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Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone...
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
102 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Counselor Jen takes the Roanoke scouts on a mission to find a jackalope, they end up stumbling on a young cowgirl who's been living in the woods surrounding camp with her herd of unusual critters. In the aftermath of the time shenanigans set off by Jo's Mysterious Time Thingy, the Roanoke scouts are a little bit uneasy on their feet. It's up to Jen to cheer them up and help them get back up and off adventuring again, with a quest to seek out...
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jo, Mal, Molly, April, Ripley and the scouts of Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types are running out of time to fight back against the mysterious force known as the Grey! And even if they succeed, they will have to deal with their biggest challenge yet -- saying goodbye as summer finally comes to an end." --
484) Needlework: a novel
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums....
485) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In tracing the parish boy's progress, Dickens did not write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality, he created a story about the survival of good, and the exploitation of violence.
486) Caul baby: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power. When a deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul falls through, she is heartbroken, but when the child is stillborn, she is overcome with grief and rage....
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jen and Rosie plan to take the Lumberjane scouts to see an amazing astronomical event. But their night of star-gazing is thrown off course when half of the Roanoke and Zodiac cabins sneak away into the night in search of aliens, leaving everyone else to deal with a gatecrashing goddess who throws the entire camp into a tizzy. Not to mention there's a nefarious kitten-napping and a super-secret crush to contend with!"--
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
103 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"DINOSAURS, DANGER & DIMENSION-HOPPING AND ...OH MY! Mal wants to learn to be braver, but when she recruits Ripley to help her face her fears, she ends up somewhere she really should be afraid of--the Land of Lost Things, a pocket universe where dinosaurs still roam the earth, and time doesn't work the way it should. Stranded on her own in an alternate dimension, will Mal be able to find her way back home to camp? And back on the other side of the...
Author
Publisher
City Lights
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
98 p. : 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes that the question whites want to ask him is: "How does it feel to be a problem?" In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that question and to fully acknowledge that in the racial arena, they are the problem.
While some whites would like to think that we have reached "the end of racism" in the United States,...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Revised and expanded.
Physical Desc
167 pages : ilustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This work of nonfiction for middle readers what -- and why -- gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters celebrate on Pride Day every June.
491) Romeo blue
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 'Letter to My Nephew,'...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
252 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being themselves? Being You has the answers! It's an easy-to-read,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
495) Miss representation
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken and armed with a new perspective.
"This...
496) From here: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As hopeful as it is heartrending, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh shares her personal journey to find a place to belong and the many meanings of home for those who must leave theirs."--
497) All you have to do
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early days of French settlement. Marie, an Algonquin woman of the Weskarini Deer Clan, lost her first husband and her children to an Iroquois raid. In the aftermath of another lethal attack, her chief begs her to remarry...
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