Contents: It's backfirin' now (the North Mississippi Allstars) (3:57) -- Things about comin' my way (Ndidi Onukwulu) (4:52) -- Stop and listen (John Hammond) (3:46) -- Honey babe let the deal go down (Bruce Cockburn) (3:56) -- Bootlegger's blues (Oh Susanna ; arrangement by Van Dyke Parks) (3:42) -- Sitting on top of the world (the Carolina Chocolate Drops) (3:16) -- Too long (Danny Barnes) (3:59) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Hen Music 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY THIDido
Contents: No freedom -- Girl who got away -- Let us move on (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -- Blackbird -- End of night -- Sitting on the roof of the world -- Love to blame -- Go dreaming -- Happy New Year -- Loveless hearts -- Day before we went to war.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIDDido.
Summary: "...[DIDO has] crafted a set of elegantly rockin' romantic yearners...swelling-stringed emoters...[that] create a lovely sonic intamacy." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly 6/4/99, p.86-7.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIDDido
Contents: White flag -- Stoned -- Life for rent -- Mary's in India -- See you when you're 40 -- Don't leave home -- Who makes you feel -- Sand in my shoes -- Do you have a little time -- This land is mine -- See the sun.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DidoSummary: As the Black Panther and an Avenger, T'Challa has had to save the world time and again - but those duties pale in comparison to his responsibilities as king of Wakanda.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BLAZaidi, Mohsin
Summary: A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Mohsin grew up in a poor pocket of east London, in a devout shia Muslim community. His family were close-knit and religiously conservative. From a young age, Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAIDI, MOHSIN ZAIChanani, Nidhi
Summary: Shark princesses Kitana and Mack are back, just in time to attend the ocean's first Surfin' Sharks competition! Surfing is Mack's favorite sport, and he's been working really hard on his routine. But after a high-flying performance, he becomes discouraged once he sees a more talented shark and decides to quit for good. Shark princesses Kitana and Mack are back, just in time to attend the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHAAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIChanani, Nidhi
Summary: "Kitana, a self-proclaimed Shark Princess, and her best friend Mack go on an underwater adventure in an abandoned shipwreck"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHANdibe, Okey
Summary: "This debut novel from the author of the powerful, universally acclaimed Foreign Gods, Inc. looks at a woman's drowning and the ensuing investigation in an emerging African nation. A young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the "madman" Bukuru, is asked to account for her death. His shocking revelations land him in court. Alone and undefended, Bukuru must...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NDIChanani, Nidhi
Summary: "A young girl hears stories from her aunties and then begins to imagine all the possibilities for her future"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHASims, Nandi
Summary: "What are the variations of the English language? This book takes students across the country to learn about different regional cultures and how they impact the English language we speak"--OCLC.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 401 SIMRedgrave, Naida
Summary: Mary Seacole is now known for her medical work in the Crimean war, and as a brilliant woman who combated the racial prejudice she experienced in her lifetime. But for a long time her story was lost. From growing up in Kingston, Jamaica as the daughter of a doctress to helping soldiers in the war, discover the details of the amazing life that Mary Seacole led in this beautifully illustrated book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People SeacoleOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport... and that's not the only thing she's hiding. She and Letme become part of a community of human and alien immigrants; but as their crusade for equality...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OKOChanani, Nidhi
Summary: When Princesses Kitana and Mack learn a mysterious deep ocean shark has not been invited to the shark party, the two set off on an adventure to invite her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHAChanani, Nidhi
Summary: When her granddaughter Aria comes to stay with her, making it her mission to turn her boba cafae around, Jing Li, who is the secret keeper of the monster of San Francisco, is overrun with customers while Aria sneaks away to reason with the earthquake-causing monster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C.W. Daniel Company Limited 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 FAITouré, Sidi.
Contents: Ni see ay ga done = It is to you that I sing -- Maïmouna -- Aïy faadji = I am nostalgic -- Woy tiladio = Beautiful Woman (Goddess of water) -- Koïma = The pink dune of Koïma -- Ishi tanmaha = They no longer hope -- À chacun sa chance = To each his own luck -- Kalaa ay makoïy = I must go -- Tondi karaa = The white stone -- Euzo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thrill Jockey Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TOUOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York's Tower 7. She is an "accelerated woman"--only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix's abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan--something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OKONaqvi, Binte Zehra
Summary: "How will Rahmah get back to the ocean? This is a story about the adventures of Rahmah, the raindrop, who is swept away by the wind as she is falling into the ocean. Now, Rahmah needs to find her way back to the ocean! Along the way, she meets a little seed, a rose bush and a bird. They all need Rahmah's help! Will Rahmah be able to help them and find her way to the ocean?"--Back cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kisa Kids Publications 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAQOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of Udide's ghazal will put all of Sunny's hard lessons and abilities to the test.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022