Janina Edwards
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English
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In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their...
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages, 22 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Duty. Honor. Country. That's West Point's motto, and every cadet who passes through its stone gates vows to live it. But on the eve of 9/11, as Dani, Hannah and Avery face four grueling years ahead, they realize they'll only survive if they do it together. Everyone knows Dani is going places. With athletic talent and a brilliant mind, she navigates West Point's predominantly male environment with wit and confidence, breaking stereotypes and embracing...
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English
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful...
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 5
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Language
English
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"An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust!"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 6
Language
English
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An earthquake shakes Zoey's house. Or maybe it's a unicorn-quake? An enormous new friend arrives in a lot of pain, and it's getting worse every day. Zoey must work with her mom and Sassafras to find a cure--and quickly!--
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Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 1
Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras, use science experiments to help a dragon with a problem.
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 4
Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When an unexpected snowstorm causes trouble for the magical creatures of the forest, Zoey and Sassafras come to the rescue. But their first attempt to save trapped caterfly eggs results in a big mistake. Can they figure out a way to fix things before the baby caterflies hatch?"--Book jacket flap.
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English
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It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and...
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 2
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras use science experiments to help a monster with a problem.
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 3
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras, use science experiments to help a local stream and magical merhorses.
13) Bips and roses
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Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 8
Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Oh no! There's a big problem with the forest roses . . . magical roses that are very important because they are the first food for newborn hippogriffs. Can Zoey, Pip, and Sassafras use their science know-how to fix the magical roses before the hippogriff eggs hatch?"--Back cover.
14) Party of two
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Series
Wedding dates volume 5
Language
English
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"A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 7
Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zoey and Sassafras are excited to enjoy their summer with their magical friends. But why is everyone so grumpy? A bunch of bad days one after the other lead Zoey to suspect that something more is afoot. It's up to Zoey and Sassafras to solve the mystery before they end up with one bummer of a summer!
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Series
America in the King years volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
xiv, 746 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trails. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him. --Adapted from...
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Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership,...
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 93 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"With a nod to Jorge Luis Borge's fascination with libraries, this ambitious first collection by Alison C. Rollins - a librarian herself - archives the grist and grind of life with marvelous linguistic agility and philosophical sapience. 'Memory is about the future, not the past,' Rollins reminds us, and offers poems as maps - counting teeth and time, marking punctuation and punishment, and remembering disappeared histories. Inside her indexed precision,...