Williams, Fiona
Summary: "Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: It's time / Marvin Winans ... [et al.] (the Winans) -- Jesus is my help / Melvin Crispell (Hezekiah Walker & the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir) -- Worthy / Debbie Winans, Tommy Greer (Helen Baylor) -- I believe / James Harris III ... [et al.] (Sounds of Blackness) -- Cry on / Parks Stewart, Mitchell Jones (Commissioned) -- The call / Denise Walls ... [et al.] (Anointed) -- Heaven / Keith...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1999
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS BILCall number: CD RELIGIOUS BILL
Aronowitz, Nona Willis
Summary: The Confidence Code for Girls meets The Care & Keeping of You in this bold, bighearted book about growing up with unshakable confidence. Puberty comes with a lot of changes for girls today. There's the thrilling stuff: making friends, discovering their superpowers, and finding their voices. Then there are the not-so-fun parts: body changes, school stress, and totally understandable social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.23 AROSummary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDUContents: Disc 1: Magnificent obession / Steven Curtis Chapman -- Above all (studio version) / Michael W. Smith -- Say a prayer / CeCe Winans -- You will never walk alone / Point of Grace -- Talk about it / Nicole C. Mullen -- Open up the sky / FFH -- I have been there / Mark Schultz -- Who you are / Caedmon's Call -- It is well with my soul / The river's gonna keep on rolling / Amy Grant -- Holy /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Christian/Provident Music/Sparrow Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOWChristian, Charlie
Contents: Rose room / A. Hickman, H. Williams (2:45) -- Seven come eleven / B. Goodman, C. Christian (2:44) -- Till Tom special / B. Goodman, L. Hampton (2:59) -- Gone with "what" wind / C. Basie, B. Goodman (3:13) -- Grand slam / B. Goodman (2:49) -- Six appeal / B. Goodman (3:18) -- Wholly cats / B. Goodman (2:59) -- Royal Garden blues / C. Williams, S. Williams (3:00) -- As long as I live / H. Arlen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1987
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CHRWillis, Ellen.
Contents: Before the flood. Dylan (from Cheetah, 1967) -- The world-class critic. Two soul albums (November 1968) ; The Who sell (July 1969) ; Songs of innocence and experience (February 1970) ; New morning : Dylan revisited (December 1970) ; Breaking the vinyl barrier (July 1971) ; Morrison live (June 1972) ; Elvis Presley? In person? (July 1972) ; Bowie's limitations (October 1972) ; Frankenstein at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 WILSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACLaDuke, Winona.
Summary: "An overview of efforts by Native Americans to regain cultural and genetic patrimony and the conditions needed for traditional spiritual practices, including tribal histories, analysis of changes to nutrition, economy, and physical environment, and actions taken toward pollution abatement, dam removal, land and cultural reclamation, and alternative energy production"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: South End Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 LADSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUContents: I love it (Icona Pop, feat. Charli Xcx) -- Mirrors (Justin Timberlake) -- #Beautiful (Mariah Carey, with Miguel) -- Come & get it (Selena Gomez) -- Radioactive (Imagine Dragons) -- When I was your man (Bruno Mars) -- Beneath your beautiful (Labrinth, with Emeli Sande) -- Clarity (Zedd, with Foxes) -- I need your love (Calvin Harris, with Ellie Goulding) -- The other side (Jason Derulo) -- Crazy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Now47Summary: Professor Albus Dumbledore must assign Newt Scammander and his fellow partners as Grindelwald begins to lead an army to eliminate all Muggles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Crime/comedy thriller featuring Nick Charles, private eye, and his wife Nora. The plot unfolds at Christmas when an eccentric inventor disappears after threatening his mistress with a lawsuit for embezzlement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THILaDuke, Winona
Summary: "Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.2 LADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.2 LADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.2 LAD1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 333.2 LAD
LaDuke, Winona
Summary: "Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years -- sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. For this book, Winona discusses several elements of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fernwood Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 LADLaDuke, Winona.
Summary: A novel on the Anishinaabe Indians, tracing their struggle to restore their culture and regain their land. From the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s, to the 1970s occupation by Indian militants of the Minnesota White Earth Reservation, to the present problems of alcoholism and sexual abuse. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LADMartin, Jerome
Summary: Do fish wear pyjamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster - a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these and many more questions in a book that explores the history, science, environment and art of our planet's seas and oceans. Richly illustrated and perfect for broadening children's knowledge of an essential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Nature MartinWalliams, David
Summary: Twelve year old Jack's grandpa lives in a rest home and often mistakes Jack for his World War II squadron commander, but when grandpa wants to escape his boring situation, Jack has to decide how he will help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALSummary: Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: Blu3D Fam PolarWalliams, David
Summary: This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010