Shappley, Kai
Summary: Joy, a twelve-year-old trans girl, just moved to Texas with her mother and older brother. Her family has accepted Joy as the girl she is early in her transition, with little fuss, leaving Joy to explore her love of sports, competition, teamwork, school spirit, and worship. But when she is told she's off the cheerleading team, Joy wants to fight for her right to cheer. As her battle with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOSummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INFSummary: After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ricky takes revenge on the drug-pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend. Sentenced to a prison term, Ricky is confronted by a host of evil characters, including a sadistic warden, his assistant, and The Gang of Four, a group of powerful fighters who control fellow inmates through terror and threat of death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Shock 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RIKSharpley, G.D.A
Summary: A guide to learning Latin offers lessons on Latin vocabulary and grammar, with practice exercises, reading selections, and suggestions for students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 478.2421 LATBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRBird, Kai.
Summary: Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMES, ROBERT BIRKupferschmidt, Kai
Summary: "A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world-and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching color"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535.6 KUPWinding, Kai.
Contents: This could be the start of something big / Steve Allen (3:09) -- Georgia on my mind / Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell (3:48) -- Blue Monk / Thelonious Monk (4:28) -- Judy / J.J. Johnson (4:03) -- Alone together / Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz (3:33) -- Side by side / Harry Woods (3:02) -- I concentrate on you / Cole Porter (4:00) -- Theme from Picnic / George Duning (4:01) -- Trixie / J.J....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JOHSummary: Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRAStrittmatter, Kai
Summary: Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter­net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4482 STRChampley, Karl.
Summary: Karl Champley, master carpenter and host of DIY Channel's Wasted Spaces and DIY to the Rescue, offers 50 home-improvement projects to maximize space. Readers will learn to create hidey-holes under floor boards, construct fold-down changing tables, carve out shelving niches between studs in the wall, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 643.7 CHABird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRBird, Kai
Summary: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY CARHarris, Kai
Summary: "What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARHarris, Kai
Summary: "A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HarrisThomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThom, Kai Cheng
Summary: A young child magically transforms into different animal guises as their mother reassures them of her love, but when they get to school, their classmates are not as accepting of the child's fluid identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOShackley, Theodore.
Summary: "But who was the real Ted Shackley? In Spymaster, he has told the story of his entire remarkable career for the first time. With the assistance of fellow former CIA officer Richard A. Finney, he discusses the consequential posts he held in Berlin, Miami, Laos, Vietnam, and Washington, where he was intimately involved in some of the key intelligence operations of the Cold War. During his long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHACKLEY, TED SHAChapple, Justin
Summary: Chapple grew up with a large family, first learning kitchen tricks from his grandmother who made do with whatever they had, and she made the food delicious. His forte is adapting recipes for home cooks. Here he shares his signature time-saving tips and hacks.-- adapted from back of book
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 CHACai, Chongda
Summary: "An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time. Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAI, CHONGDA CAIKain, Christopher
Summary: "This book showcases some of the greatest trails across the US that can be completed while pushiking-hiking with someone in a wheelchair, mobility chair, or stroller. Part narrative, part guidebook, this book validates that anyone can experience the natural landscapes our country has to offer, no matter what mobility challenges they may face"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2020