Summary: Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother. Billie has to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico. They meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents' watchful eye. They discover freedom and enchantment among the boats and railway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: Children are invited to explore their toes by playing "This Little Piggy."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOAD ASIAsim, Jabari
Summary: John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Asim 2017Asim, Jabari
Summary: Complemented by black-and-white photos, a young readers' adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by the late civil rights activist recounts her upbringing in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and her fight for equality and justice in America's military environments,churches and courtrooms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROUAsim, Jabari
Summary: A baby discovers all the things she loves about Valentine's Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD ASIAsim, Jabari
Summary: A biography of the former slave and inspiring educator describes the hardships he overcame in youth, the circumstances that challenged his efforts to learn how to read, and his triumphant pursuit of a college education.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB WASHINGTON ASIAsim, Jabari
Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 WatkiAsim, Jabari
Summary: John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PREAsim, Jabari
Summary: Takes a loving look at knees from the vantage point of a mother's lap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ASISummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from William's mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain struck during the war. William must return to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatkins, Sara
Contents: Young in all the wrong ways -- The love that got away -- One last time -- Move me -- Like New Year's Day -- Say so -- Without a word -- The truth won't set us free -- Invisible -- Tenderhearted.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WAT COUNTRYWatkins, Steve
Summary: "Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement of his family's junk shop again. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson discovers an old grenade with a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous ... especially when the ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WATWatkins, Doug.
Contents: One guy (6:17) -- Confessin' (that I love you) (6:47) -- Soulnik (5:44) -- Andre's bag (6:58) -- I remember you (5:35) -- Imagination (6:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige/New Jazz 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WatkiWatkins, Jen
Summary: Annabelle Granger has always made good decisions. That’s why she quit oil painting in college to become a robotics engineer. That’s why she married Dr. Paul Granger, management consultant, her supportive modern mate. Together with their five-year-old son, Heath, they are living the suburban dream. But Annabelle fears her sensible life lacks originality. Will she ever make her mark?Following a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Etheridge Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWatkins, Michael
Summary: "Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy. For every good leader who has mastered of one of these disciplines is a great leader who knows and has mastered all of them. Michael D. Watkins, an expert on leadership transitions and organizational success, returns to the page with a new how-to guide for the modern leader. Here,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business 2024
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Summary: On his first day at his new school Jake Jones meets the new teacher, Mr. Hyde (very nice, but turns into a naughty imp when upset), Mrs. Blount, the principal (a nasty tyrant whose punishments involve hard labor), and his wild classmates in 5B--and since it is almost impossible not to break at least one of the 142 school rules (or all of them) he soon finds his school life descending into chaos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATWatkins, Steve
Summary: "Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie have been doing everything they can to avoid the battered trunk full of old military things in the basement of his family's junk shop. Only, staying away seems impossible, and this time Anderson discovers a dusty World War II medic's bag inside the trunk. But who does it belong to?"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WATWatkins, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1990
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 WATCalkins, Susanna
Summary: Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father, and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. It's a glamorous world of sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room, a flirtatious jazz pianist and a brooding photographer-- all overseen by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALDawkins, Curtis
Summary: "In this stunning debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence. In Curtis Dawkins's first short story collection, he offers a window into prison life through the eyes of his narrators...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "Lucy Campion, a ladies' maid turned printer's apprentice in 17th-century London, is crossing Holborn Bridge over the most vile portion of the River Fleet one morning when she encounters a distraught young woman, barely able to speak and clad only in a blood-spattered nightdress. The woman has no memory of who she is or what's happened to her, and the townspeople believe she's possessed. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016