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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 22
Description
The old adage says that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else -- sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world? In this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who...
882) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay, Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears reality apart. These are just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA + experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride.
885) The nemesis
Author
Series
Diabolic trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"In the final book in the Diabolic trilogy, Nemesis must choose between love and justice as she watches her once-idealistic husband ravage the galaxy through his tyrannical rule."--
886) The deep & dark blue
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and themselves, they begin to hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their royal home. While Hawke wants to return to his old...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022, 2021.
Description
""I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too." Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow and bestselling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines--whether it's the twenty-seven seconds...
888) Return of the Jedi
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Using handcrafted felt puppets, the authors recreate, in staged scenes and twelve words, the final chapter of the original trilogy, as Luke and Leia rescue Han, the rebel forces attack the second Death Star, and Luke confronts his heritage.
889) Lumber-Jackula
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"And Jack has a secret: what he really wants to do is dance. When he finds out about Tip Tap Twinkle Toes Dance Academy from new friend Plenty, Jack feels he's finally found the place where he can be his true self. But he's too afraid of disappointing his family to tell them. What's a half-lumberjack, half-vampire boy to do? To summon the confidence to pursue his dreams, Jack will have to embrace every part of himself -- his lumberjack toughness,...
891) Love times infinity
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
Michie has been estranged from her mother since she was seven, and her concept of family has long felt murky. Now a high school junior, she is struggling with her scholarship essays, trying at making it into Brown as a first-generation...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between filial duty and her desires.
894) Sword in the stars
Author
Series
Once and future volume 2
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In this epic sequel to Once & Future, Ari and her Rainbow knights must pull off a Holy Grail heist thousands of years in the past -- without destroying their own destinies. Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun. Ari and her cursed wizard Merlin must travel back in time to the unenlightened Middle Ages and steal the King Arthur's Grail -- the very definition of impossible. It's...
895) Queen's hope
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Padmé is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padmé gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padmé on a secret mission, her handmaiden Sabé steps into the role...
Author
Publisher
DW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"What is a woman? But all of a sudden, way too many people don't seem to know the answer. Is a woman a woman just by feeling or acting a particular way? Aren't gender roles just a "social construct"? Can a woman be "trapped in a man's body"? Does being a woman mean anything at all? We used to think being a woman had something to do with biology, but the nation's top experts keep assuring us that is definitely not the case. So Matt decided to do what...
897) My powerful hair
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mom never had long hair—she was told it was too wild. Nokomis couldn’t have long hair—hers was taken from her. But one young girl can’t wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her."
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Dude, where's my car?: Two bumbling stoners wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car, which prompts them to go on a journey to find it.
Pineapple express: Dale is a constantly stoned court clerk who finds himself on the run with his dealer after he witnesses the murder of a drug lord and leaves a rare form of...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will 'grow into' as they get older, but when they leave school, start working, and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don't want to have sex with other people. In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themself into relationships...
900) Being thunder
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Profiles a two-spirit genderqueer Narragansett teenager from Rhode Island who competes in traditional dance at regional powwows.
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