Summary: This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASIHenson, Pene
Summary: "The great outdoors isn't so great for Sydney It-Girl Lien Hong. It's too dark, too quiet, and there are spiders in the toilet of the cabin she is sharing with friends on the way to a New South Wales music festival. To make matters worse, she's been separated from her companions and taken a bad fall. With a storm approaching, her rescue comes in the form of a striking wilderness ranger named...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENFinder, Rena
Summary: "The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FINKorb,Rena
Summary: Learn about cloud shapes, how clouds form, different types of clouds, and other facts about clouds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 551.57 Korb,Barron, Rena
Summary: Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There's only one thing Arrah hasn't tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARBarron, Rena
Summary: Immortal magic, shocking twists, and star-crossed romance collide in the electrifying conclusion to Rena Barron's trilogy. A king with a score to settle. A demon sowing rebellion. A girl who holds the power of the gods. Arrah has sacrificed almost everything in her battle against the Demon King. Now, forced to give up the gift of magic she'd sought for so long, she must decipher the legacy of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARBarron, Rena
Summary: Twelve-year-old Maya's search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BAROlsen, Rena.
Summary: "In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman's life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true. wasn't? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OLSPederson, Rena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 204.4 PEDRossner, Rena
Summary: "Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSTamimi, Ahed
Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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Summary: Explains, in very simple terms, the qualities and uses of air.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 551.5 Korb,Reese, Jenn
Summary: After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year-old Samantha Littlefield and her older sister, Caitlin, are sent to live in rural Oregon with an aunt they've never met. Sam wants nothing more than to go back to the way thing were ... before she spoke up. When Aunt Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card game called A Game of Fox & Squirrels, Sam falls in love with the animal characters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.252 RESSummary: In a futuristic Japan, the Sibyl System is charged with keeping the peace. Using extensive surveillance and biological monitoring to gauge the likelihood that individuals will commit a crime, the police are able to use weapons called Dominators to remove potential criminals from the population before they become a problem. Confident with the success of the System within their own borders, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PSYSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDBENEE
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BENAutry, Gene
Contents: disc 1. My dreaming of you -- My Alabama home -- Stay away from my chicken -- My Oklahoma home -- I'll be thinking of you, little gal -- Cowboy yodel -- Why don't you come back to me -- No one to call me darling -- Living in the mountains -- Yodelin' Gene -- Blue yodel no. 5 -- Left my gal in the mountains -- Why don't you come back to me -- Hobo yodel -- Dust pan blues -- No one to call me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY AUTBarretta, Gene.
Summary: Presents an introduction to the inventions of Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's most beloved figures, credited with introducing bifocals, daylight savings time, lightning rods, and the establishment of post offices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 609.2 BARBrown, Gene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan USA 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 BROEdwards, Gene
Summary: Imprisoned by Herod, John the Baptist struggles to understand a Lord who did not meet his expectations--a dramatic account offering insight into the ways of God.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2011
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Harris, Gene
Contents: Put it where you want it -- Magic lady -- Blues march -- Bird's idea -- Walkin' with Zach -- Jive samba -- You've changed -- Guess who -- Listen here -- Please send me someone to love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HARJohnson, Gene
Summary: With new drawings, photographs and working plans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell Maritime Press 1961
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8201 JOHKugach, Gene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1997