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1441) Chi-Raq
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's South Side creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag.
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are. And all is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home.
1443) An invisible thread
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Young readers' edition, First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
198 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch. Maurice and Laura went to lunch together, and also bought ice cream cones and played video games. It was the beginning of an unlikely and magical friendship that changed both of their lives forever.
1444) The golden girls of Rio
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The women athletes of the 2016 Summer Olympics captivated the world: Simon Biles, the most decorated American gymnast of all time; Katie Ledecky, who shattered swimming records in multiple events; Michelle Carter, the first American gold medalist in shot put; Simone Manuel, the first African American woman to medal in individual swimming. Their accomplishments amazed us, as did their personal stories of persistence and hard work. The Golden Girls...
1445) Harriet
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
1446) Binge box: Black history
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 770 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
The birth of a nation: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
12 years a slave: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to...
1447) Madea goes to jail
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Madea's about to be sent to the only place she won't be able to talk her way out of ... jail! This tale of everybody's favorite Southern matriarch overflows with all the heartwarming laughter and down-home wisdom synonymous with the name Madea.
1448) Black Dynamite
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend called Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Black Dynamite is ready to seek his revenge and take The Man down.
1449) Bayou: Volume one
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 16 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into this fantastic and frightening alternate world. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues singing, swamp monster called Bayou. Together, Lee and...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 459 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chris is a high school student growing up in Brooklyn, NY who just wants to hang with the cool kids, date pretty girls and have a normal family. But the ups and downs of a typical teen turn hilarious when seen through an outrageous and irreverent point of view. His school is located in a predominantly Italian neighborhood. He is constantly faced with many new challenges. Chris Rock narrates this touching story that was inspired by his own childhood...
1451) Under the cherry moon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prince plays Christopher Tracy, an American musician living on the French Riviera and on the bank accounts of bored divorcees. The money is good but not good enough, so Christopher sets out to woo and marry a lovely young heiress. But he didn't count on confronting the heiress' enraged father, or falling in love.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Versión expandida.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la brava madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres.
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four under tragic circumstances...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 kit, in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (742 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Argo": Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
"Birdman": A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
"Green book": A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American...
1456) Nellie in the news
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Physical Desc
48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosie Freedman is a gifted young African American girl who drops out of school when her family falls on hard times. It is only when she meets Nellie Bly, a journalist on an amazing mission, that Rosie starts to dream again"--Cover verso. Includes factual information about the status of women in 19th-century America, Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and famous journeys around the world.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Socrates Bravo Jefferson, a young Negro scholar in 1928 Alabama, dreads leaving his family to attend college preparatory school. Through a particularly arduous cotton season in which ownership of their farm hangs in the balance, Socrates's family struggles to keep their land, while a Farm Bureau agent, a depraved Northern outsider, and a drove of wild hogs threaten to destroy them, the farm's pickers, and the way they have lived for the last hundred...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (721 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The miracle: The inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in American sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's Olympic victory against the Soviet Union.
Remember the Titans: A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different...