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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place--Pittsburgh, PA--from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely...
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winningBrothers and Keepers,...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (369 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
London's richest borough hides a dark side that Chelsea local DI Max Arnold knows all too well. Killers lurk among the art galleries and luxury homes, and it's up to Max and new partner Layla Walsh to expose them.
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A pioneering scholar offers this new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works and how we can fight back, revealing how hard-to-see systemic connections function to disproportionately contain, exploit and punish Black people and showing us how to create a more just America for us all.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ecco/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming coming-of-age story and a startling look at women's lives in the poorest section of postwar London, this final book in the acclaimed memoir series is the basis for the acclaimed PBS series.
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's...
892) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
Author
Series
Monstress volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
159 pages ; chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maika Halfwolf has begun to unlock the mysteries of her past--but the challenges of the present are only growing. Maika's journey takes her to the neutral city of Pontus, where she hopes to find temporary refuge from her pursuers. Unfortunately, Pontus may not be as safe as Maika and her allies had hoped. As the impending war between humans and Arcanics creeps ever closer, and powerful players fight for the chance to control her future, Maika finds...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st United States ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 566 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gulag," acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida. Sin embargo, lo que encontró fue a una madre indiferente y a un padre alcohólico y violento, en un país cuyo sistema educativo menospreciaba sus raíces. Reyna se refugió en las palabras. Su amor por la lectura...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (570 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1967 brings fresh medical and personal challenges to the midwifery and district nursing rounds. Thanks to Matthew's continued support, things at Nonnatus House are now settled and going well, and Trixie helps Matthew understand the community he is becoming a part of. Doctor Turner faces some changes in his relationship with Timothy now that he is an adult, while Shelagh continues to support community health programs. Across the series, the team faces...
898) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
274 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
899) The road dance
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
900) Tokyo Ueno station
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
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