Grande, Reyna
Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRASummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Hsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSUSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISlater, Dashka
Summary: "When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.829 SLASummary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PORSummary: Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Summary: "One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALSummary: The continuing story of Chip Baskets and the Baskets family as Chip, his twin brother Dale and their mother Christine, continue to navigate the drama that is their lives in Bakersfield, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASSummary: "Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) wants to follow his dream of being a French clown. However, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown--and competing with his siblings for his mother's (Louie Anderson)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASMiranda, Deborah A.
Summary: "In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah Miranda tells both the stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. Reassembling the shards of her people's past, she creates a work of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MIRSummary: The continuing story of Chip Baskets and the Baskets family as Chip, his twin brother Dale and their mother Christine, continue to navigate the drama that is their lives in Bakersfield, California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALSummary: Comedy about an average California high school student who is forever changed by the surprise attack of a sexy female vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONCPolacco, Patricia
Summary: Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLAverbuck, Alexis
Summary: Lonely Planet's California is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region California has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Amble down Hollywood Boulevard, hike in Yosemite National Park and take a boat to the infamous Alcatraz, all with your trusted travel companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USAHarris, Kamala D.
Summary: Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA D HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HARRIS HARHolland, Tanya
Summary: "80+ comfort-filled recipes that trace the roots of modern California soul food to the Great Migration that brought African American culture to the West Coast-from the acclaimed chef and author of Brown Sugar Kitchen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 HOLNaber, Therese
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the California area, including the Hupa, Yurok, Pomo, Pit River, Miwok, Yokuts, Chumash, Cahuilla, and Luiseno nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, detailed maps, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 NABYang, Kelly
Summary: "They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YANCordell, LaDoris H.
Summary: Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal professionals and jurors who strive to make the imperfect system as fair as possible. Cordell takes you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CORDELL, LADORIS H. CORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CORDELL CORTakei, George
Summary: "Star Trek actor, activist, and author George Takei shares his empowering and moving story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TAKPham, Thien
Summary: "Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023