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1) Roots
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Author
Language
English
Description
A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delivers new revelations about Michael Jackson's controversial life and legacy: his multiple plastic surgeries, his skin bleaching, his sexual identity, and his potentially fatal genetic condition ... and dispels the popular myths" about the King of Pop. The conclusion was written after "Michael Jackson's died just as this book was going to press."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brings to life the true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French Resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame...
7) Roots
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Author
Publisher
Trafford Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When the author learned that her great-great-grandmother had been murdered, she began an investigation into her family's history that led her to discover other murders-- lots and lots of murders.
10) Shaking the family tree: blue bloods, black sheep, and other obsessions of an accidental genealogist
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?"
As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions-that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her first visit to the Boulder Genealogy Society brought her more questions than answers . . . but it also gave...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jake Hyde yearns for the ocean and is determined to leave his hometown in New Mexico for a college on the coast, and while his family and friends encourage him to stay, he must deal with his secrets of being gay and some strange new blue markings on his skin giving him a glow when he touches water."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 158 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Richie Jackson's son born through surrogacy comes out to him at the age of 18, Richie--now in his 50s, a successful producer and happily married--feels compelled to write him a letter. Gay Like Me is both a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. Jackson talks of his own progress and growth as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural change. We've come a long way, he argues: discrimination is now outlawed...
14) Yard war
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during the Second World WarThe leafy Avenue de Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young...