Bird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRBird, Kai
Summary: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY CARHarris, Kai
Summary: "What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: "A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world-and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching color"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535.6 KUPShappley, Kai
Summary: Joy, a twelve-year-old trans girl, just moved to Texas with her mother and older brother. Her family has accepted Joy as the girl she is early in her transition, with little fuss, leaving Joy to explore her love of sports, competition, teamwork, school spirit, and worship. But when she is told she's off the cheerleading team, Joy wants to fight for her right to cheer. As her battle with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHAWinding, Kai.
Contents: This could be the start of something big / Steve Allen (3:09) -- Georgia on my mind / Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell (3:48) -- Blue Monk / Thelonious Monk (4:28) -- Judy / J.J. Johnson (4:03) -- Alone together / Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz (3:33) -- Side by side / Harry Woods (3:02) -- I concentrate on you / Cole Porter (4:00) -- Theme from Picnic / George Duning (4:01) -- Trixie / J.J....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JOHBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRBird, Kai.
Summary: Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMES, ROBERT BIRStrittmatter, Kai
Summary: Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter­net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4482 STRHarris, Kai
Summary: "A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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Summary: "A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HAR (Peninsula Book Club Kit 8 paperbacks)Thomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThom, Kai Cheng
Summary: A young child magically transforms into different animal guises as their mother reassures them of her love, but when they get to school, their classmates are not as accepting of the child's fluid identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THODotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "In the Wonder House, each room is filled with poems and objects to inspire... The rooms in this house are a road map for finding wonder--twelve rooms in all, housing twenty-nine poems and wondrous images."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DOTDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "A rhyming picture-book introduction to math for the very young, with visual depictions of everyday STEM applications."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 510 DOTDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: Two polar bear friends go on exciting, imaginative adventures and support each other when things get scary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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Summary: Today is the big dino party, and Digger and Dadasaur take a ride into town to get a cake, but before long, they end up getting lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DOTDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: Fast and colorful race cars reinforce the concept of counting from one through ten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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Contents: Blue Lou -- The party's over -- The preacher -- Surrey with the fringe on top -- Jive at five -- Molehill -- There will never be another you -- Jim and Andy's -- In a sentimental mood -- The blues -- I want to be happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Status Compact Discs 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WINLee, Kai-Fu
Summary: "In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years? AI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.3 LEEDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "Digger wants to play baseball with his friends. But he isn't allowed to go out until he's cleaned his room. Digger starts cleaning at top speed, but the faster he moves the messier his room gets. His big tail and big feet aren't helping! Will Digger win the race to tidy his room and get to the game on time?"--Publisher's statement on Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DOTHinton, Elizabeth Kai
Summary: Drawing on new sources, a leading scholar presents a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights moment without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 HINKai, Hyojun Romaji.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle 2004
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA FOREIGN JAPThom, Kai Cheng
Summary: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is a coming-of-age story about a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents' abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who make their home in a mysterious pleasure district...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metonymy Press 2019