Atakora, Afia
Summary: "Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AtakoraAliu, Akim
Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALIARCA
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCAria, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 ARIIbomu, Afya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 IBOSzado, Ania.
Summary: In fashion-driven 1940s New York, ambitious fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle falls for French expatriate writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, while the author's estranged Salvadoran wife, Consuelo, is determined to win him back at all costs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SZAZakaria, Rafia
Summary: "A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ZAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 ZAKAlias
Contents: Ghost cloudz -- Crimson across it (featuring Doseone) -- Vermillion coda -- Amber revisions -- Gold clouddead skiez -- Joseph Greenleaf mornings -- Pistachio payoff -- Vallejo's sapphire views -- Indiiggo (featuring Therese Workman) -- Amethyst afternoon-- Pitch black prism -- Slackened onyx -- Aikotune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP ALICitro, Asia
Summary: "When an unexpected snowstorm causes trouble for the magical creatures of the forest, Zoey and Sassafras come to the rescue. But their first attempt to save trapped caterfly eggs results in a big mistake. Can they figure out a way to fix things before the baby caterflies hatch?"-- book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Citro 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CITAbawi, Atia
Summary: "As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDAria, Max
Summary: The mighty warrior god Thor does battle against the evil Loki who plots to destroy the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Invincible Pictures 2020
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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 VOLAria, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 ARIVictoria, Adia
Summary: Two years after the release of her critically acclaimed debut Beyond the Bloodhounds, Nashville-based modern blues woman Adia Victoria returns. The album was recorded with Aaron Dessner (The National) at his studio in upstate New York. Throughout the album's twelve tracks, Victoria brings the topics of mental illness, drug addiction, sexism, and all the elements that consume the day-to-day...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICZakaria, Rafia
Summary: "A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCFElhillo, Safia
Summary: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ELHVictoria, Adia.
Contents: Lonely avenue -- Dead eyes -- Out of love -- Mortimer's blues -- Sea of sand -- And then you die -- Howlin' shame -- Horrible weather -- Headrot -- Invisible hands -- Stuck in the south -- Mexico blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VICElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHArca
Contents: Alive -- Mutant -- Vanity -- Sinner -- Anger -- Sever -- Beacon -- Snakes -- Else -- Umbilical -- Hymn -- Front load -- Gratitud -- En -- Siren interlude -- Extent -- Envelopeped -- Faggot -- Soichiro -- Peonies.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Contents: Nonbinary -- Time -- Mequetrefe -- Riquiqui -- Calor -- Afterwards (feat. Bjork) -- Watch (Shygirl) -- KLK (feat. Rosalin) -- Rip the slit -- La chiqui (feat. Sophie) -- Machote -- No queda nada.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCArca.
Contents: Now you know -- Held apart -- Xen -- Sad bitch -- Sisters -- Slit thru -- Failed -- Family violence -- Thievery -- Lonely thugg -- Fish -- Wound -- Bullet chained -- Toungue [i.e. Tongue] -- Promise.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mute Artists 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCCitro, Asia
Summary: A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras, use science experiments to help a dragon with a problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Innovation Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CITElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHMinney, Safia.
Summary: Annotation Naked Fashioninvites you to join the movement of consumers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals who are using their purchasing power, talents, and experience to make fashion more sustainable.Anyone with an active interest in fashion and where our clothes come from or looking for a career in fashion and the media will find inspiration and advice on how to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Internationalist 2011