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Ada, Alma Flor Ada, Alma Flor. Barry, Ava Chin, Ava Glass, Ava Gratz, Alan Max, Ava Mýa Reich, Steve Reid, AvaAlvar, Mia
Summary: "A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new writer--vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk of life. Mia Alvar's stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back. One man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVGalvan, Ana
Summary: "A science-fiction graphic novella grounded in a familiar experience for most: spending an afternoon with our best pals over a burger and fries. But this joint has something more special than a Happy Meal: the "Once Party" menu. The "Once Party" menu, for ages 11 and up, can only be ordered once (of course). But there's a catch: not everyone who does gets the special prize. Those who do, go to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GALVolz, Alia
Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOLZ, ALIA VOLTrabucco Zerán, Alia
Summary: "Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner in the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRARocha, Ava
Contents: Boca do céu -- O jardim -- Você não vai passar -- Transeunte coração -- Auto das bacantes -- Hermética -- Beijo no asfalto -- Mar ao fundo -- Uma -- Tão tão -- Doce é o amor -- Oceanos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROCBarry, Ava
Summary: "1940s Hollywood was an era of decadence and director Theodore Langley was its king. Paired with Eleanor Hayes as his lead actress, Theo ruled the Golden Age of Hollywood. That ended when Eleanor's mangled body was discovered in Theo's rose garden and he was charged with her murder. The case was thrown out before it went to trial and Theo fled L.A., leaving his crawling estate, Windhall, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARSummary: Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo, a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MASummary: Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDTrabucco Zeran, Alia
Summary: "When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zeraan offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 TRAKittel, Jeremy Allan.
Contents: Curious beetle medley -- Golden-Plover set -- Remember Blake -- Chase -- May morning dew -- Disconnect -- Biting reel / Lost time -- F Chunes -- Woods -- Bear Island reel -- Napkin tune
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fiddlestick Music 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KITReich, Steve
Contents: Triple quartet (14:43) -- Electric guitar phase (15:51) -- Music for large ensemble (14:51) -- Tokyo/Vermont counterpoint (9:05).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ReichSummary: Based on the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. With a strong, faith-filled marriage, the Turners are ready to follow their calling: serving God, family, and country. Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Before the Turners can even unpack, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InSummary: An inquisitive young black woman discovers her biological father is an anonymous sperm-bank donor, a white used-car salesman whose cornball commercials blanket cable TV.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADBarry, Ava
Summary: Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARChin, Ava
Summary: "Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHIN, AVA CHIReid, Ava
Summary: "Follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant"-- In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline-- her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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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 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,Gratz, Alan
Summary: "In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GRAMýa
Contents: My love is like ... wo -- Fallen -- Why you gotta look so good? -- Step -- Sophisticated lady -- No sleep tonight -- Anatomy 10n1 -- Hurry up -- Things come and go -- You -- After the rain -- Late -- Whatever bitch -- Taste this -- Take a picture -- Free fallin' -- Bonus tracks. Moodring -- Extacy -- Real compared to what.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & M/Interscope 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MYAGlass, Ava
Summary: "In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city's security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly-minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2022