Karen Chilton
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From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first
African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open.
In this first full-scale biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career...
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What does a flight nurse do every day? What character traits are essential for a flight nurse to have? Follow flight nurses as as they work to keep people healthy. These health heroes do the important work of flying injured or sick patients to a hospital that can help. Discover the tools they use as they work with the flight crew and hospital staff to keep patients healthy. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first....
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Combining family stories of the everyday and the extraordinary as seen through the eyes of her twelve-year-old self, Willie Mae Brown gives readers an unforgettable portrayal of her coming of age in a town at the crossroads of history.
As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family's home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across...
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A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance.
Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they've got to live large in real life to stay large online. With only a few blacks in their elite
gated community, they settle...