Okporo, 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 OKPAtogun, Odafe
Summary: "A stunning debut from a fresh Nigerian literary voice: a mesmerizing, deceptively simple, Kafkaesque narrative, resonant of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and lightly informed by the life of Nigerian musical superstar Fela Kuti--a powerful story of love, sacrifice, and courage. The day a stained brown envelope reaches Taduno from his homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATOEdan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDAEdan.
Contents: Polite meeting -- Funky voltron -- I see colours -- Fumbling over words that rhyme -- Murder mystery -- Torture chamber -- Making planets -- Time outt -- Rock and roll -- Beauty -- The science of the two -- Smile -- Promised land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lewis Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EdanAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAOkeowo, Alexis
Summary: In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 OKEFeldman, Elane.
Summary: Explores, through text and illustrations, how fashions and clothes reflect the social, political, and cultural climate of their time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 FELMcCoy, Edain
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for astral projection techniques, including travelling to different times and eras, reuniting with departed loved ones, and receiving direction from spirit guides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.9 MCCContents: Disc 1. (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay ; Sweet Lorene (Otis Redding). I thank you ; Wrap it up (Sam & Dave). Don't pass your judgement ; I wanna be (your lover & your honey) (The Memphis Nomads). I was born to love you ; I'm so glad you're back (Shirley Walton). Lovey dovey ; New Year's resolution (Otis Redding, Carla Thomas). I got a sure thing ; Girl, you have my heart singing (Ollie & the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES STAMcCoy, Edain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.3 MCCDafoe, Willem
Summary: A biography of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ATDafoe, Willem
Summary: Set in the late 19th century, follows two lighthouse keepers stranded on an isolated island due to a storm and gradually going insane.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIGScafe, Morgan
Summary: What happens to a child when no one is paying attention? Evil comes calling. A harrowing true story of a little girl caught in the perfect storm. After years of sickening abuse perpetrated by her best friend's father, the 14-year-old learns that some silences are meant to be broken. But who can she turn to? If she tells, he will kill her. Desperate for help that she cannot summon, she writes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Scage 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Dare, Douglas
Contents: Doublethink -- Greenhouse -- Oh father -- New York -- The edge -- Binary -- Stranger -- Venus -- Thinking of him -- Res
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erased Tapes Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DARPosey, Rafe
Summary: "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSDame, Guyles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edna Dame 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 DAM-22 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 DAM-1
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Dare, Douglas
Contents: I am free -- Red arrows -- Heavenly bodies -- The piano room -- Silly games -- The joy in Sarah's eyes -- The stairwell -- Wherever you are -- The window -- The playground -- Run
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DARDate Palms
Contents: Yuba source, part 1 -- Six hands to the light -- Yuba source, part 2 -- Yuba reprise -- Night riding the skyline -- dusted down -- Exodus due west.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thrill Jockey Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DATDake, James
Summary: 176-page book with color photography describes hundreds of species in the northwest Michigan region, from birds and mammals, insects, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, to trees and wildflowers, fungi, ferns and mosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grass River natural area, Inc. 0000
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 DAKLepucki, Edan.
Summary: "The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEPMartin, Rafe
Summary: A lost boy who has grown up in the sea with seals returns to his tribe but is strangely changed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.21 MARMurphy, Eddie
Summary: When leaves start falling from a magical tree in his yard, a fast-talking literary agent discovers that he has to let his actions speak louder than his words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ThPalmieri, Eddie.
Contents: Puerto Rico (6:50) -- No pienses asi (4:28) -- Condiciones que existen (4:08) -- Adoracion (9:150 -- Cosas del alma (5:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Nonesuch 1994