Higashimura, Akiko
Summary: "High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She's in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn't care about manga one bit. But maybe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLASummary: The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hendrickson Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNChadburn, Melissa
Summary: "A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAClark-Robinson, Monica
Summary: "A stunning love letter to the important women who shape us -- from our own mothers and grandmothers to the legends who paved the way for girls and women everywhere"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLAElliott, David
Summary: "David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 944 ELLEsposito, Nick
Summary: "Determined to better the world by inspiring boys like themselves, Lucky, Rudy, and Red team up to form the Good Guys Agency. It's not long before trouble at Fort Crumble next door sends the trio on their first back-in-time mission to visit Fred Rogers, the beloved television host. Will Fred get his show? Can they find the kindness needed to avert disaster at Fort Crumble? And will Red finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bushel & Peck Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ESPFortey, Jacqueline.
Summary: Full-color illustrations and photographs introduce readers to the great scientists and their discoveries from ancient history to modern times. Includes clip-art CD-ROM and wall chart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509.22 FORFredericks, Mariah
Summary: "New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FREGarcia Marquez, Gabriel
Summary: A special edition of Garcia Marquez's classic tale of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town as mirrored in the family history of the Buendías features essays, a genealogical chart, and a glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Real Academia Española 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 MarGendry-Kim, Keum Suk
Summary: "The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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Summary: Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GIBGirard, Anne.
Summary: "When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Girard 2014Green, Jane
Summary: "Claire grew up in a small town, far from the glamor of London. On the cusp of adulthood, she yearns for the adventure and independence of a counterculture taking root across the world. When she's offered the chance to start anew in Morocco, in a palace where famous artists and musicians have been known to visit, she seizes the chance. Arriving in Marrakesh, she's quickly swept up in a world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREHolman, Sheri.
Summary: In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLHugo, Victor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Airmont Pub. Co. 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGJames, Henry
Contents: The real thing -- The figure in the carpet -- The turn of the screw -- The tree of knowledge -- Maud-Evelyn -- The beast in the jungle -- The jolly corner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Konemann 1969
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JamesKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A brief biography of puppeteer and creator of the muppets, Jim Henson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HENSON KRUKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotaa, Columbia, young Josae eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Josae Alberto Gutiaerrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiaerrez's life and Bogotaa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUTMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction McCully 2011Miller, Jax
Summary: "The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MILMiller, Sarah Elizabeth
Summary: In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2017Morris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023