Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: The Chew: A Year of Celebrations will guide you through the planning, cooking, and, of course, rejoicing in the year's most celebrated events. With a complete spread for each celebration, including drinks, appetizers, entrIes, sides, and desserts, the guesswork is taken out of menu creation; all that's left to do is prepare and enjoy the fantastic food. Everyone will feel the love in the air...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingswell 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 CHEAsher, Donald.
Summary: Offers tips on writing an essay for admission to graduate school, provides an explanation of the admissions process, gives advice on securing letters of recommendation, and features resources for locating scholarships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 ASHAsher, Jay.
Summary: When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ASHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ASHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AshPowell, Asher
Summary: This comprehensive career guide helps readers take a close look at coding as a career path and gives them a long, actionable list for turning their interests into a career across a variety of fields. Whether a student is interested in games, engineering, design, or systems administration, each career path comes with a detailed list of resources and first-person accounts from professionals in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 331 POWAsher, Colin
Summary: "This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and exposes how his radical politics sabotaged his career. For a time, Nelson Algren (1909-1981) was America's most famous author. Millions bought his books; The Man with the Golden Arm, winner of the first National Book Award, was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra. Yet the cause of Algren's decline was never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALGREN, NELSON ASHAsher, Jay
Summary: When high school student Clay Jensen receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ASHAsher, Jay
Summary: An intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect YA listeners. Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker-his classmate and crush-who recently committed suicide. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ASHAsher, Neal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHAsher, Gerald.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 AshAsher, Jay
Summary: Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ASHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ASHAsher, Peter
Summary: A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with the band and its members. He had a front-row seat as they elevated pop music into an art form, and he was present at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 ASHGamedze, Asher
Contents: Turbulence's pulse -- Wynter time -- Locomotion -- If it rains. To pursue truth -- Melancholia -- Alibama -- Can't see the sun -- Sometimes I think to myself -- Out stepped Zim -- Underground formation -- Live in Cairo. Melancholia ; If It rains. to pursue truth ; Out stepped Zim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023