Deng, Alephonsion.
Summary: As gunshots, flames, and screams engulfed their village, three cousins fled into the cover of the forest. Every step led the boys away from their peaceful, agrarian world--a traditional world where spear-toting fathers protected their huts from the lions that roamed by night. With each footstep they were drawn deeper into the horrific violence of Sudan's civil war: a world of bombed-out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962.4 DENWong, Jane
Summary: "Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WONPixin, Weng
Summary: "Let's Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin's family, each at age 15. Her lineage is full of breakages -- her great grandmother Kuān is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother Bīng is heartbroken by her father's estrangement. Pixin's own story centers on her feelings of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PIXHerg,̌
Summary: Whether he's trolling the high seas for treasure or blasting off for the moon, young reporter-sleuth Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, have delighted readers everywhere for generations with their timeless adventures. Join Tintin and Snowy as they tackle the toughest mysteries around the world in The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714, and Tintin and the Picaros.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown 1993
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Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 734 BENJudt, Tony
Summary: Offers a narrative of the United States' intellectual history of the past one hundred years by discussing the ideas and thinkers that helped shape the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.092 JUDJudt, Tony.
Summary: It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2010
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Weing, Drew.
Summary: A graphic novel about a big lug and aspiring poet who run up tabs at the local bars by day and haunt the docks by night. When he gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong, he learns firsthand about life on the open seas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WEIJudt, Tony.
Summary: The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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Summary: "Emelyn Rude details the ascendancy of chicken from its domestication nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: After moving to Echo City, Charles finds himself at the mercy of the town's monsters, but lucky for him there is Margo Maloo, monster mediator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEIWenk, Elizabeth
Summary: "The John Muir Trail contains the information you need for hiking or backpacking the route. The comprehensive guide describes the entire passage, with detailed directions as well as UTM coordinates for important junctions, lateral trails, campsites, food-storage boxes, and other points of interest. The book divides the trail into 13 sections, and each section includes an elevation profile and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 JOHN MUIR TRAIL WENMeng, Kaari
Summary: The founder of the French General jewelry store shares beading projects inspired by the changing seasons in France, including one jewelry set for each month that contains a necklace, bracelet, and pair of earrings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.59 MENDuden, Jane.
Summary: Looks at the life of Betsy Ross from her Quaker childhood to her role in the Revolutionary War and her days as an independent businesswoman, examining the legend of the Besty Ross Flag and explaining the importance of its legacy today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sagamore 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 HEALawson, Wenn
Summary: Packed with practical advice, this is the first book to address the challenges facing older people with autism. With first-hand stories and drawing on the latest research, it will help to support older adults with autism through lifestyle changes as well as physical and sensory challenges post-retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85882 LAWJue, Joyce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5959 JUEApatow, Judd
Summary: "Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JUD MW #1Deveraux, Jude.
Summary: When Lillian Manville's life is turned upside down by the death of her husband, she transforms herself and builds a new life and a thriving business, but there remain secrets that could shatter her world anew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVBarrett, Judi
Summary: From the bestselling duo behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs comes the long-awaited sequel to Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, which shows us a hilarious new group of animals that shouldn't, ever ever ever, dress like humans. Everyone knows that snakes and billy goats and walruses should definitely not wear clothing, but there are actually lots more animals that should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Barrett 2018Deng, Achut
Summary: "I want life. For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped apart by the Second Sudanese Civil War. But Achut wanted to do more than merely survive. She wanted to live. The twenty-two-year civil war essentially orphaned over 20,000 children and drove them from their villages in southern Sudan. Some of these children walked over a thousand miles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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Summary: "An empowering and informative picture book biography about Khutulun, the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and how she defied the expectations of her time to become commander of the Khan's army"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022