Summary: Alana doesn't understand why she is always influenced by anger. But she has always been trying to fight it. Born during a volcanic eruption, which separated her from her parents, Alana was adopted by a rich woman who has been trying to help her live a normal life. As she reaches adulthood, Alana discovers the truth about her origin: she's no ordinary human being. She may in fact be the ultimate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SRI1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECUi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK UISaviano, Roberto
Summary: Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas. Nicolas Fiorilla and his gang of children--his paranza--control the squares of Forcella after their rapid rise to power. But it isn't easy being at the top. Now that the Piranhas have power in the city, Nicolas must undermine the old families of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVSaviano, Roberto
Summary: Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVAki, Evi
Summary: In Flavors of Africa, Evi Aki shares the traditional Nigerian dishes she grew up enjoying, as well as typical eats from all across the continent. She introduces customary recipes from each of Africa's different regions, including meals from Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Angola and more, all of which she collected with the help of relatives and family friends. Whether...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishng Co. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.596 AKIYpi, Lea
Summary: "A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated", she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B YPI YPIShulevitz, Uri
Summary: As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott ShulevitzKaur, Rupi
Summary: Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAUKaur, Rupi
Summary: A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018
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Summary: A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1978
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHUShulevitz, Uri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.068 SHULupi, Giorgia
Summary: "In their year-long visual correspondence project, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian woman living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American woman living in London, capture the inherent poetry of that subjective selectivity. Each week, they jointly selected one aspect of daily life - from sleep to spending habits to mirror use - and depicted their respective experience of it in a hand-drawn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc LupiCaine, Uri.
Contents: Mr. B.C. (8:55) -- This is a thing called love (7:09) -- When the word is given (5:17) -- 'Round midnight (4:14) -- Let me count the ways (6:31) -- Jelly (7:16) -- Just in time (7:47) -- We see (8:00) -- Jan fan (10:09).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Winter & Winter 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CAIOrlev, Uri
Summary: Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORLShulevitz, Uri
Summary: As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Shulevitz 2008Viano, Hannah
Summary: "Like Viano's PNW-bestselling S IS FOR SALMON, this is a beautiful alphabet book featuring papercut art representing natural elements. The flora, fauna, and geological features in this book are found throughout North America, so readers around the countrywill connect with Viano's gorgeous art and poetic/scientific text. Examples of the accessible but beautiful alphabet: A is for Acorn, B is for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2015
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2 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE VIASummary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAASummary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BECPusha T
Contents: Brambleton -- Let the smokers shine the coupes -- Dreamin of the past / feat. Kanye West -- Neck & wrist / feat. Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams -- Just so you remember -- Diet Coke -- Rock n roll / feat. Kanye West, Kid Cudi -- Call my bluff -- Scrape it off / feat. Don Toliver, Lil Uzi Vert -- Hear me clearly / feat. Nigo -- Open air -- I pray for you / feat. Clipse, Labrinth, Malice.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PUSShulevitz, Uri
Summary: "The first middle-grade book from a picture book master-a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SHUShulevitz, Uri
Summary: In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION ShulevitzShulevitz, Uri
Summary: Troto is a happy little car who likes to go places until he drives all the way to Cactusville and meets some big trucks that tease him for being so small.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2015