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Spirit binders ; bk. 2Johnson, Alaya Dawn
Summary: "Zephyr Hollis is an underfed, overzealous social activist who teaches night school to the underprivileged of the Lower East Side. Strapped for cash, she agrees to help a student, the mysterious Amir, who proposes she use her charity-worker "cover" to bring down a notorious vampire mob boss. Soon enough she's tutoring a child criminal who possesses an angelic voice, dodging vampires high on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, Alaya Dawn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolden 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, Alaya Dawn
Summary: "Set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything - not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, Alaya Dawn
Summary: A young woman's coming-of-age story set in a world where wielding the power of magic requires understanding the true meaning of sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohnson, Alaya Dawn
Summary: A follow-up to Moonshine finds a summer in the city overshadowed by political fights to legalize or prohibit a blood-based intoxicant that has inebriated most local vampires, a situation that escalates when Zephyr learns that vampires have started dying after drinking the substance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COMMonáe, Janelle
Summary: "Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022