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The beauty of humanity movement : [Book Club Set] / by Gibb, Camilla,1968-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Vietnamese Americans; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Dissenters;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Girl taking over [graphic novel] : a Lois Lane story / by Kuhn, Sarah(Author),author.; Jovellanos, Arielle,illustrator.; Pecini, Olivia,colourist.; Ujimori, Melanie,letterer.;
"Ambitious aspiring journalist Lois Lane is fresh out of high school and ready to tackle a summer in the city with gusto, but a cavalcade of setbacks-including an annoying frenemy roommate, a beyond-tedious internship at a suddenly corporatized website, and a boss who demotes her to coffee-fetching minion-threatens to derail her extremely detailed life plan. And, you know, her entire future!!! When Lois uncovers a potentially explosive scandal, she must stand up and speak out for the future she deserves without destroying everything she's worked so hard to create. From beloved writer Sarah Kuhn (Shadow of the Batgirl, Heroine Complex), with expressive art by Arielle Jovellanos (Black Star) and vibrant colors from Olivia Pecini (Tuca & Bertie), comes a charming YA story about the strength it takes to embrace the messiness of life."--013-017.Grades 7-9.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Lane, Lois (Fictitious character); Asian American women; Friendship; Reporters and reporting; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nine shiny objects : a novel / by Castleberry, Brian,author.;
"A stunning literary saga in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the unexpectedly and eerily intersecting lives of a lineage of American dreamers"--
Subjects: Communal living; Interpersonal relations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last great road bum / by Tobar, Héctor,1963-author.;
"In The last great road bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois who died fighting with guerillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times"--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Travelers; Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Where the deer and the antelope play [sound recording] : the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside / by Offerman, Nick,1970-author,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Audiobooks.; Travel writing.; Offerman, Nick, 1970-; National parks and reserves; Outdoor life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The only good Indians : a novel / by Jones, Stephen Graham,1972-author.;
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Prisoner : my 544 days in an Iranian prison--solitary confinement, a sham trial, high-stakes diplomacy, and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out / by Rezaian, Jason,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Rezaian, Jason; Journalists; Political prisoners; Americans; Iranian Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sex and vanity : a novel / by Kwan, Kevin,author.;
"The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Asian Americans; Rich people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Alone at dawn : Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the untold story of the world's deadliest special operations force / by Schilling, Dan,author.; Longfritz, Lori Chapman,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Chapman, John Allan, 1965-2002.; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; Afghan War, 2001-; Takur Ghar, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2002.; Special forces (Military science);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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American radical : inside the world of an undercover Muslim FBI agent / by Elnoury, Tamer,author.; Maurer, Kevin,author.;
It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and devastating a way possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time: Listen, record, and prove terrorist intent --
Subjects: Elnoury, Tamer.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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