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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In a story rich in intrigue, adventure, danger, and romance, a mixed-race teen heroine must decide which part of her heritage to claim: her privileged status, or her ability to become invisible for which her kin are being persecuted"--
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This offbeat illustrated history reveals 65 people you've probably never heard of, but who helped shape the word as we know it. Muses and neighbors, friends and relatives, accomplices and benefactors--such as Michael and Joy Brown, who gifted Harper Lee a year's worth of wages to help her write To Kill a Mockingbird. Or John Ordway, the colleague who walked with Lewis and Clark every step of the way.
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether urban agriculture helps create food security for poor Americans, whether urban agriculture is sustainable if treated as a legitimate business, and whether urban agriculture provides communities more benefits than just food.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol, who tries to seduce him.
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the attempted coup following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration, the editors asked twenty-first-century historians to focus on the parallels,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
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