Min, Anchee
Summary: Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINBrioza, Stuart
Summary: "The debut cookbook from one of the country's most celebrated and pioneering restaurants, Michelin-starred State Bird Provisions in San Francisco. Few restaurants have taken the nation by storm in the way that State Bird Provisions has. Inspired by theiryears catering parties, chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski use dim sum style carts to offer guests small but finely crafted dishes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BRIMin, Anchee
Summary: The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMin, Anchee
Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MinBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: "The shapes in these books are easy to recognize, thanks to the high contrast of the images in black, white, and red, the first three colors babies can perceive. Opposites includes images representing opposing concepts like small and large, empty and full, hot and cold, and open and closed."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 1995
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOORazzi, Jim.
Summary: Magic tricks, puzzles, games, and things to make from ordinary materials such as cereal boxes and plastic wrap, for children from four to eight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parents' Magazine Press 1974
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norsk Fakra Forlag 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 BRIBritz, Allison
Summary: "A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BRIRizzo, Theresa
Summary: How far would you go to save the one you love? Reporter Skylar Kendall has run from commitment all her life, pushing people away before they leave her, until her niece worms her way into Skye’s heart and settles in tight. Skye relaxes into a career she enjoys and relishes being a doting aunt. Then her niece becomes gravely ill. Unable to bear yet another loss, Skye is determined to find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzo Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIZMin, Anchee
Summary: Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIN, ANCHEE MINMin, Anchee
Summary: Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: A woman who grew up in China during its Cultural Revolution describes the grueling physical labor she endured on Red Fire Farm, her forced segregation from men, her sexual relationship with her platoon leader, and her introduction to acting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIN, ANCHEE MINBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: Anna the mole takes Bernard the wolf on a journy underground and encourages the reader to find different animals and objects that live or are buried underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Happy Fox Books, an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Archive (Musical group)
Contents: Blue faces (7:43) -- Driving in nails (6:47) -- The pull out (5:28) -- The false foundation (4:28) -- Bright lights (3:39) -- A thousand thoughts (5:31) -- Splinters (5:02) -- Sell out (5:38) -- Stay tribal (2:12) -- The weight of the world (7:25)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARCArchive (Musical group)
Summary: London/Paris/Brighton-based collective Archive return with a new album, 'With Us Until You're Dead'. The album, produced by long-time collaborator Jerome Devoise, will be released on the band's own Dangervisit Records via Cooperative Music on August 27, 2012.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dangervisit 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCVance, Anise
Summary: "A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly original debut novel. After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: Have you ever seen a wolf in glasses before? Poor old Bernard the Wolf can't see a thing and his big, yellow glasses make him look pretty silly and not at all... scary! Michael the Squirrel wants to help him get his sight back and get rid of those terrible glasses for ever! Following Michael's instructions, children can explore the woodland and will enjoy helping Bernard the Wolf play visual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Star Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 BARBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: Uses die-cut illustrations to show how the same shape can be found in different things, animals, and people, with shapes changing as readers turn the pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BARBell, Archie.
Contents: Tighten up -- I can't stop dancing -- Do the choo choo -- Love will rain on you -- (There's gonna be a) showdown -- I love my baby -- Girl you're too young -- My balloon's going up -- A world without music -- Don't let the music slip away -- Wrap it up -- Dancing to your music -- Ain't nothing for a man in love -- I could dance all night -- The soul city walk -- Let's groove -- Everybody have a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BELBongiovanni, Archie
Summary: "Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind-specifically for homos in their dirty thirties. Grind is a welcome distraction from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Surely 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Shepp, Archie.
Contents: Syeeda's song flute (8:26) -- Mr. Syms (7:38) -- Cousin Mary (7:11) -- Niema (7:06) -- Rufus (Swung, his face at last to the wind, then his neck snapped) (6:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! 1997