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441) Mainely fear
Author
Series
A Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it.' This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...
442) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (128 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
443) 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.
444) 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...
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...
446) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two African American twenty-somethings have a one-night stand. And a night they barely remember becomes a day they will never forget. A tale of sex, race, bicycles and modern urban life. Deals with the challenge of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.
448) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African Americans. Confronted with racism and danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey...
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.
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...
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...