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Author
Series
Publisher
Full Tilt Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marley Dias was 10 years old, she decided she was tired of reading books about white boys. She was hungry for stories she could relate to and characters who looked like her. With help from her mom, Marley started collecting books--and even wrote her own. Marley has sent thousands of books to schools in the US, Jamaica, and Ghana. Her determination helped her become a strong teenager.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
4323) London calling
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Special Edition
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Newly promoted expat Robin Johnson is ready to take London by storm! Her career blossoming, Rob soon tumbles headlong into the local dating scene...with disastrous results. When she confides her misadventures to her coworker's understanding brother Craig, the last thing she expects is to find an elusive spark--with him! After so many false starts, can Rob find it in her heart to give Craig the chance that he deserves?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
1 book club set, in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey Bassey Ikpi explores her life--as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist--through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy. From her early...
4327) 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
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 187 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A look at the agency's attempts to deliver justice to the Texas black community following the Civil War.
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters."[The] episodes in Texas Reconstruction history that...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents' struggles in a sometimes-hostile country. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When...
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...