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Kittentits / by Wilson, Holly,author.;
"It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a questionable past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly's adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty mouths, so naturally Molly can't seem to leave Jeanie alone. When Jeanie fakes her own death in a hot-air balloon accident, Molly runs away to Chicago with just a stolen credit card and a sweet pair of LA Gear Heatwaves to meet her pen pal Demarcus and hunt down Jeanie. What follows is a race to New Year's Eve, as Molly and Demarcus plan a séance to reunite with their lost moms in front of a live audience at the World's Fair."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Authors, American; Friendship; Girls; Grief; Loss (Psychology); Roommates;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black Panther : the young prince / by Smith, Ronald L.(Ronald Lenard),1959-;
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Subjects: Black Panther (Fictitious character); Superheroes; Princes; Middle schools; Secrecy;
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Dead land / by Paretsky, Sara,author.;
Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert. Not only does Bernie plunge her and V.I. headlong into the path of some ruthless developers, they lead to the murder of the young man Bernie is dating. The detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicago's parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in America's meddling in South American politics. Before she finds answers, this electrifying novel pushes V.I. close to the breaking point: People who pay to play take no prisoners.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Murder; Conspiracies;
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Amira & Hamza : the war to save the worlds / by Ahmed, Samira(Fiction writer);
A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Muslims; Fate and fatalism; Good and evil;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Wizard of Oz / by Sullivan, Robert,1953-;
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Subjects: Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939);
© c2014., Life Books,
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Kid guides. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Echo Entertainment.; Janson Media.;
Downtown Aquarium, Houston, Texas -- Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois -- Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California.G.DVD.
Subjects: John G. Shedd Aquarium.; Monterey Bay Aquarium.; Aquariums; Aquariums; Aquariums; Children's films.; Video recordings for children.;
© c2008., Janson Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pay dirt / by Paretsky, Sara,author.;
While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Murder; Opioid abuse; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pay dirt [text (large print)] / by Paretsky, Sara,author.;
While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Murder; Opioid abuse; Women private investigators;
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Isaac's song : a novel / by Black, Daniel,author.;
Isaac is at a crossroads in his young life. Growing up in Missouri, the son of a caustic, hard-driving father, he was conditioned to suppress his artistic pursuits and physical desires, notions that didn't align with a traditional view of masculinity. But now, in late '80s Chicago, Isaac has finally carved out a life of his own. He is sensitive and tenderhearted and has built up the courage to seek out a community. Yet just as he begins to embrace who he is, two social catalysts--the AIDS crisis and Rodney King's attack--collectively extinguish his hard-earned joy. At a therapist's encouragement, Isaac begins to write down his story. In the process, he taps into a creative energy that will send him on a journey back to his family, his ancestral home in Arkansas and the inherited trauma of the nation's dark past. But a surprise discovery will either unlock the truths he's seeking or threaten to derail the life he's fought so hard to claim.
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; African American men; Families; Fathers and sons; Identity (Psychology); Sexual minorities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Crossroads / by Franzen, Jonathan,author.;
"It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Intergenerational communication; Intergenerational relations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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