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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case-- the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the...
44) Double happiness
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jade must choose between family and personal happiness. Her parents want her to marry a successful Chinese man and she wants to make her own decisions. When she falls in love with a white university student, the faâ‚‚cade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to crack. A story about pursuing your dreams while living up to everybody else's.
45) Show boat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narrative of the Hawks-Ravenal family on the Mississippi, in "Cotton Blossom", their floating palace theater.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's ranch. Shortly after Dunbar's arrival, he helps find the body of an old man named Ross Guilford. The foreman, Paul Kelso, picks a fight with a ranch hand named Willard Brumley. Dunbar intervenes, and Kelso fires him. As Dunbar asks around, he learns from Jack Brumley, Willard's father, that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, Louise, a beautiful woman...
49) Fools rush in
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Language
English
Description
On a whim, Alex proposes to Isabel, who became pregnant as a result of a casual night of passion they shared.
50) Clover
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When college students Marcus and Lucia make a surprise engagement announcement, their feuding fathers threaten to turn a dream wedding into a battle royal. Throw in eccentric relatives and clashing cultures, and you've got a recipe for laugh-out-loud lunacy and nonstop fun!
54) The Loving story
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted in sixteen states being ordered to overturn their bans...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1894, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc.
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Series
Harlequin historicals volume 1147
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's whispered in Smoke River that single father Thad MacAllister is a few quarters short of a dollar; his ambitious plans for his farm are downright crazy and his young son is heading off the rails. This family needs a woman's touch! But the arrival of Leah Cameron, Thad's mail-order bride, causes a ripple of disapproval. Oregon is a far cry from China, and to make her dream of family come true, Leah will have to win over the townsfolk and unlock...
58) Darling
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"...I knew she was trouble from the moment I saw her. I felt it as she stood in the doorway that day: disaster. Not just because she was so different, that skin and that hair, as different from me as it's possible to be. There was something wrong about her. Wrong for us. It was never going to work. Now she is dead and only I am left to love him. She is dead, and it's all my fault..."- Amazon.com
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