Rojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 LETSummary: "A Most Anticipated Book (Refinery29, HipLatina, Publishers Weekly, Latino Book Review, and more)! Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope. In Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.8 WILSummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Hupfeld, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harms Inc. 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INGBetancourt, Ingrid
Summary: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogota, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.106 BETMichelin North America, Inc
Summary: Let Michelin s updated Large Format North America Road Atlas 2017 take you to your next destination. Large-format maps and larger lettering for towns and sites (compared to the midsize atlas) make for easier reading while the tiled format flows maps from page to page the ideal complement to GPS and online directions. Four jam-packed pages feature selected US and Canadian national parks, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 MICSummary: Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa 6Rinker, Sherri Duskey
Summary: Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This annually updated travel guide to Alaska and Northwest Canada is a must-have resource for travelers to these areas. "The Milepost" provides maps, diagrams, photographs, and an almost mile-by-mile travelogue of what to expect along the main roads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Communications Company, LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 MILHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HenMackenzie, Malcolm
Summary: The Jonas Brothers are not just a nostalgic phenomenon -- they are one of the most exciting bands in the world right now. When the New Jersey trio returned to save pop in 2019, they didn't mess around. Comeback single "Sucker" went straight to member on in America and became their biggest hit ever. Now we are living in a Jonas world, and it's beyond "Cool." Discover everything there is to know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MACShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "A moving account of one man's border crossings-both literal and figurative-by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Day War In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel's occupation. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHEHADEH, RAJA SHEMafi, Tahereh
Summary: "Determined to escape Cyrus, the mercurial ruler of Tulan, Alizeh, heir to the Jinn throne, realizes Cyrus may be the key to fulfilling her own destiny, while in Ardunia, Kamran finds a magical way to finally get to Tulan and rescue Alizeh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a lawless world, two renegades rob a bank to help save their friend and favorite hangout which is about to be repossessed. When they learn they have confiscated drugs instead of money, they find themselves fighting their way out of a million dollar drug swindle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HAROrsi, Tea
Summary: In this graphic novel retelling of Disney Wish, Asha finds her plea to save her community answered by a cosmic force called Star, proving that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRAKeahey, John
Summary: "A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 937 KEAZemlicka, Shannon
Summary: Briefly introduces the process by which rocks and asphalt are turned into a roadway using tractors, bulldozers, graders, and other equipment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 625.7 ZEMBlanchard, Rowan
Summary: Featuring art and writing from her favorite photographers, poets, and friends alongside her own journal entries and snapshots, STILL HERE is an unedited look at Rowan Blanchard's inner life--and a poignant representation of teen life in general.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 BLAMeister, Cari.
Summary: Odysseus and the Greeks had been fighting the Trojans for 10 when Odysseus comes up with a brilliant idea. Will his plan put an end to the war?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J398.2 CAPGobbell, John J.
Summary: It is 1968, a time when global upheaval seemed the norm. The war in Southeast Asia rages along with prolonged civil unrest at home. Amongst all this, turncoat Navy Warrant Officer Johnie Walker begins an extended relationship with the Soviet Union by selling top-secret crypto key lists. This prompts the Soviets to order their friends, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), to seize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: StarboardSide Productions 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOBLiu, Linda
Summary: "When a small pebble sees others gathering on the steps of the Museum of Rocks, he grows curious. Once inside the esteemed halls, he is shocked by what he discovers. The only rocks on display are glittering gemstones, geodes, and crystals! These beautiful stones make him wonder: Can he be special, too? Perhaps he'll find an answer in the World's Most Beautiful Gem exhibition ... or maybe, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023