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4561) King: a comics biography
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
312 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (613 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sophie and the moonhanger: In the 1950s South, a woman is torn between her husband, the Grand Dragon of the KKK, and her black best friend ; Go tell it on the mountain: John has a talent for writing, but his father has pushed him towards a life of faith. As the two battle each other, they must also overcome their own personal struggles in the adaptation of James Baldwin's beloved novel ; Honeydripper: Tyrone Purvis will try anything to keep his blues...
Author
Series
Bitter root volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...
4566) Coretta Scott King
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
39 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who shared his dedication to working peaceably to achieve equality for all Americans.
4567) The rhythm of time
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After accidentally traveling back in time and rewriting the future, twelve-year-old best friends Rahim and Kasia must work together to restore their timeline.
Seventh grader Rahim Reynolds loves testing out the gadgets invented by his brilliant friend Kasia Collins. First there were the X-ray glasses and all the trouble they caused. Now there's the new cell phone she built for his birthday, even though his parents won't let him have one. But Rahim...
4568) Calling my name
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants during the late 1800s. As part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly challenge the Jim Crow segregation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
4572) Hurricane season
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of basketball coach and mentor Al Collins, who led his team to victory after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their homes and destroyed their spirits. Collins attempts to create a winning basketball team using players from five of the hardest-hit high schools in the area. Takes a look at the disaster and shows how heroes can rise from the most devastating of circumstances.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable and inspiring true story of Brian Banks, whose youth was shattered by a miscarriage of justice, yet who still found a way to achieve his dream of playing in the NFL."--Back cover.
"At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior--and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. But before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial on charges...
4574) Killing King: racial terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws from previously unknown FBI sources and new forensics to argue that King was assassinated by a long-simmering conspiracy orchestrated by the racial terrorists who were responsible for the Mississippi Burning murders.
4576) Nighttime symphony
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a little boy gets ready for bed, the sounds of a wild storm echo around him, lulling him to sleep. From the crash of thunder to the pitter-patter of raindrops to the beat of passing cars, the music of the city creates a cozy bedtime soundtrack"--
4577) Rosa Parks
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Features quotations from Parks and others.
4578) Rosa Parks
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
4579) Magic smells awful
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Just when fifth-grader Xander Stone decides to give up his long search for magical creatures, he encounters three Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns, who were banished from the magical world of Pegasia after an encounter with a mysterious object leaking green gas turned them into smelly, zombie-like, rainbow-upchucking creatures--and Xander will need to keep his wits about him if he is to hide the true nature of his new friends from other humans." --
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