Diva
Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIVSummary: Tells the story of the world's only yodeling country singing and comedy lesbian sibling duo, the Topp Twins (Jools and Lynda Topp), who have inspired a generation with their politics and celebration of joy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kinosmith 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOPSummary: Two strangers agree to carpool across the country for the chance to participate in a controversial study about the afterlife once a scientist has conclusively proven she can follow people's continued existance after their physical presence has been terminated. Teddy thinks he'll be more successful while Rose just wants a way out, but both are leaving people behind and have secrets that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Dee, Noor H.
Summary: Find out what as-salamu 'alaykum means and when to say it. A new series to help children understand common Islamic terms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DEEFagan, Deva
Summary: Apprentice wizards Antonia and Moppe must set aside their rivalry and unite their opposing skill sets to save Master Betrys, their island nation, and themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum, Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGPappas, Dina
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Martingale 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 PAPRiva, Renee.
Summary: When A.J. returns home to Indian Island, her dog Sailor, and childhood friend Danny, she surprises everyone with her plans . . . but Danny has something else in mind. For eight years, A.J. Degulio has been itching to get back to her beloved Indian Island. It's home. But a lot has changed: Sailor moves slower, Danny has grown into a man . . . and A.J. has a promise to keep.but it doesn't include...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVVaidhyanathan, Siva
Summary: This is the story of how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an indictment of how "social media" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302.23 VAIViva, Frank
Summary: "A boy and a mouse trek to the top of a volcano, taking in soaring trees, lunar landscapes and snow capped peaks, then return to the ancient city at the bottom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVDido.
Summary: "...[DIDO has] crafted a set of elegantly rockin' romantic yearners...swelling-stringed emoters...[that] create a lovely sonic intamacy." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly 6/4/99, p.86-7.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIDDido
Contents: No freedom -- Girl who got away -- Let us move on (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -- Blackbird -- End of night -- Sitting on the roof of the world -- Love to blame -- Go dreaming -- Happy New Year -- Loveless hearts -- Day before we went to war.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIDFagan, Deva
Summary: After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A. J. Degulio loved the idea of a visit to the Old Country... until her family decided to stay. Now it's 1972 and she's turning fourteen in a crumbling castle on a hill in Tuscany, wishing she were back in Idaho with her beloved dog, Sailor. In Italy, her blonde hair makes her stick out like a vanilla wafer in a box of chocolate biscotti, and she's so lonely her best friend is a nun from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVSobel, Dava.
Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBAlzayat, Dima
Summary: "The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALZDion
Summary: A street poet and singer of extraordinary versatility, range, and resonance, Dion defined rock n' roll for a generation. Now he has returned to his deepest roots and influences to release his first blues album with mostly original songs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Horizon 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIOFagan, Deva
Summary: Paro questions the system she once believed in and joins the Seafoxes, a ragtag team of players seeking to win the deadly Noctis games, to saver her grandfather.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGViva, Frank
Summary: Rhyming text tells of a boy's birthday at Coney Island, while each turn of the page reveals a new meaning for an oronym--a pair of words or phrases which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VIVWallander, Disa
Summary: "Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WALDido
Contents: White flag -- Stoned -- Life for rent -- Mary's in India -- See you when you're 40 -- Don't leave home -- Who makes you feel -- Sand in my shoes -- Do you have a little time -- This land is mine -- See the sun.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DidoCastleman, Riva.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 769.9 CASRiva, Renee.
Summary: "A quirky girl, a faithful dog, and one unforgettable summer." -- cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cook Communications Ministries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVSobel, Dava.
Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005