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The vanishing half : [Book Club Set] / by Bennett, Brit,author.;
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Twin sisters; African American women; African American families; African Americans; Passing (Identity); Race discrimination;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A better man : a (mostly serious) letter to my son / by Black, Michael Ian,1971-author.;
"Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love"--
Subjects: Men; Masculinity.; Conduct of life.; Fathers and sons.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out / by Kuklin, Susan.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.LSC
Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; Gender nonconformity.; Transgender youth.; Gender identity.;
© 2014., Candlewick Press,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Canada's prime ministers and the shaping of a national identity. by Blake, Raymond Benjamin.;
"Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories. Focusing on the post-Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime minsters worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation."--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-); POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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They all saw a cat / by Wenzel, Brendan.;
In simple, rhythmic prose and stylized pictures, a cat walks through the world, and all the other creatures see and acknowledge the cat.LSC
Subjects: Cats; Identity (Psychology); Perspective;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dragonfly effect / by Korman, Gordon.;
The government is protecting Jackson Opus and his family from enemies, but he knows they want some help in return.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Hypnotism; Mesmerism; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lone wolf / by Kurpiel, Sarah.;
So many people think Maple is a wolf that she starts to believe them, but after exploring the world outside her home, she returns to her pack--the Parker family.LSC
Subjects: Dogs; Families; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Itty-bitty kitty-corn / by Hale, Shannon.; Pham, LeUyen.;
Kitty, who looks like a kitten yet feels she is actually a unicorn, begins to doubt herself as others ridicule her, until she meets a unicorn that helps her discover and embrace who she is.LSC
Subjects: Cats; Unicorns; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Becoming Charley / by DiPucchio, Kelly.; Wise, Loveis.;
Unlike all the other caterpillars Charley sometimes wonders what it would be like to be a fawn or a waterfall, so when the day comes to form her chrysalis, Charley must decide who she will become.
Subjects: Picture Books.; Identity (Psychology); Caterpillars; Butterflies;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The dark secret / by Sutherland, Tui,1978-;
When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets - and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Dragons; Prophecies; Identity (Psychology);
© c2013., Scholastic Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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