Soo, Kean
Summary: Portia is bright beyond her years, which makes it difficult to make friends in her new school, and her single mother is preoccupied, so when Portia sneaks into the woods after midnight and discovers a shy and sweet purple monster, she is delighted by her new friend--but Jellaby has secrets of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone 2014
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Summary: Ten-year-old Portia Bennett and her friend Jason continue to search Toronto for clues to the origin of the purple monster, Jellaby--but things turn dangerous when they are confronted with a tentacled monster with a taste for children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SOOHepinstall, Hi Soo Shin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5951 HEPRoop, Connie.
Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROOAbboud, Soo Kim.
Summary: Offers a study of the practices, values, and ideals that promote academic, professional, and personal success among Asian Americans, explaining how to instill a love of learning, how to get youngsters excited about school, how to guide a child's personalchoices with encouraging initiative and independence, and how to help children set worthwhile long-term goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 ABBSong, Sok
Summary: "Ten original fashion origami garments -- including everyday items such as jeans, shorts, and tops -- complete with written instructions and illustrated diagrams."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.55 SONDrouin, Claude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Serivces Genealogiques Claude Drouin 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 TREMBLAY DROMcVeigh, Sof
Summary: "Discover how easy it is to harness the natural goodness of plants that can help us feel great, look fantastic and have a healthy year. Sof McVeigh provides a wealth of easy-to-understand recipes and tips--tried and tested in her own home. Includes recipes for invigorating body scrubs and moisturising lipbalms, along with delicious jams and jellies using easy-to-forage-for berries. Features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.535 MCVSoto, Gary.
Summary: Book Description: For over two decades, the award-winning poet and author Gary Soto has been offering his readers a vision that transcends the ordinary, making him one of today's most celebrated Chicano writers. New and Selected Poems includes the best of his seven full-length collections, plus over 23 new poems previously unpublished in book form. From the charged, short-lined poems of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1995
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Summary: "Is our gender something we're born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today's society. Both scientific and objective, and drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult SohSolo, Hope.
Summary: The Glass Castle meets A League of Their Own in Solo , a candid and moving memoir about family, loss, and reconciliation from Hope Solo, the supremely talented, headline-making goalkeeper for the U.S. women's national soccer team. During the 2011 Women's World Cup, Solo became an idol, role model, and sex symbol to a new generation of young American sports enthusiasts, inspiring the kind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime, memory that is both real and imagined, according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SOKProust, Marcel
Summary: Le troisième volume de À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, qui décrit la vie parisienne à la mode de la fin du XIXe siècle, où le narrateur entre dans le monde brillant et superficiel des salons littéraires et aristocratiques. Salut et satire dévastatrice d'une époque, d'un lieu et d'une culture à la fois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC PROSeo, Danny
Summary: "...Danny Seo's creative ideas have made him America's leading authority on modern, eco-friendly living. In his latest book, he takes healthy cooking to a whole new level, providing it's possible to transform good-for-you ingredients into absolutely delicious dinners."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.302 SEOSeo, Danny.
Summary: Presents over one hundred projects for creative "upcycling"--using used and recycled products to create decorative items in the home, including leather belt doormats, bathroom towel picnic baskets, and a jar lid dining table --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Book Publishers 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SeoDruett, Joan.
Summary: Describes how the crews of two different vessels became shipwrecked on opposite ends of the same deserted island and the very different experiences of the two groups--one of which through sheer determination and fortitude overcame the challenges of theirenvironment, while the other descended into complete anarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.399 DRUSolo, Hope
Summary: The goalkeeper for the U.S. women's national soccer team reveals how she has repeatedly triumphed over adversity, from her childhood in Richland, Washington, to the realization of her dreams of being a world-class soccer player.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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Summary: "Ten original fashion origami models, including a variety of dresses, with written instructions and illustrated diagrams."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.55 SONDoucet, Julie
Summary: In My New York Diary - one of the first contemporary graphic novels - Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUCET, JULIE DOUDruett, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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Summary: "When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not speak English, and, unsurprisingly, struggled at school. But, then, in fifth grade, something happened to change his life: he discovered competitivedebate. Immediately, he was hooked. It turned out, perhaps counterintuitively, that debating was the perfect activity for someone shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.53 SEOSeo, Danny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001