Reid, Eliza
Summary: "Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 REIBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuRees, Celia
Summary: Germany, 1946. Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, Edith Graham applies-- and is also recruited by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Contents: Prologue (We might play all night) -- Baptist fashion show -- Church blues revelation/Freight train -- Arlington Hill -- Sole brother -- Must have been high -- Mom song -- Merci beaucoup, M. Godard -- Amsterdam -- Keys (Marianna) -- Keys (It's alright) -- We just had sex -- Stoned -- Berlin : a black hole with taxis -- May Day (There's a riot goin' down) -- What's inside is just a lie/And now...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghostlight 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PASReed, Eli
Contents: Hold out -- Your sins will find you out -- Cut ya down -- Movin' -- Tomorrow's not promised -- My way home -- Eyes on you -- The strangest thing -- I'd rather be alone -- A few more days -- What have we done.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REEReed, Eli
Contents: Stake your claim -- Am I wasting my time -- It's easier -- The satisfier -- Take my love with you -- I'll roll with you -- She walks -- I'm gonna getcha back -- Won't give up without a fight -- (Am I just) fooling myself -- (Doin' the) boom boom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Q Division 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REEKing Neil, Aliya
Summary: D wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, but discovers after a long day at school that while not every day will be a good day, the bad ones will pass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KINReed, Eli
Summary: "Eli 'Paperboy' Reed pays homage to country legend Merle Haggard by putting a soulful spin on some classic tunes. Recorded in Brooklyn with longtime collaborator Vince Chiarito (Black Pumas, Charles Bradley), Reed taps into all the heartache of Haggard's iconic catalog and channels it into explosive, high-octane performances that blur the lines of genre, geography, and race to reveal the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK REEReed, Eli.
Contents: Young girl -- Name calling -- Help me -- Just like me -- Come and get it -- Pick a number -- I found you out -- Tell me what I wanna hear -- Time will tell -- You can run on -- Pick your battles -- Explosion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REESummary: While raising the ruins of a long-buried Chinese kingdom, billionaire inventor Tony Stark digs up far more than he bargained for. He unleashes an age-old prophecy that foretells the resurrection of the Mandarin, the emperor of China's darkest and most violent dynasty. In order to confront destructive forces, Tony creates an armored suit infused with high-tech weaponry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROReik
Contents: Qué gano olvidándote -- Vámonos lejos -- De rodillas -- Voy a olvidarte -- Spanglish -- Un amor de verdad -- Ya me enteré -- We only have tonight -- Náufragos -- Al fin estás aquí (featuring Felix y Gil) -- Ya me enteré (urban version) (featuringNicky Jam).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN REISummary: Twenty-one bestselling authors have written short stories to accompany Jonathan Diaz's fantastical photographs of children who are battling cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TRUSummary: Fulfilling his beloved wife's dying wish, a man restores an abandoned building they own into a reading room for a depressed community notorious for its ineffectual high school and street gangs. He is determined to give them a sense of self-respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: John Cassavetes' first film tells a gripping story of racism set against a New York background in the 1950s. Lelia, a light-skinned black woman living in New York with her two brothers, has an affair with a white man. But when her lover meets one of Lelia's brothers and discovers she is black, a painful and emotional eruption occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Artists 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ShaSummary: The Toro cheerleading squad has spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship torphy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain, Torrance, the Toros' road to cheer glory stumbles when she discovers their perfectly choreographed routines were stolen from a hot hip-hop squad across town. Now the squad must scramble to find a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Poets, public figures and members of various communities join series creator Elisa New to engage in close readings of a single American poem. Each episode mixes lively discussion with archival materials, location footage, and vivid animation. The series offers audiences an immersive and accessible experience in reading poems that touch on many aspects of American life, past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POESummary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LASCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: A possessed pair of jeans is brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company's flagship store, the killer jeans proceed to wreak carnage on staff who are locked in overnight to set up the new collection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Reid, C. L.
Summary: Emma and her third grade class are going on a field trip to the American History Museum and must write about an exhibit they enjoyed; her best friend Izzie likes the first ladies' gowns, but Emma decides that her favorite is the portraits of the presidents. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE REIReid, C. L.
Summary: Emma and her brother are staying at their grandmother's house for a full week; she has packed her favorite stuffed toy and the recharger for her cochlear implant, but she is a little worried about feeling homesick--but with her grandmother keeping her busy, and the help of a new deaf friend named Nick, the week flies by. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE REICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REISummary: After the apocalypse, only two tribes remain desperate humans and the roving vampires that feed on them. Across the desolate West, John Shepard seeks the aging head vampire, hoping to destroy him and free mankind. But when Shepard and his posse of native sons and farmers' daughters join forces with a local militia, they learn that they're closer to the Master than they think.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023