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Leyh, Kat

Summary: When Snap rescues a family of baby opossums, she asks the town witch, Jacks, for help caring for them, but as Snap starts to get to know Jacks, she realizes that Jacks may have a connection with Snap's family past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020

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Summary: The film traces the phenomenon of othering in America, how marginalized groups of people are mistreated in a nation that allegedly cares about justice and equality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHO

Summary: Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAI

Holmes, Kat

Summary: "Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.4 HOL

Osunde, Eloghosa

Summary: "In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! traces characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician; a fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSU

Roy, Arundhati.

Summary: In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this... report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.137 ROY

Summary: "Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful first-person stories of dozens of men who are living on death row in the United States, offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the most marginalized people in America"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 RIG

Goyal, Nikhil

Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOY

Phillips, Caryl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHI

Boyd, William

Summary: Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him, his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOY

Gunning, Sally.

Summary: When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUN

Bourgois, Philippe I.

Summary: This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling and day labour.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9084 BOU

Roy, Saumya

Summary: All of Mumbai's memories and possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains at the city's outskirts. In this graveyard of castaway belongings, among the vast, teetering piles of discarded items--medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass, and twisted metal--lives a small, forgotten community of ragpickers. In this sweeping narrative, Saumya Roy follows the life of Farzana, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House, a division of Astra Publishing House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.728 ROY

Lent, Jeffrey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEN

Stone, Robert

Summary: "This volume brings together three novels by one of the most spellbinding writers of his generation, suspenseful masterworks that brilliantly capture the desperate underside of American life in the 1970s and 80s." -- $c Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STO

Stratton, Shelly

Summary: " Tracey won't say where she's from or what sent her into hiding. But her determination and refusal to give up reminds Delilah of the spirited, hopeful girl she once was-and the dreams she still cherishes. As Tracey takes tentative steps to rebuild her life, her unexpected attraction to Delilah's handsome, troubled caretaker inadvertently brings Delilah face to face with the past. And when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Choi, Franny

Summary: "Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. They explore...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 CHO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 CHO

Gunning, Sally.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUN

Straight, Susan

Summary: Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STR

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