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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANBowen, Lila
Summary: "The sequel to Conspiracy of Ravens and third novel in Lila Bowen's widely-acclaimed Shadow series. The Ranger known as Rhett has shut down a terrible enterprise running on the blood of magical folk, but failed to catch the dark alchemist behind it. And now the Shadow refuses to let him rest. Rhett must make the ultimate transformation if he has any hope of stopping the alchemist or fulfilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWGuzmán, Lila
Summary: Examines the life and career of this talented Latino woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KAHLO GuzHan, Lila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiawassee County Historical Society 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.425 ECHBowen, Lila
Summary: "Rhett Walker is looking for peace, the memories of all he's lost haunting his dreams. And now the Shadow tugs him West, back to where his journey began. With the lawless Rangers on his heels and monster attacks surging, Rhett is surrounded on all sides. This time it's not all about horses and land. This time, it feels personal. Because the newest monster on the horizon just may be wearing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWRiesen, Lila
Summary: "Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIEDowns, Lila
Contents: Humito de copal -- Mano negra -- Balas y chocolate -- Una cruz de madera -- La farsante (with Juan Gabriel) -- La burra -- Cuando me tocas tú -- La patria madrina (with Juanes) -- Las casas de madera -- La promesa -- Son de difuntos -- Dulce veneno -- Viene la muerte echando rasero.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DOWDowns, Lila.
Contents: Simuna -- Nueve viento -- Arenita azul -- La iguana -- Yunu yucu ninu -- Xquenda -- Nueve hierba -- Tres pedernal -- Luna -- Semilla de piedra -- Arbol de la vida -- Icnocuicatl -- Uno muerte.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Narada 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DOWGuzman, Lila
Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the painter who used his murals to teach about Mexico's history and heroes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB RIVERA GUZNordstrom, Lila
Summary: "On September 11, 2001, high school senior Lila Nordstrom watched from her classroom's window as the Twin Towers, mere blocks away, fell. Weeks later, at the urging of local officials and assurance from the EPA, Lila and her three thousand classmates were returned to their school-- even though the air was thick with toxic debris, dust, and smoke. In this remarkable, empowering memoir, Lila...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 NORDowns, Lila.
Contents: Viborita -- Dignificada -- Cielo Rojo -- La bamba -- One blood -- Malinche -- Tirineni tsïtsïki -- La cucaracha -- Mother Jones -- Paloma negra -- Brown paper people -- Una sangre -- Yanahuari nïn.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Narada 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DOWGuzmán, Lila
Summary: Describes the life of Ellen Ochoa and her drive to become an astronaut and travel into outerspace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB OCHOA GUZPERL, LILA
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1973
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Summary: A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about love and compassion, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVBowen, Lila.
Summary: "A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWGuzmán, Lila
Contents: Life in Puerto Rico -- Arriba! let's go -- Roberto helps the Pirates -- 1971 World Series -- Earthquake -- Timeline -- Words to know -- Learn more about Roberto Clemente (books and internet addresses) -- Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLEMENTE GuzPerl, Lila
Summary: Over the course of human history, torture has been used as an instrument of war, a means of extracting information, and a mode of punishment. Many argue that it is a necessary weapon in times of war. Others insist that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, violates human rights laws, and fails to extract trustworthy information. This book dives into the debate over torture from all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.6 MCCPerl, Lila.
Summary: Examines the diets and culinary innovations of the American colonists and gives thirteen colonial recipes, including succotash, snickerdoodles, and spoon bread.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seabury Press 1975
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 641.5 PERBila, Vera.
Contents: Chirikloro mirikloro -- Pas o panori -- Ma dza nikhaj -- Chaje, chaje -- Baro d'ives -- Baron romane chTavore -- Na kamav -- Rat'aha me peske phirav -- Pandzdzenore -- So me kerava -- Helena -- Te me pijav laches rosnes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BILVolz, Alia
Summary: "During the 70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Each was devoted to the occult, and they regularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020