Blanc, JB
Summary: Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. As the headstrong young girl sets out to uncover the secrets of her new guardians, she discovers a world of spells and potions, and a mysterious song that may be the key to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Mas' best friend Haruo is getting married and Mas has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But then an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancee goes missing, and the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To clear his friend's name, Mas must first uncover a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIRHisakawa, Haru
Summary: A full-color manga about purrfectly professional massage therapists: fluffy cats who knead your troubles away. Nekoyama, worn out after another long day at the office, stops at a therapeutic massage parlor only to discover that it s run by a cat! Not only that, but the cat actually does the massaging?! As the professional meowsseur digs soft toe beans into Nekoyama s aching muscles, his heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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Summary: "Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIRHirahara, Naomi
Summary: "We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HIRHirahara, Naomi
Summary: "Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIRHirahara, Naomi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2006
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Summary: Nothing beats a massage from a cat! Having developed an addiction to the cats' comforting and therapeutic massages, Nekoyama and his fellow office workers return to the parlor. The cats work whenever they want, but lucky for Nekoyama and company, the parlor is open today. There's even a new cat working there!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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Summary: After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACKokoko (Musical group)
Contents: Likolo -- Azo toke -- Buka dansa -- Identite -- Malembe -- L.o.v.e. -- Tongos'a -- Zala mayele -- Singa -- Kitolo -- Tokoliana.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KOKKokoris, Jim.
Summary: Drifting through life on his good looks and his wife's money, apathetic Chicago attorney Sam finds his world shattered by a violent incident and journeys to the side of a television personality nun in the hope of acquiring forgiveness and spiritual peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOKOkporo, Edafe
Summary: "A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OKPORO, EDAFE OKPShirakawa, Gin
Summary: "Nanao used to be a house cat, but after tragedy struck, he was abandoned on the rough streets of Tokyo. Now, alongside his best friend and fellow stray Machi, Nanao has to fight every day just to get by. Aside from foraging for food and finding somewhere to sleep, Nanao and Machi must remain vigilant about all sorts of dangers, including humans who want stray cats gone. When a woman named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2023
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Summary: "A chance to rewrite their ending is worth the risk in this swoony romantic comedy from Kosoko Jackson. It's been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them meeting up at a café. Maybe Hudson wants to profusely apologize for the breakup. Or confess his undying love. . . . But no, Hudson has a favor to ask-he wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACContents: Crazy Afrobeat (Tony Allen) (4:56) -- Government magic (Antibalas) (10:01) -- Think Africa (Seun Kuti & Egypt 80) (6:54) -- Jekajo (Chicago Afrobeat Project) (7:44) -- Ibajekbe (what if) (Femm Nameless) (3:57) -- Trouble come, trouble go (Kokolo) (5:19) -- Òjóró (Dele Sosimi) (9:31) -- Di bombs (Mr. Something Something and Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet) (6:22) -- Fela day (Akoya Afrobea Ensemble)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROUKomori, Yoko
Summary: "When Tokiko's parents break up, she and her father move from the bustling city to a sleepy coastal town to live with her grandmother. Starting sixth grade in a new school where everyone has known each other their whole lives isn't easy. Things start to look up when local boy Yosuke, another outsider, wants to be friends. But then strange memories start to surface. Swimming in the ocean......
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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Summary: When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACJackson, Kosoko
Summary: "A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACUrasawa, Naoki
Summary: "A curated collection of eight short stories and graphic essays by famed manga author Naoki Urasawa, creator of the acclaimed series Monster and 20th Century Boys! Urasawa's characters confront fantastical elements ranging from psychic powers, toalien visitors to planet Earth, toattacks by giant monsters. On the flip side, the author philosophizes about his real-world experiences with the wild...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 URASummary: Meet Naruto's son, Boruto. Just like his dad, he's rambunctious, rebellious, and more than a handful. He's joined by the next generation of the Hidden Leaf Village, including Sarada, the daughter of Sasuke; and Mitsuki, a shinobi of mysterious lineage. Boruto and his friends have their hands full when they investigate a dangerous entity known as 'The Ghost.' Can he save the village just like dad?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BORKoford, Rebecca Whitman
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2021
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 KOFUrasawa, Naoki
Summary: "Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TWEUrasawa, Naoki
Summary: "Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TWEUrasawa, Naoki
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010