Summary: Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIR
Enriquez, Mariana
Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRContents: E ma muu obun se aya (I.K. Dairo & His Blue Spots) -- Ariwo (Chris Ajilo and His Cubanos) -- Aye wa a kale (I.K. Dairo and His Ink Spots) -- Baby I tire (Charles Iwegbue and his group) -- Iba awon agba (Haruna Ishola and His Group) -- Chukwu Fulu m n'anya (E.C. Arinze) -- Cool cats invitation (Victor Ola-Lya and His Cool Cats) -- Iyawo Ile (Ganiyu Kale and His Guinea Mambo) -- Freedom highlife...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NIGCarman
Contents: Disc 1. Heart of a champion -- Jesus period -- Prayer -- Great God -- A witch's invitation -- Who's in the house -- The river -- Holdin' on -- My story -- Jericho, the shout of victory -- I feel Jesus -- Now's the time -- Legendary mission -- Mission 3:16 -- America again.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS CARCarman
Contents: I got the joy (4:29) -- Sunday's on the way (6:17) -- Revive us, oh Lord (3:46) -- Lazarus come forth (6:24) -- Soap song (1:52) -- Lord of all (4:05) -- Revival in the land (6:29) -- God's got an army (4:27) -- No way, we are not ashamed (4:16) -- Radically saved (2:30) -- This blood -- Fear not my child (5:29) -- Celebrating Jesus (4:17) -- The champion (6:53) -- Serve the Lord (5:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS CARSamuels, Robert
Summary: "A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy-from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing-telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLOYD, GEORGE SAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FLOYD SAMSamuels, Barbara
Summary: Sophie and Winston are excited about raising chickens in their backyard in the city, but when will there be eggs?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMSamuels, Johanna
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAMSamuels, Barbara.
Summary: A boy who loves trucks is disappointed when he receives a cat named Lola instead of a toy fire truck, but Lola proves to be a "trucker" after all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMSamuels, Sharee
Summary: "I wear black when I work out; it's a funeral for my fat. Why a funeral? Because death is permanent; when something dies, it's not coming back. Sharee Samuels was seventeen and 256 pounds when she hit her rock bottom. But with incredible determination and an unflaggingly positive attitude, she went on to lose more than one hundred pounds over the course of five years. When she began documenting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SAMCardona, Melissa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.8 CARIslam, Farhana
Summary: "Meet a handful of the men and women that helped shape the early life of Prophet Muhammad. In these pages, you will find his mother, Amina bint Wahb; the women that loved and protected him like their very own, Halimah Sa'diyyah and Barakah (Umm Ayman); and his beloved grandfather Abd al-Muttalib, alongside his uncle Abu Talib. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.63 ISLLlanos, Mariana
Summary: In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LLANayani, Farzana
Summary: Nayani gives caregivers the tools for exploring race with their children. She offers practical guidance on how to initiate conversations; consciously foster racial identity development; discuss issues like microaggressions, intersectionality, and privilege; and intentionally cultivate a sense of belonging. In providing an overview of key issues and current topics relevant to raising multiracial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 NAYVollstedt, Maryana.
Summary: Presents 250 recipes for casseroles made with seafood, poultry, meat, vegetables, pastas, grains and legumes, and cheese, and includes low-fat selections, as well as tips on making casseroles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.821 VOLSamuels, Barbara.
Summary: Dolores has agreed to stop "borrowing" things from her older sister Faye's dresser, but then she discovers a special Valentine's Day necklace there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E SamCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE SAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SAMSamuels, Debra.
Summary: Presents recipes for traditional Japanese dishes that are accessible for the novice home cook, from such familiar favorites as chicken teriyaki and shrimp tempura to pumpkin rounds and mochi dumplings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 SAMSamuels, Talia
Summary: "Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect manor, and Ben gets a fake girlfriend for his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMCarranza, Leonarda
Summary: "In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARCartaya, Pablo
Summary: Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARBoteach, Shmuel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.6 BOTChocano, Carina
Summary: "Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed-up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 CHOCole, Carian.
Summary: I felt the wind rustle, warning me, telling me to get out of its path-but I didn't. I never stood a chance.A series of weather and road mishaps leave me trapped in the middle of a blizzard with a complete stranger. In the back of a pickup truck. For forty-eight freakin' hours.A stranger with long hair, tattoos, and rippling with muscle. A stranger with an insanely sexy voice and a wicked smile...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016