Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 309 |

Every drop is a man's nightmare [large print]: stories / by Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei,author.(CARDINAL)873000;
A Catalogue of Kānaka superstitions, as told by your mother -- Every drop is a man's nightmare -- Story of men -- Temporary dwellers -- Madwomen -- Ms. Amelia's salon for women in charge -- Hotel Molokai -- Aiko, the writer -- Some things I know about Elvis -- Touch me like one of your island girls: a love story -- The love and decline of the corpse flower."Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (pig) on the haunted Pali highway portends one young woman's fraught relationship with her pregnant body. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in a giant flower. A kanaka writer, mid-manuscript, feels her raw pages quaking and knocking in the briefcase. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is both a fierce love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology, and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory threatening to erupt with violent secrets"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Short stories.; Fiction.; Hawaiian women; Multiracial women;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
unAPI

Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories / by Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei,author.(CARDINAL)873000;
"Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (pig) on the haunted Pali highway portends one young woman's fraught relationship with her pregnant body. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in a giant flower. A kanaka writer, mid-manuscript, feels her raw pages quaking and knocking in the briefcase."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Short stories.; Hawaiian women; Multiracial women; Colonization;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 15
unAPI

Alice's trading post [large print] : a novel of the west / by Feldman, Kerry Dean,1940-author.;
"Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather and lovely, feisty, Indian mother alongside the Columbia River. She can shoot a beaver eye at a hundred paces, doesn't know how to cook or sew, can fight blade up with knives, hunt bear on her own, never wears a dress. This idyllic life in the Willamette Valley ends when she begins her woman moons, and her family travels across the Mullan Road to wild Fort Benton on the Upper Missouri, Montana Territory. Circumstances force her mother to trade her to an old fur trader. Young Alice must learn how to become a woman on her own, wonders if she's Indian like her mother or white like her father. She longs for family, love, and knowing where she fits in a violent Plains era. Alice's stories are found, as recorded by her grandson, under her burnt-out trading post in South Dakota, then transcribed by the Buffalo Gap Historical Society."--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Lakota Indians; Multiracial women;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
unAPI

Blob : a love story / by Su, Maggieauthor;
After getting dumped, lonely college dropout Vi Liu discovers a strange blob in an ally outside a bar and takes it home where she works with the increasingly sentient creature and molds it into her ideal partner.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Science fiction.; Novels.; Multiracial women; Shapeshifting; Interpersonal relations;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 23
unAPI

Ghost girl, banana : a novel / by Wharton, Wiz,1969-author.(CARDINAL)866723;
"Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. But as she trains to become a nurse in cold and wet England, Sook-Yin realizes that, like so many transplants, she must carve out a destiny of her own to survive. Thirty years later in London, having lost her mother as a small child, biracial misfit Lily can only remember what Maya, her preternaturally perfect older sister, has told her about Sook-Yin. Unexpectedly named in the will of a powerful Chinese stranger, Lily embarks on a secret pilgrimage across the world to discover the lost side of her identity and claim the reward. But just as change is coming to Hong Kong, so Lily learns Maya's secrecy about their past has deep roots, and that good fortune comes at a price. Heartfelt, wry and achingly real, Ghost Girl, Banana marks the stunning debut of a writer-to-watch." --
Subjects: Novels.; Fiction.; Chinese; Multiracial women;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
unAPI

Resurrecting Mingus : a novel / by Adams, Jenoyne.(CARDINAL)704983;
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Multiracial people; Young women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

Alice's Trading Post : a novel of the west / by Feldman, Kerry Dean,1940-author.;
"Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather and lovely, feisty, Indian mother alongside the Columbia River. She can shoot a beaver eye at a hundred paces, doesn't know how to cook or sew, can fight blade up with knives, hunt bear on her own, never wears a dress. This idyllic life in the Willamette Valley ends when she begins her woman moons, and her family travels across the Mullan Road to wild Fort Benton on the Upper Missouri, Montana Territory. Circumstances force her mother to trade her to an old fur trader. Young Alice must learn how to become a woman on her own, wonders if she's Indian like her mother or white like her father. She longs for family, love, and knowing where she fits in a violent Plains era. Alice's stories are found, as recorded by her grandson, under her burnt-out trading post in South Dakota, then transcribed by the Buffalo Gap Historical Society"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Lakota Indians; Multiracial women;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
unAPI

Aftershocks [sound recording] : a memoir / by Owusu, Nadia,1981-author,narrator.(CARDINAL)846518;
Read by Nadia Owusu.This poetic, genre-bending work, blending memoir with cultural history, from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Owusu, Nadia, 1981-; Multiracial women; Multiracial women; Multiracial people; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Aftershocks [large print] : a memoir / by Owusu, Nadia,1981-author.(CARDINAL)846518;
Foreshocks -- The blue chair -- Topography -- The blue chair -- Faults -- Mainshocks -- Faults -- The blue chair -- Aftershocks -- Mainshocks -- The blue chair -- Terraforming -- Acknowledgments."Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. The instability wrought by Nadia's nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures. Her mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was a toddler, would periodically reappear. Her father, a Ghanaian, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia's stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie. Aftershocks is the way Nadia hauled herself from the wreckage and came to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Owusu, Nadia, 1981-; Multiracial women; Multiracial women; Multiracial people; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
unAPI

Aftershocks : a memoir / by Owusu, Nadia,1981-author.(CARDINAL)846518;
"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen she still felt as if she had so many competing personas that she couldn't keep track of them all without cracking under the pressure of trying to hold herself together. A powerful coming-of-age story that explores timely and universal themes of identity, Aftershocks follows Nadia's life as she hauls herself out of the wreckage and begins to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one she writes into existence"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Owusu, Nadia, 1981-; Multiracial women; Multiracial women; Multiracial people; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 21
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 309 |