Nordstrom, Lila
Summary: "On September 11, 2001, high school senior Lila Nordstrom watched from her classroom's window as the Twin Towers, mere blocks away, fell. Weeks later, at the urging of local officials and assurance from the EPA, Lila and her three thousand classmates were returned to their school-- even though the air was thick with toxic debris, dust, and smoke. In this remarkable, empowering memoir, Lila...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 NORKephart, Beth
Summary: "A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NORYu, Hua
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUSummary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUHua, Vanessa
Summary: "In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUAPink, Tula
Summary: "Make a beautiful, modern quilt of your own design with the 100 original quilt blocks or try one of the 5 city-theme sampler quilts designed by Tula"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 PinkTuma, Scott.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Truckstop 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TUMHua, Vanessa
Summary: "A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUAObreht, Téa.
Summary: In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OBRTjipombo, Tupa
Summary: "I Am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TJIPOMBO, TUPA TJITusa, Tricia
Summary: Saturdays are dress-up days when Eleanor Sue climbs out the window ... tiptoes over to the front door ... and rings the doorbell. When her mother answers, she doesn't see Eleanor Sue. She sees a cranky old neighbor. Or a hungry witch. Or a white-bearded wizard. Eleanor Sue is a master of disguise, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD JE Fiction Tusa 2019Lipa, Dua
Contents: End of an era -- Houdini -- Training season -- These alls -- Whatcha doing -- French exit -- Illusion -- Falling forever -- Anything for love -- Maria -- Happy for you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2024
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WETSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSLipa, Dua
Contents: Future nostalgia -- Don't start now -- Cool -- Physical -- Levitating -- Pretty please -- Hallucinate -- Love again -- Break my heart -- Good in bed -- Boys will be boys -- Fever -- We're good -- Prisoner / (with Miley Cyrus) -- If it ain't me -- That kind of woman -- Not my problem / (featuring JID) -- Levitating (remix) / (featuring DaBaby) -- Un dia / featuring J. Balvin, Bad Bunny & Tainy).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Pink, Tula.
Summary: Features quilt designs that move beyond simple squares and rectangles and all feature Tula Pink's amazing fabrics. This title includes 10 quilts all accompanied by fun accessories, varying from eye masks and body pillows to storage bags and curtains. It helps you learn how to choose and combine fabric, and use the colorwheel to its full advantage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 746.46 PINFernstrom, Madelyn H.
Summary: "Fernstrom provides an easy to use guide for anyone taking a medication--short term or long term--and foods to avoid that can interfere with the action of the medication. Small diet changes with big health payoffs! An added bonus in each chapter is a "Dietary Supplements Alert" box, providing the most up to date information on interactions with vitamins, minerals and other dietary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 FERFernstrom, Madelyn H.
Summary: "NBC Today show nutrition and diet guru Madelyn Fernstrom and award-winning neuroscientist and pharmacologist John Fernstrom -partnering with AARP- present the ultimate guide to food and medicine interaction. Millions of Americans take prescription drugs to treat diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, or other conditions. But beware: The foods you eat and the medications you take could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 FERSummary: The soundtrack to the highly anticipated movie features an all-star musical lineup including Tame Impala, Haim, Charli XCX, the Kid LAROI, and Dua Lipa, who stars among the film's supporting cast. Produced by Mark Ronson.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BARObreht, Téa
Summary: "In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parchedhousehold, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Obreht 2019Obreht, Téa
Summary: After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC OBRObreht, Téa.
Summary: Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Obreht 2011Tuma, Refe
Summary: "Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022