Summary: Rainbow is the daughter of Alma, the no-nonsense owner of a popular beauty parlor. Ruby, Alma's free-spirited sister, unexpectedy arrives after a ten year absence, causing Rainbow to confront her own sexual awakening and provoking Alma to reconsider her own self-inflicted repression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Ryokan

Summary: Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication (he excelled in scriptural studies, in calligraphy, and in poetry), Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool," refusing to place himself within any established religious institution. In contrast to Zen masters of his time who presided over large...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1996

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Aoki, Ryka

Summary: "Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021

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Yola

Contents: Barely alive -- Dancing away in tears -- Diamond studded shoes -- Be my friend -- Great divide -- Starlight -- If I had to do it all again -- Now you're here -- Whatever you want -- Break the bough -- Like a photograph -- Stand for myself.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Yova.

Contents: Moondog -- You're The Mirror -- Rain -- Where There Is Smoke -- Togetherness -- Would I Change It? (If I Could) -- An Innocent Man -- Make It Better -- Haunted.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Quartertone Records 2022

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Yola

Summary: Yola's arresting vocals captivate with sincere tales of heartache and loves lost, forgotten, and broken. A traditional sonic tapestry of orchestral strings, fiddle, steel, and shimmering tremolo guitars.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Loka

Summary: Loka, Ninja Tune's cult psychedelicists, purveyors of cinematic music that disturbs and troubles and intrigues rather than comforts, return with a new album, "Passing Place", An album which adventures through the outer reaches of psychedelia, jazz, and classical music.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ninja Tune 2011

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Anika

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021

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Anika.

Contents: Terry -- Yang Yang -- End of the world -- Masters of war -- Officer officer -- Sadness hides the sun -- No one's there -- I go to sleep -- Masters of war (dub).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Stones Throw Records 2010

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Otsuka, Ayako

Summary: Whitework Embroidery will show you how to make a variety of stitches including drawn work, pulled thread work, Hedebo, count work, and Schwalm. Full photo-illustrated instructions and all necessary patterns for each of 30 projects are included. Choose from a variety of elegant designs for the home and designs for baby including an heirloom christening gown, bonnet, bib, and booties. --Publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2017

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Summary: The summer before Chise goes to college, the fabled Wild Hunt goes mad and leaves a stampede of death at Elias's doorstep. Elsewhere, its leader sweeps a frail boy on a magical adventure and into a mighty storm. If they get too far, there's no going back.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Brodek, Ayako.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2007

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Mori, Kyoko.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000

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Apaka, Alfred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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Fujitani, Ayako

Summary: An aimless artistic couple try to make their names and works known in Tokyo; a homeless person periodically emerges from the Tokyo sewers to terrorize people; an agoraphobe meets a beautiful pizza delivery woman just as an earthquake strikes Tokyo.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Liberation Entertainment 2009

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Murata, Sayaka

Summary: Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018

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Brodek, Ayako.

Summary: "This gorgeous volume offers readers everything they need to know to capture, in paper, the perfect geometry and delicate beauty of snowflakes, sunbursts, and stars. Ayako Brodek (Origami and Kirigami) and Shannon Voigt (Quilling), two of today's leading papercrafters, provide all the techniques for creating seventy-five exquisite shapes that can then be used to fashion a multitude of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA 2013

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Lipszyc, Rywka

Summary: After more than seventy years in obscurity, the diary of a teenage girl during the Holocaust has been revealed for the first time. Rywka’s Diary is at once an astonishing historical document and a moving tribute to the many ordinary people whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust. At its heart, it is the diary of a girl named Rywka Lipszyc who detailed the brutal conditions that Jews...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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Akhtar, Aysha

Summary: Through the stories of a varied cast of characters, Dr. Akhtar reveals what happens when we both break and forge bonds with animals. She demonstrates how humans are neurologically designed to empathize with animals, and how violence against them goes against our nature. In equal measure, the love and friendship we give to other species biologically reverberates back to us.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Apaka, Alfred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1964

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Apaka, Alfred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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Asika, Uju

Summary: "Bringing Up Race is an important book, for all families, whatever their race or ethnicity. It's for everyone who wants to instill a sense of open-minded inclusivity in their kids, and those who want to discuss difference instead of shying away from toughquestions. Uju Asika draws on often shocking personal stories of prejudice along with opinions of experts, influencers, and fellow parents to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021

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Ayala, Vita

Summary: "At long last, Shuri faces her destiny! With her brother gone and Wakanda in peril, the Black Panther is needed-and Shuri must step up once again to fill the void. But the Princess of Wakanda is more than any mask - and she's about to face a threat unlike any her home has seen before! When it appears that an enemy of Wakanda has left a signature behind in America, Shuri heads overseas to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2019

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