Summary: The identical twin brothers are living lives that couldn't look more different. Erik is a single and broke surfer bum whose failures are abundantly on display while Adam leads a seemingly successful life as a businessman and family man. Adam is accidentally killed by his wife, Ingrid, when she attempts to break up a fight between the two brothers. To avoid getting arrested for the murder and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Urrutia, Matilde
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford General Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERUDA, PABLO URRCiara.
Contents: Basic instinct (u got me) -- Ride (feat. Ludacris) -- Gimmie dat -- Heavy rotation -- Girls get your money -- Yeah I know -- Speechless -- You can get it -- Turn it up (feat. Usher) -- Wants for dinner -- I run it.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: LaFace Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CIAContents: Agua Clara / Vytas Brenner (3:56) -- Dejando volar el pensamiento / Daniel Grau (2:36) -- Relafica negra en tiempo de siembra / Un dos tres y... fuera! (4:05) -- Do it with class / Orchestra Julian (5:13) -- Gavilan / Vytas Brenner (5:24) -- Estoy viviendo / Fernando Yvosky (4:40) Delirio en fa menor / Daniel Grau (3:52) -- Mandingo / Vytas Brenner (5:38) -- Machu Picchu dos (el nin̋o anciano)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VENSycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
Summary: "Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart-it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYCWallace, Audra
Summary: Often called the crown jewel of Maine, Acadia National Park contains more than 47,000 acres of gorgeous coastal landscapes. As they explore the park, readers will learn about its plants, wildlife, and geographic features. They will also discover how the landscapes were formed, when people first arrived in the area, why the land was chosen to be a national park, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.1 WALLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARCitra, Becky.
Summary: "Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave the past behind. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering days are over. At the ranch she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CITMehra, Nishta
Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEHSacri Cuori
Contents: Bendigo -- Una Danza -- La Marabina -- Snake Charmer -- Delone -- Billy Strange -- Portami via -- Seuls ensemble -- Madalena -- Dancing -- Cagliostro blues -- Serge -- El comisario -- Dirsi addio a Roma
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SACCapra, Fritjof.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.01 CAPChura, Stef
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHUMardini, Yusra
Summary: Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARDINI, YUSRA MARSmyth, Ciara
Summary: A teen girl, Aideen, makes a journey from self-protectively tough to ready and willing to face her main problem: her single mother's alcoholism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMYHuhta, Saara
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMPatterson, Zahra
Summary: "Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ugly Duckling Presse 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PATRehman, Bushra
Summary: "In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. But when a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's idyllic childhood is shattered forever. In middle school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REHKirkland, Caroline Matilda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 9530
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 KIRBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Contents: A la deriva (featuring Flor de Toloache) -- Ningún lugar (featuring Trueno) -- (Escapándome) de mí -- En cantos (featuring Natalia Lafourcade) -- Lo que yo quería -- Algo bonito (featuring Ivy Queen) -- Cuando te miro (featuring Rodrigo Cuevas) -- Donde nadie más respira -- Traguito (featuring Mon Laferte) -- Paisaje -- No es importante.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CABCitra, Becky
Summary: "A YA novel about discovering family secrets. Rachel and her little sister, Jane, are spending the summer with strangers: their grandparents. Up until their mom's death a few months ago, she didn't even know they existed. When their last remaining uncle decides they can't spend the summer in Vancouver, they are packed off to the family ranch in the BC interior. But her new-found family isn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CITCurran, John.
Summary: "This follow-up to the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks features Christie's unpublished work, including an analysis of her last unfinished novel, and a foreword by the acclaimed actor David Suchet."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper/HarperCollins 2011