Albertine, Viv
Summary: "At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task of sorting through her mother's affairs. In that process she came across one fatally curious item: a bag labelled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBERTINE, VIV ALBUmino, Chica.
Summary: Takemoto is an art student in Tokyo trying to make ends meet while dealing with friends, family, and relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HONUmino, Chica.
Summary: "Takemoto's journey across Japan continues, and though he's sleeping in empty lots and subsisting on convenience store food, he seems to be getting closer to understanding what made him ride away from school and his friends. But with his money running out and his bike on its last legs, will he have to give up his quest before he finds what he's looking for?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HONAlberti, Rafael
Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALBAchebe, Chinua.
Summary: A fictional account of African politics that prophesieses social change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACHAchebe, Chinua.
Summary: A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obama's election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHEBE, CHINUA ACHUmino, Chica
Summary: "Rei Kiriyama is a seventeen-year-old professional shogi player who lives alone in Tokyo's uptown. Unfortunately, the young man lost his family at a young age, sending his life into a deep world of solitude. This is a heartfelt tale of how he recovers his life upon coming into contact with the Kawamoto sisters--Akari, Hinata, and Momo." -- Page [4] cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Denpa, LLC 2023
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Summary: Rei Kiriyama is a seventeen-year-old professional shogi player who lives alone in Tokyo's uptown. Unfortunately, the young man lost his family at a young age, sending his life into a deep world of solitude. This is a heartfelt tale of how he recovers his life upon coming into contact with the Kawamoto sisters--Akari, Hinata, and Momo.
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Summary: Takemoto is an art student in Tokyo trying to make ends meet while dealing with friends, family, and relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HONMoorman, Chick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.23 MOOAchebe, Chinua.
Summary: First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1994
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Summary: "Born in a small town in India, growing up to study law, he became a powerful voice for change and is now known all over the world as a symbol of perseverance and peace."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People GandhiVignocchi, Chiara
Summary: It all begins with one tasty nut, hanging on the highest branch of a tree. A little Mouse looks at it longingly - he wants to eat it, so very much. But how can he get it down? By shaking the tree, of course! Can you, the reader, help him? Shake the tree - a little to the right (shake) ... and a little to the left (shake shake). But - uh-oh - something else is falling from the tree, and it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIGChiba, Michiko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.73 JAPMiéville, China.
Summary: London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEChitra Soundar
Summary: Presents a selection of stories inspired by traditional Indian folklore, in one of which, "All's Well with Mango Pickles," Prince Veera and his best friend, Suku, preside over the court of the prince's father and must solve the mystery of how jewels turned into pickles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHISoundar, Chitra
Summary: The rain clouds are long gone and the dry season scorches the land. Everything is new for the baby giraffe. As she bounds ahead and lags behind, her mother patiently explains the ways of the grasslands. And until she grows a little taller, older, and wiser, her mother reminds her: "You're strong with me."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOUHamilton, Chico
Contents: Mr. Hamilton -- A little bit of this, a little bit of that -- Ain't she sweet -- Yeh yeh (for Carlos Santana) -- How's your feelings -- You name it -- Don't be that way -- Cary's footsteps -- (If you think you're) groovy -- What's your story, morning glory? -- Without love (nothing matters) -- Just play the melody -- BONUS TRACK: Mudd & Chico Hamilton-Kerry's caravan (main version)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joyous Shout! 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HamilHamilton, Chico
Contents: Man from two worlds -- Blues medley. Little sister's dance ; Shade tree ; Island blue -- Forest flower. Sunrise ; Sunset -- Child's play -- Blues for O. T. -- Mallet dance -- Love song to a baby -- Passin' thru -- Transfusion -- Lady Gabor -- Lonesome child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 1993
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Summary: Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEMiéville, China.
Summary: When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIERicca, 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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Summary: " 'Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full of adventure and acts of courage, it's hard to believe she actually lived. And yet she did! Brad Ricca has founda heroine for the ages, and written her tale with a winning combination of accuracy and imagination.' --author Paula McLain. From the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, O RICRivera, Chita
Summary: "She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero--until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores--the irreverent side of the sensual, dark, and ferocious Chita--was always present and influential in creating some of Broadway's most iconic roles, including Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Claire in The Visit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023