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Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film documents a remarkable concert and the politics around it. Boston Mayor Kevin White and his colleagues almost by accident realized that by televising the James Brown concert they could keep people indoors that night and prevent widespread rioting. The film is testimony to the power of music in general and the power of James Brown's music in particular. The film is a tribute to the Godfather of Soul and the role he would come to play in working...
3982) Katherine Johnson
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
3985) Saraí salva la música
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Cuando los recortes en el presupuesto de la escuela amenazan el programa de la banda, Sarai organiza un concierto benéfico para recaudar dinero y gana la atención de su cantante favorito, Sparkles Sánchez.
3986) Beyond Never Land
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Series
Never girls. Finding Tinker Bell volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Description
When Tinker Bell takes Gabby's great-grandfather's model ship, sets sail for Shadow Island, and disappears, it is up to Gabby and the other Never Girls to search for their missing fairy friend.
3987) Sarai en primer plano
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Cuando su mejor amiga se muda de repente, Saraí tiene que arreglárselas sola en la escuela y hacerle frente a las chicas antipáticas en la cafetería. Luego, una nueva estudiante, Cristina, llega a la escuela y la maestra le pide a Saraí que le sirva de guía. Saraí cree que la chica nueva y ella no se parecen en nada. Cristina nunca quiere jugar en el recreo, siempre tiene la cabeza metida en un cuaderno ¡y es muy callada! Pero cuando...
3988) Memory piece
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
390 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves," they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity."--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm.
Description
Los Montoya están acostumbrados a una vida sin explicaciones. Han aprendido a no preguntar por qué la despensa nunca está vacía, o por qué su matriarca nunca abandona su casa en Cuatro Ríos, ni siquiera para las graduaciones, bodas o bautizos. Pero cuando Orquídea Divina los invita a su funeral y a recibir su herencia, todos esperan descubrir los secretos que tan celosamente ha guardado durante toda su vida. Sin embargo, en lugar de...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic novels) volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
134 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy. Jessi's the busiest of all -- she's preparing for her dance...
3991) Last seen in Havana
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
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pages cm.
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"Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
Description
"Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. Other than weekly therapy,...
3993) Shadow of the Batgirl
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
205 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material...yet. Will she step out of the shadows and overcome her greatest obstacle--that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero? Lucky for Cass, she won't have to defy her destiny alone. With the help of her new mentors, noodle shop owner Jackie Fujikawa Yoneyama and a librarian named Barbara Gordon, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning...
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