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Series
Library of America volume 333
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1,110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm ill.; cm.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate biography of legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath"--
"Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath-finally gets her due in this intimate biography.When twenty-five-year-oldJudith...
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Frank hoped that one day she would be a published author. She couldn't have known that the diary she kept while in hiding from the Nazis would become one of the most widely-read accounts of World War II. With her sharp observations, wit, and optimism, teenage Anne described her narrow world in the secret Annex, where her family and four other Jewish refugees hid for two years. Her diary wouldn't shy away from the hardships the experienced. Anne...
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
62 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of a young Jewish girl made famous after her death in the Holocaust by the publishing of her diary detailing the two years her family hid from the Nazis during World War II.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived during World War II, when people like her were killed just for being Jewish. Anne and her family were forced to hide in a tiny, secret space to try and survive, and Anne began keeping a diary to practice her love of writing and pass the time. In her writing, she described what life was like as a Jewish person during the war. She also wrote about her hopes, dreams, and the future she wanted when she could...
29) Dear reader
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney's AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach Flannery's favorite book, Wuthering Heights, leaving behind her purse, Flannery knows something is wrong. The police are called, and Flannery gives them everything-- except Miss Sweeney's copy of Wuthering Heights. This she holds...
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