- Come along home : (Tom's song) -- You can tell the world -- Last night I had the strangest dream -- Mighty day -- The whistling gypsy -- Dona, Dona, Dona -- Whup jamboree -- Johnnie -- Puttin' on the style.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Varèse Sarabande 2007