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41) Wrestle
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Formats
Description
*Hoop Dreams* goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama’s list of failing schools. Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the State Championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
5 Videodiscs : 928 min] sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart is set on becoming a heart surgeon, just like her father. But when she's told she doesn't have the requisite bedside manner to receive an important fellowship, she unexpectedly finds herself in tiny Bluebell, Alabama-- a place where she will learn to be a better doctor and a better person, and maybe ever fall in love"--Container of first season.
44) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Language
English
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Description
Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks is the 3rd hero in in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary)
Each picture book in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a character trait that made the person heroic. The heros are depicted as children throughout, telling their life stories in
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1975, thirteen-year-old Ruby Mae Vickers disappears in Alvin, Alabama. Leah Teal, new detective of Alvin, is assigned to the case. After three months, Ruby Mae finally turns up dead beneath a willow beside a swamp. Twelve years later, another little girl goes missing. Then another. Leah is sure these incidents are connected to the one she failed to solve a dozen years ago. The job of finding them again falls to Leah. She's not prepared for the...
46) Dirt road home
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
1st Square Fish ed.
Physical Desc
211, [6] p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
"Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So...
48) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Covers the three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 159
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
818 pages, 61 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three key works by the early twentieth-century author include the 'prophetic journalism' experiment of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family, and the novella The Morning Watch
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks.
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
A 50th-anniversary tribute shares the story of the youngest person to complete the momentous Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in historic Civil Rights events.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014, p2015.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (928 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season three finds Dr. Zoe Hart fighting to regain her practice from Dr. Brick Breeland, New Yorker Joel struggling to blend in with small-town life, Lemon Breeland and Wade Kinsella becoming unlikely business partners, Mayor Hayes finding happiness with AnnaBeth Nass, and George Tucker suffering yet another broken heart.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new...
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