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1) There there
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Series
Not quite narwhal and friends volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
Author
Series
I am Margaret volume 1
Publisher
Unseen
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Margo's world, if you don't pass your Sorting at 18 you are recycled. Literally. Margaret Verrall dreams of marrying the boy she loves and spending her life with him. But she's part of the underground network of Believers--and that carries the death penalty. And there's just one other problem. She's going to fail her Sorting. But a chance to take on the system ups the stakes beyond mere survival. Now she has to break out of the Facility--or face...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods. Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Lies That Bind is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities...
5) Chouette
Author
Language
English
Description
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette's behaviors grow...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
Author
Publisher
Luminous Epinoia Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
This is "a manual for students along a spiritual journey. It is not a workbook, but does contain practical suggestions for change if that is what you need. It also contains philosophies or understandings that may stretch the mind to be able to perceive your own illusions."--Author's website.
10) Return to Seoul
Publisher
Aurora Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The compelling and unpredictable film from director Davy Chou (Diamond Island). Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
Series
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Karla, a famous actress and singer, decides to take a break from show business after her concert in the town of Zacatillo. Karla's manager, Miriam, who has been exploiting her fortune for years, decides to have Karla killed for fear that she will find out about her embezzlement scam. Karla manages to survive the botched murder attempt but everyone thinks she is dead. She assumes a new identity and takes refuge in Zacatillo, where she once found love...
12) Mem: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete. The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source -- zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract...
13) Little
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jordan is a take-no-prisoners mogul who torments her long-suffering assistant and employees daily. She soon faces an unexpected threat to her personal life and career when she magically transforms into a thirteen-year-old version of herself after the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A magical debut about an enchanted house that offers refuge to women in their time of need Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. With nothing...
15) Snakeskins
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Caitlin Hext's first shedding ceremony is imminent, but she's far from prepared to produce a Snakeskin clone. When her Skin fails to turn to dust as expected, she must decide whether she wishes the newcomer alive or dead. Worse still, it transpires that the Hext family may be of central importance to the survival of Charmers, a group of people with the inexplicable power to produce duplicates every seven years and, in the process, rejuvenate. In...
16) Places to be
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates all our wide-ranging emotions?and the adventures that await us each day.
17) Claudia's dream
Author
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One day, Claudia the little elephant finds a lamp, and Mister Genie comes out to grant her a wish..Or is it Ms Genie" -- page 4 of cover.
18) Every body
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary...
19) Why am I me?
Author
Language
English
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Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
20) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
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