Atogun, Odafe
Summary: "A stunning debut from a fresh Nigerian literary voice: a mesmerizing, deceptively simple, Kafkaesque narrative, resonant of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and lightly informed by the life of Nigerian musical superstar Fela Kuti--a powerful story of love, sacrifice, and courage. The day a stained brown envelope reaches Taduno from his homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATOOkporo, Edafe
Summary: "A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OKPORO, EDAFE OKPAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAOduye, Adepero
Summary: A teenage girl must decide between the life that she wishes to have and the life that her parents have picked out for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARRodale, Maria
Summary: Maria Rodale was raised on real food. She doesn't think of eating homemade, from scratch meals as part of a trend or movement; it has always been her life. Raised in a family of farmers, bakers, chefs, gardeners, and publishers, Maria is used to growing, cooking, reading and writing about, and eating organic, delicious food. And now, for the first time ever, she's sharing her tried-and-true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 RODOdede, Kennedy
Summary: An American volunteer and a former African street youth recount their romantic relationship, his pursuit of a college education, and their founding of the first tuition-free school for underprivileged girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ODEOldale, Adrienne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David and Charles 1975
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.9153 OLDScafe, Morgan
Summary: What happens to a child when no one is paying attention? Evil comes calling. A harrowing true story of a little girl caught in the perfect storm. After years of sickening abuse perpetrated by her best friend's father, the 14-year-old learns that some silences are meant to be broken. But who can she turn to? If she tells, he will kill her. Desperate for help that she cannot summon, she writes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Scage 0000
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Summary: "Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RODDafoe, Willem
Summary: A biography of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2019
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Summary: Set in the late 19th century, follows two lighthouse keepers stranded on an isolated island due to a storm and gradually going insane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIGSontag Shogun (Musical group)
Contents: Badminton motif -- Leikkikalu -- Dusk bells -- Valo siroutuu -- Suddenly, this darkness comes over your face -- Hameentie -- On perceiving time -- Aaltoa -- Hidas Laulu -- Kuiskaan itselleni -- Mares motif -- Trampoliinilla Ikuisuuteen
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK SONRodale, Maria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0484 RODRodale, Maria.
Summary: The chairman of health-and-fitness publisher Rodale argues that modern organic farming practices are the best defense against global environmental destruction and a looming health crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.5 RODSummary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Rodale, Maria
Summary: "Learning ABCs through hiking terms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Contents: Doublethink -- Greenhouse -- Oh father -- New York -- The edge -- Binary -- Stranger -- Venus -- Thinking of him -- Res
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erased Tapes Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DARLindsey, Odie
Summary: "For readers of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South. Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story "Evie M." is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINPosey, Rafe
Summary: "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSDame, Guyles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edna Dame 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 DAM-22 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 DAM-1
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Dare, Douglas
Contents: I am free -- Red arrows -- Heavenly bodies -- The piano room -- Silly games -- The joy in Sarah's eyes -- The stairwell -- Wherever you are -- The window -- The playground -- Run
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DARDate Palms
Contents: Yuba source, part 1 -- Six hands to the light -- Yuba source, part 2 -- Yuba reprise -- Night riding the skyline -- dusted down -- Exodus due west.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thrill Jockey Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DATSummary: A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lorenzo's 2004Martin, Rafe
Summary: A lost boy who has grown up in the sea with seals returns to his tribe but is strangely changed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1993