Summary: Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 GOOShukla, Sheil
Summary: "Indian food like you've never seen it before -- in a healthy vegan cookbook, with 100+ recipes and stunning photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56362 SHUShura.
Contents: (I) -- Nothing's real -- What's it gonna be? -- Touch -- Kidz 'n stuff -- Indecision -- What happened to us? -- (Ii) -- Tongue tied -- Make it up -- 2shy -- White light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2016
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Contents: That's me, just a sweet melody -- Side effects -- Religion (u can lay your hands on me) -- The stage -- Bklynldn -- Tommy -- Princess Leia -- Flyin' -- Forever -- Control -- Skyline, be mine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHUKapoor, Vikesh.
Contents: Bottom of the ladder -- The ballad of Willy Robbins -- I dreamt blues -- Blue-eyed baby -- Carry me, home -- I never knew what I saw in you -- Searching for the sun -- Ode to my hometown -- Forever gone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mama Bird Recording Co. 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KAPShukyn, Murray.
Summary: Get the skills and know-how you need to pass the GED test Earning a GED can provide you with an advantage over other job and education candidates and the confidence to take the next step. The GED For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you fresh and relevant example questions from the GED and even more hands-on training in each of the 5 subject areas to help you maximize your success and earn a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2010
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Lawson, Shayla
Summary: This collection of essays that focus on black girl culture features topics such as workplace microaggressions, how to become famous on Twitter, traveling while black, and reversing racist stereotypes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAWRaja, Sheela
Summary: "More than ever, teens need tools to manage stress and increase resilience. Based on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, The Resilient Teen offers ten key skills to help readers bounce back from difficult situations, deal with difficult emotions, and cultivate a sense of joy, even in the face of modern-day stressors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155.5 RAJSatyal, Rakesh
Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATChari, Sheela
Summary: Returning to Earth after escaping the Martian colony, Mars Patel and his friends, along with genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt, discover that all the adults have mysteriously vanished and, as tensions rise and new mysteries are revealed, must somehow discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAShuker, Karl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 SHUSikes, Amie
Summary: In their first book, the Junk Gypsies--sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show--combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson. Amie and Jolie Sikes, the Thelma and Louise of the design world, are the Junk Gypsies: a family with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 SIKShuker, Karl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 398 SHUD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: In this blockbuster follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza reveals how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 DSOD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: Bestselling author D'Souza exposes how Obama's Hobbesian philosophy towards government is threatening not only economic and personal freedom, but America's national sovereignty as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK D'SOLawson, Shayla
Summary: "Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1946
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.082 NILChari, Sheela
Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: One summer day on her great-grandparents' Kentucky farm, a squabble with her cousin Melvin spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will become her own special song made of memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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Summary: A farm family scurries for shelter from a violent thunderstorm that brings welcome relief from the heat and also an unexpected surprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CRUCrum, Shutta.
Summary: When animals seeking new homes see Old Mill Farm, they know that it is just right, while human house-hunters, shown a variety of houses by their realtor, finally make clear what they are truly seeking and wind up at the farm, as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2007
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Summary: "Crum uses only the title word (if you don't count a single "Woof?"), but the various inflections speak volumes about the comic dynamics of sharing...[Barton's] dizzyingly expressive digitized pencil sketches seem to be everywhere at once continually reframing the action to make sure readers savor every gleefully anarchic moment."--Publishers weekly, starred review
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: E CRUNiles, Steve.
Summary: In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comics series, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2011
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Senghor, Shaka
Summary: "In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands. In life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish. Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit's east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books 2016