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Summary: "An anthem for Asian America that celebrates the richness and diversity within the Asian American identity and serves as a reminder of our self worth, our legacy and most of all, our destiny. "--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOAppiah, Anthony
Summary: Kwame Anthony Appiah’s "The Lies That Bind" is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities that define us. It challenges our assumptions about how identities work. We all know there are conflicts between identities, but Appiah shows how identities are created by conflict. Religion, he demonstrates, gains power because it isn’t primarily about belief. Our everyday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.5 APPBennett, Brit
Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BENDiaz, Natalie
Summary: "In When My Brother Was An Aztec, Natalie Diaz examines memory's role in human identity. Each section filters memory through specific individuals and settings. The first concentrates on a diabetic grandmother without legs and the landscape, tangible and intangible, of a Native American reservation. The second engages a brother's strife with drug-use and his unraveling of the family, the home....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 DIAFosberry, Jennifer.
Summary: From breakfast to bedtime, a young girl imagines being different women who made history, and ends the day empowered to be herself. Includes brief biographical information about the women cited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FOSJewell, Tiffany
Summary: What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to learn about? The Antiracist Kid answers your questions about these words (and the big ideas behind them) and give you the tools to practice antiracism in your everday life! This must-have guide explains: IDENTITY: What is is and what it means for you. JUSTICE: What it is, what racism has to do with it, and how to fight injustice....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 JEWGordon-Smith, Eleanor
Summary: What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be. wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realises her husband harbours a terrible secret, Dylan leaves the cult he's been raised in since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Vancouver-based voice actress Ashleigh Ball has brought to life numerous characters from classic cartoons such as Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, and Cinderella, among others. When Ashleigh was hired as the voice of Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash on the fourth generation installment of Hasbro's My Little Pony series, she could never have imagined that the role would turn her into an Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROFièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica)
Summary: "Embrace the color of your skin and celebrate your identity. Finding the courage to live freely and authentically is not easy. This black teen book is designed to help you facilitate your creative drive, promote positive self-awareness, and boost your inner strength. Affirmations for Black teen boys. This black teen book is full of wisdom from Black male trailblazers who accomplished remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.23 FLEMay, Nikki
Summary: When Funke's mother dies in a tragic accident in Lagos, she's sent to live with her maternal family in England. Traumatised by grief and against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, conformist Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them. Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family, resolved to be nothing like them. Fiercely protective of Funke,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Large Print
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Summary: Twenty-five years ago Tom's father, Wilson Taylor, devised his subversive literary masterpiece. Now the blueprint of how a father gave his son vast power in order to accomplish a greater scheme is revealed. Partly told through Wilson's own journal entries, juxtaposed with Tommy's swashbuckling deep sea adventures with his trusty companions Peter and Sue, the story is at once a prequel and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARCarey, Mike
Summary: "Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MENSummary: Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVECarey, Mike
Summary: A mysterious cabal keeps tabs on Tom Taylor when it learns that he might be a real-life boy wizard like the star of Tom's father's famous fantasy book series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARDeutsch, Barry
Summary: After RainWing dragonet Glory discovers that RainWing dragons are disappearing, she realizes that she may have to drag her peaceful dragons into a war, if she is going to find the missing RainWings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC SUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUT (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Scott, Laurence
Summary: Drawing on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and memoir, an existential meditation on personal loss and the role of digital tech in how we find meaning in today's world illuminates the transition into self-defined but vulnerable intangible realities. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 SCOImes, Carmen Joy
Summary: "What does the Old Testament-especially the law-have to do with your Christian life? In this warm, accessible volume, Carmen Joy Imes takes readers back to Sinai, arguing that we've misunderstood the command about "taking the Lord's name in vain." Instead, Imes says that this command is really about "bearing God's name," a theme that continues throughout the rest of Scripture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: InterVarsity Press 2019
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Summary: "Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALLPeach-Pit
Summary: Schoolgirl Amu has 3 secret magical companions. They are searching for a magic egg, a powerful weapon that could mean trouble in the wrong hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHUTamaki, Mariko
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Mandy, who dyes her hair black and hates almost everyone, is not like her mother, the tall, sparkly alien superheo Starfire, so when someone from Starfire's past arrives, Mandy must make a choice about who she is and if she should riskeverything to save her mom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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Summary: "Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUT (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Horowitz, Dave
Summary: A lonely, oddly-shaped pumpkin is sad that no one chose him for Halloween, but by Thanksgiving he has discovered where he belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 0000