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Brothers Comic books, strips, etc Courts and courtiers Comic books, strips, etc Friendship Comic books, strips, etc Heirs Comic books, strips, etc Inheritance and succession Comic books, strips, etc Princes Princes Comic books, strips, etc Stories in rhyme Tutors and tutoring Tutors and tutoring Comic books, strips, etcSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUAsim, Jabari
Summary: John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Asim 2017Asim, Jabari
Summary: Children are invited to explore their toes by playing "This Little Piggy."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOAD ASIAsim, Jabari
Summary: Complemented by black-and-white photos, a young readers' adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by the late civil rights activist recounts her upbringing in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and her fight for equality and justice in America's military environments,churches and courtrooms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROUAsim, Jabari
Summary: A baby discovers all the things she loves about Valentine's Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD ASIAsim, Jabari
Summary: A biography of the former slave and inspiring educator describes the hardships he overcame in youth, the circumstances that challenged his efforts to learn how to read, and his triumphant pursuit of a college education.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB WASHINGTON ASIAsim, Jabari
Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PREAsim, Jabari
Summary: Takes a loving look at knees from the vantage point of a mother's lap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ASISummary: After a man is beaten and declared dead, he suddenly sits up and walks out of the hospital on his own. Determined to start his life over in a new town and unable to remember his name or anything about his past, he becomes involved with a mother and her sons. Everything seems good until his past comes back to haunt him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANAkai, Higasa
Summary: The royal palace is bustling with successive arrivals, which is good news for lonely Leonhard! First, Beatrix comes seeking advice on how to cheer up her cuteness-starved fiancae. Then, young Prince Claude of Fonsein pays a diplomatic visit that pushes Leonhard's foreign-language skills to their limits. When Leonhard's dearest brother Bruno is next to arrive, everyone expects Leonhard to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2019
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Summary: "Dismayed by the disturbance at Cafe Mitter Meyer, Prince Licht is keen to investigate--but it seems his urgency may throw him under his coworker's suspicions... Licht faces a choice: hide or be revealed? Hinder or help? What lesson can Heine pull from Licht's turmoil?"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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Summary: "Princes Kai, Bruno, Leonhard, and Licht have been making great strides thanks to an excellent education from Heine, the royal tutor. Even so, with the return of Prince Eins, the eldest of the brothers and heir apparent to the crown, the wall they must climb in the struggle to become the most qualified candidate for the throne looks more colossal than ever. Can the four younger princes stand up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ROYAkai, Higasa
Summary: "Rumors of Heine's bloody connection to their father initially causes the princes' trust in their tutor to waver. When the truth of how Heine came to be the royal tutor is fully brought to light, will the darkness of years past yield to a brighter future--together?"--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2021
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Summary: Accepting the post of royal tutor at the court of the king of Granzreich, Heine Wittgenstein is a little professor with a big job ahead of him! Each of the kingdom's four princes has a rather distinct personality. Does their diminutive new instructor have what it takes to lay down some learning? It's a comedy of educational proportions!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ROYAkai, Higasa
Summary: "Prince Licht's fascination with coffee should come as no surprise given his affinity for his part-time job at the cafe, but when Leonhard suggests the bitter drink should be banned from the kingdom, can Lichie help him develop an appreciation...?"-- Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ROYAkai, Higasa
Summary: "Heine and the princes have overcome many a difficulty together, deepening the mutual trust between the teacher and his pupils. But even though Heine has walked closely alongside the princes as they slowly come into their own, the royal tutor himself still remains a mystery to them. When Count Rosenberg claims to know who he really is, could Heine's secretive past become public knowledge?" --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ROYAkai, Higasa
Summary: "When the king returns to court, it's time for the princes to prove their mettle. But not everyone's been exactly keeping up with Heine's lessons... (Hint: It's the prince who scored only a one on his assessment test... and that was for signing his name!) Can Heine really whip these boys into shape well enough to rule a country?" -- Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ROYAkai, Higasa
Summary: "While the nature of Prince Eins's ailment remains a closely guarded secret, the younger princelings are plagued by an even greater mystery. Professor Heine's youthful appearance has always left his age in doubt, but new evidence suggests the royal tutor has been connected to their family for much longer than anyone might have guessed!"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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Summary: When Leonhard receives an invitation to the Kingdom of Fonseine from Prince Claude, the princes set off on their first big trip together. Will this trip give Leonhard the opportunity to put his new language skills to some good use, or will he sink to his usual aggression?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: A young boy, Ali, loses his sister Zahra's school shoes. In order to stay out of trouble, the two come up with a plan to share Ali's shoes, but they must keep it a secret from their parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHISummary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHAkai, Higasa
Summary: "Seeing how the young princes have grown under Heine's tutelage, King Viktor decides the time has come to choose his successor. His five sons will have one last opportunity to demonstrate their worthiness--in the form of a speech that will be delivered to the whole city! The future of Granzreich will be decided in the final volume of The Royal Tutor!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022