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Kaleidoscope : a novel / by Wong, Cecily,author.;
"A dazzling and heartfelt novel about the disorientation of grief, the hollowness of the American Dream, and the bravery of rebuilding one's identity, as the remaining daughter of a self-made Chinese-American dynasty sets off across the world to define herself in the wake of her beloved sister's death"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Bereavement; Chinese American families; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Berry Pickers A Novel [electronic resource] : by Peters, Amanda.aut; cloudLibrary;
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE WINNER of the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL for EXCELLENCE in FICTION FINALIST Amazon First Novel Award FINALIST for the Atwood-Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize FINALIST Best First Novel, Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence FINALIST Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction FINALIST Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction FINALIST Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award FINALIST OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years  July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, is seen sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a field before mysteriously vanishing. Her six-year-old brother, Joe, who was the last person to see Ruthie, is devastated by his sister’s disappearance, and her loss ripples through his life for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as an only child in an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, while her mother is overprotective of Norma, who is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem to be too real to be her imagination. As she grows older, Norma senses there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she pursues her family’s secret for decades. A stunning debut novel, The Berry Pickers is a riveting story about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Native American & Aboriginal; Family Life;
© 2023., HarperCollins Canada,
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real ones a novel [electronic resource] : by vermette, katherena.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity. June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones. Lyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Métis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, and their faithful pup, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she imagined she’d end up: back home in Winnipeg with her family. But then into lyn and June’s busy lives a bomb drops: their estranged and very white mother, Renee, is called out as a “pretendian.” Under the name (get this) Raven Bearclaw, Renee had topped the charts in the Canadian art world for winning awards and recognition for her Indigenous-style work. The news is quickly picked up by the media and sparks an enraged online backlash. As the sisters are pulled into the painful tangle of lies their mother has told and the hurt she has caused, searing memories from their unresolved childhood trauma, which still manages to spill into their well curated adult worlds, come rippling to the surface. In prose so powerful it could strike a match, real ones is written with the same signature wit and heart on display in The Break, The Strangers and The Circle. An energetic, probing and ultimately hopeful story, real ones pays homage to the long-fought, hard-won battles of Michif (Métis) people to regain ownership of their identity and the right to say who is and isn’t Métis.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Native American & Aboriginal; Literary; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Penguin Canada,
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real ones a novel [electronic resource] : by vermette, katherena.aut; vermette, katherena.nrt; Tailfeathers, Elle-Máijá.nrt; McCarthy, Sheila.nrt; Nepinak, Tracey.nrt; Stull, Caleb.nrt; cloudLibrary;
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity. June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones. Lyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Métis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, and their faithful pup, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she imagined she’d end up: back home in Winnipeg with her family. But then into lyn and June’s busy lives a bomb drops: their estranged and very white mother, Renee, is called out as a “pretendian.” Under the name (get this) Raven Bearclaw, Renee had topped the charts in the Canadian art world for winning awards and recognition for her Indigenous-style work. The news is quickly picked up by the media and sparks an enraged online backlash. As the sisters are pulled into the painful tangle of lies their mother has told and the hurt she has caused, searing memories from their unresolved childhood trauma, which still manages to spill into their well curated adult worlds, come rippling to the surface. In prose so powerful it could strike a match, real ones is written with the same signature wit and heart on display in The Break, The Strangers and The Circle. An energetic, probing and ultimately hopeful story, real ones pays homage to the long-fought, hard-won battles of Michif (Métis) people to regain ownership of their identity and the right to say who is and isn’t Métis.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Native American & Aboriginal; Literary; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Penguin Random House,
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A quiet passion [videorecording] / by Bailey, Catherine,1980-actor.; Bell, Emma,1986-actor.; Boulter, Roy,1964-film producer.; Carradine, Keith,1949-actor.; Davies, Terence,1945-screenwriter,film director.; Di Ciaula, Pia,editor of moving image work.; Duff, Duncan,1964-actor.; Ehle, Jennifer,1969-actor.; Hoffmeister, Florian,1970-director of photography.; May, Jodhi,1975-actor.; Nixon, Cynthia,actor.; Papadopoulos, Solon,film producer.; Double Dutch International,presenter.; Gibson & MacLeod (Firm),presenter.; Hurricane Films,production company.; Indomitable Entertainment,presenter.; Music Box Films,publisher.; Potemkino (Firm),production company.; Scope Pictures (Firm),production company.; Screen Flanders (Flanders, Belgium),presenter.; TVA Films (Firm),film distributor.; WeatherVane Productions,presenter.;
Editor, Pia Di Ciaula ; director of photography, Florian Hoffmeister.Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine.Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson, personifying the biting wit and staunch independence of the great American poet, who would not be recognized until after her death. Revered British director Terence Davies exquisitely evokes the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of the period with which Dickinson struggled before finding transcendence in her poetry.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Women poets, American;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Say hello to my little friend : a novel / by Crucet, Jennine Capó,author.;
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it. After finding himself at the mercy of a cease-and-desist letter from Pitbull's legal team and living in his aunt's garage-turned-efficiency, Izzy embarks on an absurd quest to turn himself into a modern-day Tony Montana. When Izzy's efforts lead him to the tank that houses Lolita, a captive orca at the Miami Seaquarium, she proves just how powerful she and the water surrounding her really are--permeating everything from Miami's sinking streets to Izzy's memories to the very heart of the novel itself. What begins as Izzy's story turns into a super-saturated fever dream as sprawling and surreal as the Magic City, one as sharp as an iguana's claws, and as menacing as a killer whale's teeth. As the truth surrounding Izzy's boyhood escape from Cuba surfaces, the novel reckons with the forces of nature, with the limits and absence of love, and with the dangers of pursuing a tragic inheritance. Wildly narrated and expertly rendered, Say Hello to My Little Friend is Jennine Capó Crucet's most daring, heart-breaking, and fearless book yet.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cuban Americans; Killer whale; Memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The angry black girl and her monster [videorecording] / by Coleman, Chad,actor.; Hayes, Laya DeLeon,actor.; Story, Bomani J.,film director.; Whitaker, Denzel,1990-actor.; Image Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; RLJ Entertainment,distributor.;
Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman.After witnessing her mother's untimely death as a child and her brother's violent murder as a young teen, Vicaria is on a desperate quest to cure death.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; African American women; African American families; Death; Siblings; Quests (Expeditions);
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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One of our kind : a novel / by Yoon, Nicola,author.;
"When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality, but Liberty residents seem more focused on spa treatments and keeping up appearances. Jasmyn's only friends in the community are equally perplexed and frustrated by Liberty's outlook, a frustration that turns to concern when their loved ones start embracing the Liberty way of life. As Jasmyn learns more about Liberty and its founders, she discovers a terrible secret that threatens to destroy her world in ways she could never have imagined"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; African American families; Gated communities; Secrecy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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One of our kind [text (large print)] : a novel / by Yoon, Nicola,author.;
"When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality, but Liberty residents seem more focused on spa treatments and keeping up appearances. Jasmyn's only friends in the community are equally perplexed and frustrated by Liberty's outlook, a frustration that turns to concern when their loved ones start embracing the Liberty way of life. As Jasmyn learns more about Liberty and its founders, she discovers a terrible secret that threatens to destroy her world in ways she could never have imagined"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; African American families; Gated communities; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black girls must die exhausted : a novel / by Allen, Jayne,1978-author.;
After learning she might not be able to have children, thirty-three-year-old Tabitha Walker, a black woman planning to "have it all," watches her dreams dissolve and must rely on her two best friends to get through.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African American women journalists; African American women; Female friendship; Infertility;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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