A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In The Light of the World , Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at...
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Author: Alexander, ElizabethSummary:
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Author: Alexander, KwameSummary:
A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York...
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Author: Goddard, JohnSummary:
Exploring Hamilton through its heritage museums. Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural...
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Author: Innis, Mary Quayle, Simcoe, Elizabeth PosthumaSummary:
Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made. Created largely while she was seated in canoes and bateaux, the diary documents great...
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Author: Alexander, ElizabethSummary:
In 2020 after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Alexander turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation, observing the race-based...
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Author: Dameron, DéLana R. A.Summary:
DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South...
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Author: Alexander, TameraSummary:
Elizabeth travels to 1875 Colorado to take pictures she hopes will make her the D.C. Chronicle's new photojournalist. But when her life is threatened, a buckskin-clad Southerner named Daniel takes...
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Author: Herivel, Tara, Wright, PaulSummary:
In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties...
Genre: Law materials, Social science -
Author: Camden, ElizabethSummary:
In 1890s Boston, Lydia Pallas' skills as a translator get her noticed by the dashing Alexander Banebridge, who has a trove of documents he can't decipher. The only thing more alarming than the...
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Author: Fawkes, Marion ElizabethSummary:
How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London...
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Author: Ahdieh, ReneeSummary:
Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view. On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi,...
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Author: Jacobs, W. W.Summary:
Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark-by authors from H.G. Wells to Willa Cather. Before movies, television, and teams of high-...
Genre: Horror fiction, Short stories