Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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-- Saturday AM presents Clock striker.2023., Rockport Call No: GN GAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Clock Striker Volume: bk 1Summary Note: "Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named Ms. Philomena Clock, who agrees to take her on as her apprentice, or striker. Now Cast is thrust into one deadly adventure after another! From cybernetic desperadoes to technology thieves and more, Cast has to use her mind and her remodeled robotics-lab prosthetic hand, which offers unfathomable offensive power in the form of scientific experiments. Need lightning? Cast can generate it from her hand! Cast's mentor seeks to uncover an ominous mystery that explains what happened to the SMITHS and shines a light on a hidden power that may be within Cast herself"--Amazon.
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-- Saturday AM presents Clock striker.2023., Rockport Call No: GN CLO Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named Ms. Philomena Clock, who agrees to take her on as her apprentice, or striker. Now Cast is thrust into one deadly adventure after another! From cybernetic desperadoes to technology thieves and more, Cast has to use her mind and her remodeled robotics-lab prosthetic hand, which offers unfathomable offensive power in the form of scientific experiments. Need lightning? Cast can generate it from her hand! Cast's mentor seeks to uncover an ominous mystery that explains what happened to the SMITHS and shines a light on a hidden power that may be within Cast herself"--Amazon.
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2023., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: SUPERNATURAL F SHE Edition: First editino. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she's dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom. But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate choice: continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is--monstrous heart and all. That is, if the god-killer doesn't catch her first. From debut author Jamison Shea comes I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me, a slow-burn horror that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2016], G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY F FAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Jane Steele's favorite book is Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," and while her life is like Eyre's in many ways, there is one important difference--Steele is a murderess. After escaping life with her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, Jane spends several years in a grim boarding school, escaping at last, leaving a trail of bodies as she hides from the authorities in London. When she learns her aunt and cousin have died and someone named Mr. Charles Thornfield has bought her childhood home, Jane returns there undercover as governess, hoping to discover if she is the true heir and, if so, what she can do to take what is rightfully hers.
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2021., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Sci Fi SC Pho Genre: Science fiction, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic featuring black and gender non-conforming characters.
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2015., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: REALISTIC FIC019000 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Young Pip Tyler knows very little about who she is or where she came from. Her mother has been living under an assumed name and never told Pip who her father was. All she really knows is that her name is Purity and she's coming out of college with $130,000 in student debt. When she travels to South America for an internship with the Sunlight Project, she will face the truth of who she truly is as her feelings for a man on the run turn her ideas of right and wrong upside down.
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2014., First Second Call No: GRAPHIC NOVELS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Fictional graphic novel telling a magical realist story set in the world of the black market for deceased brides in China"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Courage to dream2022., Primary, Marvel Call No: [E] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Assata dreams of being a Dora Milaje warrior in her home country of Wakanda, but because she's disabled, she gives up on her dream and instead pursues science. When she's given the opportunity to advance her scientific discoveries, Assata feels sad instead of happy. However, before she completely gives up on her dream, she receives encouragement from Lord M'Baku who helps her believe in herself.
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By Boyd, Jeff2023., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster Call No: REALISTIC F BOY Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he's still in disarray two years later--pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his strict religious background. Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative romance, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. Until suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian's best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left--the only thing he's ever had, really--is the weight he is carrying. Jeff Boyd's beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship--woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance"--Jacket flap.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC HAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home --
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[2021]., Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYSTERY F HAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When you look like us--brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades--everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend--a drug dealer--and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: TEEN FIC HAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A boy must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked"--OCLC.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A boy must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked"--OCLC.
