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English
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah.
3) For Lamb
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English
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An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
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Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they decide to help the new animal shelter with their own talents, Mae raises money to buy cat food with a lemonade stand and April writes a letter to the newspaper to encourage adoption"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of Comeback Love comes a sweeping, panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave.
Author
Series
Every day with April and Mae volume 6
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When April plans a backyard sleepover, Mae isn't sure about sleeping in the tent. Together they make the space more comfortable and fall asleep to scary stories--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs--creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice. Features conversations with Jemele Hill, Angie Thomas, Naima Cochrane and others.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
De’Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia—a move motivated...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A feel-good, coming of (middle) age comedy about a mismatched pair who helps each other overcome life's road blocks.
"Endearing, mordant, and impeccably acted."--Boston Globe.
"Learning to Drive may be a small movie, but it's a haunting one."--Toronto Star.
"As this movie, directed by Isabel Coixet, tracks the deepening friendship between people from different cultures and backgrounds, it acquires an unforced metaphorical resonance."--New York...
11) Broken blossoms
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min., 54 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2009.
Physical Desc
126 unnumbered pages ; color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance. A reissue of a memoir of a moment in time within a lifetime of friendship"--
13) Heroes
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
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English
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"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation -- in Little Rock and throughout the South -- and an...
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