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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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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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: 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 MCCSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Dafoe, 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 LIGAdaf, Shimon
Summary: In the original text alongside the English translation, Adaf blends contemporary colloquial Hebrew, Arabic, and old Aramaic with biblical, Talmudic, and Rabbinic intertextualities. The collection is a powerful lamentation for Adaf’s sister, Aviva, who died at 43. Written from a witness of Israeli society, the daily violence taking place makes the grief reverberating through the poems both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.41 ADAMartin, 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, Call number: J 398.21 MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 MARHayes, Dade
Summary: Examines the current efforts among media and tech companies such as Disney, Apple, and Comcast to catch up to Netflix in the streaming video business with multi-billion-dollar investments in new arenas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.55 HAYDade, Olivia
Summary: Co-stars Maria and Peter, who once had an incredible one-night stand, find themselves unwillingly reunited to film a series on an isolated Irish island and spend six years balancing professional needs with their distrust for each other, but on their last night of filming, their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: 152-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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 DAKCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 577 DAKPosey, 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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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSDake, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 DAKDare, Lydia.
Summary: In Lydia dare's debut trilogy, Regency England has gone to the wolves! He gets crankier and crankier as the moon gets full... The rules of Society can be beastly-especially when you're a werewolf and it's that irritating time of the month. Simon Westfield, the Duke of Blackmoor, is rich, powerful, and sinfully handsome, and has spent his entire life creating scandal and mayhem. It doesn't help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2010
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Lepucki, 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 LEPDame, 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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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 DAM Vol 2
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