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Series
Publisher
New Harvest, Houghtin Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame proved...
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Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wilkinson, the first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company and an inspiration to Misty Copeland. When she was only five years old, her parents took her to see the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Raven perched on her crushed velvet seat, heard the tympani, and cried with delight even before the curtain lifted. From that moment on, her passion for dance only...
24804) Hurricane child
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Publisher
Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own experiences to explore themes of identity and belonging in...
24806) Honor: a novel
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other"--
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel,popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known under his pseudonym "Dr. Seuss") was probably the best-loved and best-selling children's book writer of all time....
24808) I am Harriet Tubman
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A biography of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist leader who played a key role in helping enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Now, in his own words, "Irish" Micky Ward tells his inspirational life story as only he can. From his first bout at the age of seven, Micky Ward was known foremost for giving as good as he got and for leaving absolutely everything he had in the ring. When he fought, quitting was never an option. It was that indomitable spirit that would allow him to survive, battle against, and overcome the harsh realities that he faced every day of his life. For...
24810) How to raise an antiracist
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2006
Description
1. So What's It All About? - 2. What's the Point (of Those Ears)? Eragon and the Elves - 3. FIRE! Saphira and the Dragons - 4. Dwarves, the Shade, Urgals, Giants, and Other Beasties - 5. Magic: How Do They Do That? - 6. Angela the Herbalist: If Plants Are Conscious, Is She Guilty of Murder? - 7. Geography and Norsemen - 8. Write Your Own Fantasy - 9. About Christopher Paolini
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers...
24814) Sex and the single girl
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
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Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance...
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Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Malcolm X is known as a leader of the civil rights movement. He faced racism, spent time in prison, became a minister, joined the Nation of Islam, left, took a pilgrimage to Mecca, traveled the world, and became a public figure before his assassination.Explore how his words shaped the civil rights movement and the people who called him a leader."--
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1946
Description
My Three Years with Eisenhower could have been written only by the man who lived with Dwight D. Eisenhower day and night; who acted as his friend and confidant; whose duties ranged from opening the General's car door to handling such ticklish jobs as the battle between General Patton and Sergeant Bill Mauldin; who saw Dwight Eisenhower, in his intimate day by day life, develop from a relatively unknown staff officer to the Commander of the greatest...
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Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011
Description
Introduction -- A conversation with Shannon Hale -- Vampires -- Covens. The Cullen coven ; The Cullen home ; The Volturi coven ; The Volturi guard ; The Volturi lair ; The Amazon coven ; The Denali coven ; The Egyptian coven ; The Irish coven ; James's coven ; The Mexican coven ; Riley's coven ; The Romanian coven ; The nomads ; Joham and the vampire hybrids -- Werewolves. The children of the moon ; The Quileute werewolves ; The Quileute packs and...
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