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81) The summoner
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville--America's first incorporated Black township--has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora's own father--the showboating preacher John Hurston--decided to run against the town's trusted mayor, but there...
83) Rascal
Author
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
85) Tomorrow's bread
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, churches, and night clubs. There are shotgun shacks and poverty, along with well-maintained houses like the one Loraylee Hawkins shares with her young son, Hawk, her Uncle Ray, and her grandmother, Bibi. Loraylee's love for Archibald Griffin, Hawk's white father...
86) Yellow Dog blues
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog." -- Provided by publisher.
88) Red tails
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Janie is not exactly sure why her daddy is riding a bus from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C. She knows why she has to go-to stay out of her mother's way, especially with the twins now teething. But Daddy wants to hear a man named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak and, to keep out of trouble, Janie is sent along. Riding the bus with them is a mishmash of people, black and white, young and old. They seem very different from Janie. As the bus travels...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence." -- Provided by publisher.
93) Paris, 7 a.m
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Reimagines the experiences of pre-fame poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks spent in Paris on the eve of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
GN 640L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Graphic memoir about the career of Stan Lee, the American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
"In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examining the growth of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) following the birth of the civil rights movement, this book is filled with tales of the heroic efforts to halt their rise to power. Shortly after the success of the Montgomery bus boycott, the KKK—determined to keep segregation as the way of life in Alabama—staged a resurgence, and the strong-armed leadership of Governor George C. Wallace, who defied the new civil rights laws, empowered
...Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published letters, documents, and photographs that help tell the story of this literary genius and his remarkable creative journey. The result is a richly...
Author
Series
Collected plays of Neil Simon volume 1
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
657 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains seven plays by Neil Simon written between 1960 and 1970, and includes an introduction by the playwright.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 172 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade. Hemingway divulged the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic...
100) Ophie's ghosts
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.
Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie...