Tempestt, Mimi
Summary: "Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance, Mimi Tempestt writes poems that are by turns cerebral, profane, revolutionary, comedic, erotic, and sentimental. the delicacy of embracing spirals is her second book, an investigation of the ways in which the personal narrative of Black womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lens....
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TEMRivera, Sara Daniele
Summary: "Sara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone -- all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RIVWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. But this life also brings unexpected surprises. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WARFarid, Diana
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARScott, Cavan
Summary: Join Finn, Poe and BB-8 as they journey across the galaxy after the events of The Last Jedi on an important mission for the Resistance in the fourth book of the Star Wars: Choose Your Destiny series. With over twenty possible outcomes, readers will have to think on their feet to keep these Resistance heroes safe from the First Order!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney · Lucasfilm Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWCYDAlexander, Kwame
Summary: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction AlexanderHarris, Chris
Summary: "A witty, illustrated collection of humorous (and sometimes even heartwarming) poems and nonsense inspired by the absurdities of everyday life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 HARWaters, Charles
Summary: "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WATPhillips, Stephanie
Summary: Presents a graphic novelization of R.A. Montgomery's " Forecast from Stonehenge" which asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about crop circles around Stonehenge which may reveal the causes of extreme weather around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2024
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Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014