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1161) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history." --
1162) Speak up!
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
261 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia is just trying to navigate a world that doesn't understand her true autistic self. While she wishes she could stand up to her bullies, she's always been able to express her feelings through singing and songwriting, even more so with her best friend, Charlie, who is nonbinary. Together, they've taken the internet by storm; little do Mia's classmates know that she's the viral singer Elle-Q! But while the chance to perform live for...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man." "Find out what happened to Roy," Casey's grandma implored....
1164) The safest lie
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
A nine-year-old Jewish girl, helped by Irena Sendler and the Zegota organization, is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, given a new identity, and sent to live in the countryside for the duration of the World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvi, 218 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Fresh Off the Boat was Huang's story of growing up in his wild family as a first-generation Chinese-American in the comically hostile world of suburban America; a rejection of the typical narrative of assimilation, it was a rallying cry for cultural integrity. But as he entered adulthood (of sorts) he began to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really was, a dilemma that grew more acute as he contemplated proposing marriage to his all-American...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
22 CDs (25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Just one look: A seemingly innocuous twenty-year-old photograph turns Grace Lawson's peaceful life upside down when her husband, Jack, mysteriously vanishes with the photograph and unanswered questions threaten her marriage and everything she knows.
The woods: Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever....
1168) A-Okay
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
When Jay starts eighth grade with a few pimples he doesn't think much of it at first...except to wonder if the embarrassing acne will disappear as quickly as it arrived. But when his acne goes from bad to worse, Jay's prescribed a powerful medication that comes with some serious side effects. Regardless, he's convinced it'll all be worth it if clear skin is on the horizon! Meanwhile, school isn't going exactly as planned. All of Jay's friends are...
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