One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library...
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Author: Naden, Corinne J. ; Blue, RoseSummary: -
Author: Mathieu, Sarah-JaneSummary:North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black...
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Author: Hubbell, PatriciaSummary:An African American girl contemplates the many wonderful black things around her, from the inside of a pocket, where surprises hide, to the cozy night where there is no light.
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Author: Mochizuki, KenSummary:A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
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Author: Kissinger, KatieSummary:Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.
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Author: Butcher, JimSummary:The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For...
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Lewis returns to Lancaster County for a powerful new series based on actual historical events - a heated debate over salvation . . . and tractors - that causes a group of Amish families to break away from the Old Order. Two young people...
- Author: Cousineau Mollen, MayaSummary:
Dans ce recueil, la voix de la poète se fond dans la mémoire du territoire, de la culture, de ses racines, la mémoire du corps intime autant que celle, atrophiée, de l'Histoire. La première partie, Enfants du lichen, souligne avec...
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In this #1 national bestseller, "master storyteller" (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner--the one that...
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American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right,...
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Pendant qu'à l'extérieur du restaurant une tempête de neige se déchaîne, à l'intérieur du Hazel, d'autres tempêtes menacent. Iris doit travailler malgré elle avec son amant, le chef aussi irrésistible que toxique, et la femme de celui-...
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Ce recueil engagé de Rebecca Salazar nous transporte tantôt à Sudbury, ville où l'autrice a grandi, tantôt dans la région de Fredericton, son lieu d'accueil, tantôt encore chez ses aïeux en Colombie. Des réflexions percutantes...
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An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the United States Army in Iraq, disclosed classified military documents that she had...
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A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal. Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on classical music...
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Les morceaux de glace contre la paroi. Le chuintement des lèvres suçant la paille, aspirant le rhum comme l'eau d'un rince-bouche sur le fauteuil du dentiste. Ta tête inclinée au-dessus du verre, happée par l'alcool. L'odeur des...
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Iskotew Iskwew: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a statement taker and Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and...
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In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his "one true love," Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first...
- A Heaven is for real deluxe edition : a little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and backAuthor: Burpo, ToddSummary:
#1 New York Times best-seller with more than 11 million copies sold and Amazon's #17 best-selling book of all time. Heaven Is for Real was the best-selling non-fiction book of 2011 as reported by Nielsen's Books can, and was developed...
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"My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I have lived to be an Elder." The crimes carried out at St. Paul's Indian Residential School in North Vancouver scarred untold numbers of...
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In this dazzling collection of stories, characters confront the painful absurdities and everyday horrors that come with being a woman. A writer discovers that her ex-boyfriend has published a novel about their breakup. An...
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