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Losing Leah / by King, Tiffany,author.(CARDINAL)610606;
Ten years after the tragic disappearance of her twin sister Leah, sixteen-year-old Mia Klein still struggles to exist within a family that has never fully recovered. Deep in the dark recesses of her mind lies an overwhelming shadow, taunting Mia with mind-splitting headaches that she tries to hide in an effort to appear okay. Leah Klein's life as she knew it ended the day she was taken, thrust into a world of abuse and fear by a distubed captor - "Mother," as she insists on being called. Ten years later, any recollection of her former life are nothing more than fleeting memories, except for those about Mia. As Leah tries to gain the courage to escape, Mia's headaches grow worse. Soon, both sisters that their fates are linked in ways they never realized.HL720L
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Missing persons; Twins; Abused children;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 8
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Tsubasa. [manga] by CLAMP (Mangaka group),author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)546556; Flanagan, William,translator.(CARDINAL)472277; Hayward, Dana,letterer.(CARDINAL)471369;
"Following the trail of the stolen children of Spirit Town, Sakura is captured at the forbidden castle, where she encounters the golden-haired ghost! Syaoran and his friends-the sociable magician Fai D. Flowright, the master swordsman Kurogane, and the odd creature Mokona-must now penetrate the ancient stronghold in order to rescue Sakura and the missing children. Will they finally uncover the truth behind the legend of Princess Emerald? And will they recover another fragment of Sakura's lost memory?"--Rated T for age +13.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Manga.; Young adult fiction.; Amnesia; Graphic novels; Man-woman relationships; Manga (Comic books); Princesses; Quests (Expeditions);
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 13
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Swept away / by Herne, Ruth Logan,author.(CARDINAL)591326;
"The arrival of a Hollywood film crew revives memories of three dramatic events in Martha's Vineyard's history: a little girl's unsolved disappearance, a daring heist, and a major hurricane. When Priscilla learns that all three events occurred over the course of the same weekend, she is convinced that they were connected. But how? With her daughter, Rachel, visiting, Priscilla dives into the mystery, she isn't alone. The son of the detective who oversaw the case of the missing girl tells Priscilla he is seeking answers to put his ailing father's mind to rest. But is his story true, or is he just interested in recovering the missing money from the heist? As Priscilla pieces together the clues, a smaller--but no less vexing--mystery hits closer to home. When her newly painted lemon-yellow door ruffles feathers in her neighborhood, someone begins leaving ugly scratches in paint. Who is behind this disturbing vandalism--and can Priscilla catch the culprit to put a stop to it?"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Christian fiction.; Vandalism; Hurricanes; Missing children;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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The gilded hour [sound recording] / by Donati, Sara,1956-author.; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.(CARDINAL)347921; Blackstone Audio, Inc.(CARDINAL)346395;
Read by Cassandra Campbell.The year is 1883, and although young surgeon Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie, have become successful physicians, they never recovered from the losses they suffered as children. So when Anna encounters a child who's lost nearly everything, she must decide whether or not she's willing to let go of the past and let love into her life. Meanwhile, Sophie's memories of being left alone in the world propel the young obstetrician to help a desperate mother--and catapult her into the orbit of a very dangerous man.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Women physicians;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Blood on the tracks. [manga] by Oshimi, Shūzō;,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)602503; Komen, Daniel,translator.(CARDINAL)426526;
"His mother finally in custody, Seiichi is questioned by police and recovers a memory of being thrown off a cliff just like Shigeru. He begins to free himself from his mother's spell, and even rekindles his relationship with Fukiishi...But even as Seiichi's heart fills with new hope, a strange visitor comes to him in the night--?!"--Page [4] of cover.Ages 16+.
Subjects: Thriller comics.; Horror comics.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Manga.; Middle school students; Manga (comic books); Dysfunctional families; Psychologically abused children; Mothers and sons; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Civil rights childhood : picturing liberation in African American photobooks / by Capshaw, Katharine.(CARDINAL)408925;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change -- Pictures and Nonfiction : Conduct and Coffee Tables -- Today : Framing Freedom in Mississippi -- The Black Arts Movement : Childhood as Liberatory Process -- Blurring the Childhood Image : Representations of the Civil Rights Narrative -- Conclusion: A Text for Trayvon.Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw's Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the Black child has been--and continues to be--a social agent that demands change. Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wakeof Brown v. Board of Education had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the iconography of Emmett Till and the girls murdered in the 1963 Birmingham church bombings, Capshaw explores the function of children's photographic books and the image of the Black child in social justice campaigns for school integration and the civil rights movement. Drawing on works ranging from documentary photography, coffee-table and art books, and popular historical narratives and photographic picture books forthe very young, Civil Rights Childhood sheds new light on images of the child and family that portrayed liberatory models of Blackness, but it also considers the role photographs played in the desire for consensus and closure with the rise of multiculturalism. Offering rich analysis, Capshaw recovers many obscure texts and photographs while at the same time placing major names like Langston Hughes, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison in dialogue with lesser-known writers. An important addition to thinking about representation and politics, Civil Rights Childhood ultimately shows how the photobook--and the aspirations of childhood itself--encourage cultural transformation.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Social justice; African American children; African American children; Picture books; Photography; Art and social action;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 9
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Whatever after: beauty queen / by Mlynowski, Sarah,author.;
Abby's first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast's roses--her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents miss them.RL: Grade 4Grades 3-6.380LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Adaptations.; Fiction.; Beauty and the beast (Tale); Fairy tales; Magic mirrors; Siblings; Amnesia; Children's stories.; Characters and characteristics in literature; Siblings.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Massacre in the clouds : an American atrocity and the erasure of history / by Wagner, Kim A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a 'brilliant feat of arms' according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed to bury the story. Despite the fact that the slaughter of Moros had been captured on camera, the memory of the massacre soon disappeared from the historical record. In Massacre in the Clouds, Kim A. Wagner meticulously recovers the history of a forgotten atrocity and the remarkable photograph that exposed its grim logic. His vivid, unsparing account of the massacre-which claimed hundreds more lives than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined-reveals the extent to which practices of colonial warfare and violence, derived from European imperialism, were fully embraced by Americans with catastrophic results"--
Subjects: Mount Dajo, Battle of, Philippines, 1906; Muslims;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Remnants : embodied archives of the Armenian Genocide / by Semerdjian, Elyse,author.(CARDINAL)888198;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-356) and index."A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. In Remnants, these tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and--in what remains of those lives a century afterward--bones. With this book, Elyse Semerdjian offers a feminist reading of the Armenian Genocide. She explores how the Ottoman Armenian communal body was dis-membered, disfigured, and later re-membered by the survivor community. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments, she writes a deeply personal history, and issues a call to break open the archival record in order to embrace affect and memory. Traces of women and children rescued during and after the war are reconstructed to center the quietest voices in the historical record. This daring work embraces physical and archival remnants, the imprinted negatives of once living bodies, as a space of radical possibility within Armenian prosthetic memory and a necessary way to recognize the absence that remains"--
Subjects: Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923; Armenian Genocide survivors; Women genocide survivors; Human body; Collective memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In her bones : a novel / by Moretti, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)346002;
"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of Lilith's victims. She's desperate to see how they've managed--or failed--to move on. While her escalating fixation is a problem, she's careful to keep her distance. That is, until she crosses a line and a man is found murdered. Edie quickly becomes the prime suspect--and while she can't remember everything that happened the night of the murder, she'd surely remember killing someone. With the detective who arrested her mother hot on her trail, Edie goes into hiding. She must get to the truth of what happened that night before the police--or the real killer--will find her. Unless, of course, she has more in common with her mother than she's willing to admit."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Mothers and daughters; Stalking; Memory disorders; Death row inmates; Recovering alcoholics; Families; Children of criminals;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 19
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