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Aida, Yu. Dido Fisher, Valorie. Ida Kotb, Hoda Kovály, Heda Lei, Sida Luiselli, Valeria Vida, Nina. Vida, Vendela.Viloria, Hida
Summary: "From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILORIA, HIDA VILSummary: The life of artist Frida Kahlo, from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Contents: Zydeco -- Gator Man -- C'est moi -- Love is the answer -- La bas 2 step -- I-10 express -- Dancing on the bayou -- The rangers waltz -- Hard headed woman -- Lady be mine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GNP Crescendo 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN QUEIda
Contents: Capitaine Gumbo (3:35) -- Grand Basile (2:58) -- Mazuka (2:55) -- La Louisiane (2:58) -- P'tit fille O'Paradis (3:08) -- Madame Ben (2:33) -- Bayou polka (2:56) -- Corps solide (2:29) -- Frisco Zydeco (4:02) -- La vierge (2:57) -- La femme du Doight (3:08) -- Vieux Paris (3:39) -- C'est la vie (4:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICA QUEContents: Careless love / Bessie Smith -- Black eye blues / Ma Rainey -- Goin' crazy with the blues / Mamie Smith -- Me and my chauffeur blues / Memphis Minnie -- See see Rider / Bea Booze -- Freight train blues / Trixie Smith -- Moaning the blues / Victoria Spivey -- You gonna need my help / Sippie Wallace -- Electrician blues / Lizzie Miles -- Last mile blues / Ida Cox -- Unlucky woman / Helen Humes --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quality Audio 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WOMHiga, Susumu
Summary: "A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HIGGaida
Contents: Dream -- Ammar -- Illak shi -- Indulgence -- Kaifa uhibuka -- Salam min dimashq -- Almaya -- Ghayeb -- Bint elbalad
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Palmyra Recordings
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST GAISummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALHilt
Contents: Birdwatcher -- 950 -- Superhoney -- Way out there -- 222 -- El diablo -- Loudmouth canyon -- Home -- 314 -- Sandy feet -- Never gonna fall again -- Walkin on thunder -- Crazy for you -- Real cool rain -- World's goin down -- The ride.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HILHara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARHama
Contents: Terroir -- Houmeissa -- Dounia -- Bororo -- Wassa -- Takamba -- Touareg -- Baoura -- Takamba (remix) -- Yeta yeta.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN HAMSummary: A 25th anniversary celebration of the television program Saturday night live featuring cast members from the past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SATDiva
Summary: L.A.'s sci-fi priestess is a unique talent. Los Angeles is a trip. And currently the music emanating from this West Coast dreamland are spinning heads like no others. Diva Dompe is central to this L.A. renaissance, having founded the fabulously costumed trio BlackBlack with her sister Lola; thrown down sinewy bass grooves as a member of the sadly missed Pocahaunted and grown into a key member...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Critical Heights 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIVDido.
Summary: "...[DIDO has] crafted a set of elegantly rockin' romantic yearners...swelling-stringed emoters...[that] create a lovely sonic intamacy." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly 6/4/99, p.86-7.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIDLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights thecontradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 LUIVida, Vendela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDVida, Nina.
Summary: Joseph Kimmel is heading to San Antonio to settle his deceased brother's estate but becomes stranded on the vast open prairie when his horse is stolen. He is rescued by an egocentric Alsatian immigrant, but falls back into trouble when he marries a young blond girl. Running for their lives, Joseph and his new bride head to the hill country, where they hope to build a cattle ranch....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDVida, Vendela.
Summary: After being robbed of her wallet and passport while on a mysterious trip to Morocco, a woman feels a strange freedom of being stripped of her identity and soon begins pretending to be a well-known film star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDKotb, Hoda
Summary: Shares the inspirational stories of six individuals who persevered in the face of devastating life challenges, from a woman who became a health advocate after losing 340 pounds to a civilian hero who saved a burn victim on September 11th only to discoverthat two family members had died in the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.24 KOTKovály, Heda
Summary: "In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOVLei, Sida
Summary: I was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came and robbed me. First, they took my home, driving us out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took my family members. They tried to take me too. They tried to starve me, to wear me down with disease, to catch me stealing so that they could execute me. They tried to work me to death. But every time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sida Lei 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEI, SIDA LEIVida, Vendela.
Summary: Yvonne, a recently widowed mother of two grown children, returns to Datça, Turkey, to relive memories of a happier time, but instead is troubled by her past and finds solace in her friendship with Ahmet, a young local boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDAida, Yu.
Summary: When new children are brought into the Social Welfare Agency, their minds are wiped and their bodies enhanced with the latest in cutting edge cybernetics. They are blank slates ready to be molded and conditioned as their handlers see fit. Yet for Angelica, the first of the Agency's cyborg assassins, memories of the life she once knew have started to return. Dreams of her childhood fills her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNDido
Contents: No freedom -- Girl who got away -- Let us move on (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -- Blackbird -- End of night -- Sitting on the roof of the world -- Love to blame -- Go dreaming -- Happy New Year -- Loveless hearts -- Day before we went to war.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2013