Alexie, Sherman
Summary: Plagued with a troubled past and a bad case of acne, Zits is a 15-year-old Indian boy on the verge of violence. He finds himself hurtled back in time into various eras, places, and situations that totally alter his perspective on his plight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEArthurs, Alexia
Summary: Presents a collection of stories set in Jamaica, New York City, and a Midwestern university, where multicultural main characters and their families navigate evolving senses of race, racism, family, and tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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Summary: Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALESummary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMIsaac, Oscar
Summary: During a violent year in New York City, a man struggles to keep his heating company running while dealing with his competitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOSZentner, Alexi.
Summary: A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 0000
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Summary: Not all sand traps occur on the links. Some may be found on a popular beach or lonely stretch of highway. A sensitive and two ghost hunters walk into a bar. The barman is silent and the barflies long dead. Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. An active haunt in a derelict biker bar on Route 66 is a dream come true for the PEEPs team until it turns violent. An SOS is sent to Mia Cooper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AarAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Alexie 2007Alexie, Sherman
Summary: Collection of new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEAlexie, Sherman
Summary: In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEBarad, Alexis.
Summary: Baby will love discovering the rainforest by touching realistic textures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Barad 2008Daria, Alexis
Summary: "After a messy public breakup leaves her face splashed across the tabloids, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez returns to New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country. A casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Su©Łrez, who is worried about his career after his last telenovela character was killed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DARDeacon, Alexis
Summary: The second test has begun. Contenders for the new chief find themselves divided against their will and flung into a dangerous game. While the struggle for power continues, Io and Nemas battle with their own identities--but when allies are turned against one another, who can be trusted?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 DEADeacon, Alexis.
Summary: "The chief matriarch is dying. Drawing her last breath, she declares a contest: let fate decide the one worthy to rule. Fifty souls are summoned in the night; fifty souls bound to the same fate. But this is no ordinary trial... And so begins the first task. This supernatural historical fantasy is the first in an epic trilogy"--Cover, page 4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 DEAHenderson, Alexis
Summary: "A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. The daughter of an union with an outsider that cast her once-proud family into disgrace, Immanuelle does her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENWright, Alexis
Summary: "An inventive, cacophonous novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down--where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum tree, tattered and fragile, the victim of a brutal assault by wayward local youths. These are the years leading up to Australia's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRICasale, Alexia
Summary: When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn't the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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Summary: "All Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn't seem impossible. He's a standout varsity football player. A good student. He works at the local movie theater to help his mother make ends meet. But it's hard to live a normal life when everybody in town knows that your stepfather is a white supremacist--a white supremacist who was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENSchaitkin, Alexis
Summary: "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHBeacher, Alexis
Summary: When a couple become trapped in a deserted hotel with their young child, disturbing events force them to face the secrets they have from each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NIGBurling, Alexis
Summary: Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 BURLandau, Alexis
Summary: "In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother's impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds"-- "As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. Ordered to report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021