This collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist covers everything from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology to the movie industry's feeble efforts to...
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Author: Tyson, Neil deGrasseSummary:Genre: Math and science -
Author: King, Martin LutherSummary:April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city...
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Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them. Perhaps it is the faith that a tiny, leaky boat packed with refugees...
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Author: James, MarlonSummary:"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made."'Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed...The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe."'Michiko...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Eggers, DaveSummary:In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition,...
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Author: Ritz, DavidSummary:Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye's death, friend and music writer David Ritz has created a full-scale portrait of the brilliant but tormented artist who embodied the very...
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Author: Troupe, Quincy, Davis, MilesSummary:For the first time Miles Davis talks about his five-year silence, his drug problem and how he overcame it, the racism he encountered, and the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about...
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Music -
Author: Mosley, WalterSummary:PI Joe King Oliver, once one of the NYPD's finest investigators, realizes that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of--and why.
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Author: Mosley, WalterSummary:At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets...
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Author: Beamish, DanielSummary:After surviving a desperate childhood of lawlessness and violence, Alfred Olyontombo makes his way to a refugee camp while Rwanda's genocide rages behind him. His knowledge of local languages...
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Author: Mosley, WalterSummary:A ninety-two-year-old Mississippi bluesman needs investigator Leonid McGill's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father.
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Author: Beah, IshmaelSummary:
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone . A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells...
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Author: Weatherford, Carole BostonSummary:
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to...
Genre: Juvenile nonfiction, Picture books -
Author: Myers, ChristopherSummary:
Two friends get highly imaginative on an urban basketball court as they try to one-up the other in a popular game that turns into a humorous and inventive celebration of athletics and creativity...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books