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19021) Relational constellation
Series
Sovereign traces volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Through the works of North American Indigenous writers and illustrators, Sovereign Traces, Volume 2: Relational Constellation provides a unique opportunity for audiences to hear from a myriad of American Indian and First Nations voices on the meaning of love. Here readers will find works of graphic literature, including both poetry and fiction, that explore how celestial bodies build and share creative intimacies. Through this exciting medium, Sovereign...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
19024) Abbott
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband...
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Penny Arcade volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Collects all the comic strips published on the Penny Arcade websiteduring the year 2003, which poke fun at current video games, gamers,the gaming industry and gaming culture in general.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl's path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal...
19027) The silence of our friends
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
Series
Hailey Dean Mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Description
2+2=Murder: Hailey attends her niece's school recital only to learn that the beloved music teacher has vanished. -- A marriage made for murder: Hailey's professional code of ethics prevents her from going to the police about a client's confession, so she must find another way to bring the killer to justice -- A will to kill: Emotionally ready to confront her fiance's 15-year-old murder, Hailey finds herself caught up in the case of a missing college...
19031) The adventures of Blanche
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
"...Chronicles the extraordinary adventures of an equally extraordinary woman of the early twentieth century in The Adventures of Blanche! Blanche begins her journey with a refined piano professor in New York, but soon finds herself entangled with a brazen portrait painter, subterranean societies, and shocking secrets behind the New York subway system. From there, she's off to Hollywood, where her stirring talents bring to light the labor movement's...
19032) Friends forever: Volume 9
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Celebrate the magic of friendship in these stand-alone tales featuring team-ups between all of your favorite characters! Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich get trapped in a magical house that loves to party! But will it ever let them leave? Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer tidy up the library in the Castle of the Two Sisters and a friendly activity soon turns into a magic-based battle of egos. Rainbow Dash travels to a remote and dangerous location...
19034) Silk
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Series
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"By day Cindy Moon is an intrepid reporter for the upstart new media empire Threats & Menaces, under her old boss J. Jonah Jameson. By night she's Silk, crime-fighting super hero! But Cindy's worlds are about to collide when her latest investigation puts Silk and everyone she loves in danger! Someone is killing gangsters in Queens, leaving behind a trail of blood and...fur? Who is this powerful new player in New York's underworld? Where did she come...
Pub. Date
2021.
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Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, an historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.
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Pub. Date
©1985
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CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
CSL - Books by or about Persons with Disabilities
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads
Description
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
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Series
Penny Arcade volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Collects all the comic strips published on the Penny Arcade website during the year 2002, which poke fun at current video games, gamers, the gaming industry and gaming culture in general.