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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Amitié Romans, nouvelles, etc Cheshire (Angleterre) Romans, nouvelles, etc Fargo, Skye (Fictitious character) Fiction Friendship Fiction Lesbiennes Romans, nouvelles, etc Picture books Reno (Nev.) Drama Traylor, Bill 1854-1949Samuels, Sharee
Summary: "I wear black when I work out; it's a funeral for my fat. Why a funeral? Because death is permanent; when something dies, it's not coming back. Sharee Samuels was seventeen and 256 pounds when she hit her rock bottom. But with incredible determination and an unflaggingly positive attitude, she went on to lose more than one hundred pounds over the course of five years. When she began documenting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 SAMSummary: Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BILSummary: Jo Gillespie is a policewoman whose detective husband is killed in the line of duty while working undercover on a case. Her coworkers expect her to stay out of the investigation, but when alarming information about her husband comes to light, Jo loses faith in her police family and sets out to find the killer herself. Along the way she learns of the many dark secrets surrounding her husband,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states ... even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FRESummary: Marcus Aurelius Antonius is philosopher-emperor of Rome who summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FALSummary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WEShake.
Contents: Disc 1. Mood swing -- Live for friction -- Plugged in -- Here, there & nowhere -- Arise -- The floor filler -- Happy to be here -- March into darkness -- Breathe deeper -- Electron rider -- Stereotype -- Detroit state of mind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fractional Recordings/Rush Hour Recordings 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SHASummary: A little girl and her dying mother obtain the services of a talented cook. What begins as a six-month arrangement spans fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Codeblack Films / Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MR.Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mr. 2016Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MrSummary: The pups are ready for more mighty action in these six Mighty Pups: Super Paws episodes, including two double missions! When Mayor Humdinger's kittens get mighty powers, a super-thief steals Adventure Bay's treasures, and Harold puts the town under a deep freeze, it's up to the Mighty Pups and their new friends the Mighty Twins, to save the day. Plus, everyone gets a BIG surprise when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWSummary: Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch. There she mets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESSummary: It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DESSamuels, Robert
Summary: "A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy-from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing-telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLOYD, GEORGE SAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FLOYD SAMMiller, Sharee
Summary: Aria loves her soft and bouncy hair, but must go to extremes to avoid people who touch it without permission until, finally, she speaks up. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MILMiller, Sharee
Summary: "The story of Michelle Obama and her time in the White House, where she led in the growth of a kitchen garden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBAMiller, Sharee
Summary: Eager to make a good first impression at her new middle school, thirteen-year-old Charlie does her best to fit in until she meets a group of diverse Black girls who show her the importance of authenticity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MILSamuels, Barbara
Summary: Sophie and Winston are excited about raising chickens in their backyard in the city, but when will there be eggs?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMSamuels, Barbara.
Summary: A boy who loves trucks is disappointed when he receives a cat named Lola instead of a toy fire truck, but Lola proves to be a "trucker" after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMAlgotsson, Sharne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.29 ALGShame
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHASamuels, Johanna
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAMMakdisi, Saree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 MAKSamuels, Barbara.
Summary: Dolores has agreed to stop "borrowing" things from her older sister Faye's dresser, but then she discovers a special Valentine's Day necklace there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E SamCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE SAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE SAMSamuels, Debra.
Summary: Presents recipes for traditional Japanese dishes that are accessible for the novice home cook, from such familiar favorites as chicken teriyaki and shrimp tempura to pumpkin rounds and mochi dumplings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5952 SAMSamuels, Talia
Summary: "Margot Murray is a newly single, successful businesswoman with no interest in a cutesy seasonal romance after her breakup with her long-term girlfriend. Ben Gibson is an unlucky-in-love sweetheart in need of a woman to bring home for the holidays. Together, they make a pact: Margot gets two blissful weeks away from London in a picture-perfect manor, and Ben gets a fake girlfriend for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2023