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257 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A guide to having productive conversations about race"--
A self-described "light-skinned Black Jew" Headlee has been forced to speak about race since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she has made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She's discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race, the reality is they want to talk about race with people...
6) Imagine
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Illustrates, through the eyes of a little pigeon, John Lennon's song about imagining a world at peace, in which people of all sorts live as one. Includes afterword about peace, freedom, and Amnesty International.
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bigotry is on the rise again in America, fueled by a President whose views are rooted in racism, misogyny, sexism, and xenophobia. His words and actions as a candidate, and now his policies as President, have breathed new life into an agenda of intolerance across the nation. This renewed struggle facing immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, black people, women, and transgender people is represented by frontline activist voices from the Southern Poverty Law...
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"Learn how to welcome new neighbors into your community, particularly when they might be far from home, in this uplifting and diverse picture book that champions human connection and inclusivity. After all, the world is everyone's home and we're one big family!" --
Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.
11) Young people
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Shirley Temple volume 18
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Believing that it is good for their daughter Wendy, Joe Ballantine and his wife Kit decide to retire their vaudeville act and move the family to a small New England town. But despite Wendy's many attempts to charm the locals, she and her family are given the cold shoulder. This is, until a hurricane hits the town, and because of their generosity, strength and conviction in the face of disaster, it appears that the troupers just might win over the...
13) The capybaras
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English
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"A charming and hilarious tale for kids ages 4-8 about how accepting others can enrich us all -- featuring capybaras, the beloved animal sensation capturing hearts around the world."--Provided by publisher.
14) All for love
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183 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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"El año escolar va a terminar y todo el mundo está a la espera de las vacaciones. Sin embargo, sucede un acontecimiento que cae como una bomba en Meriting, una idílica ciudad de Sudáfrica. En un descampado aparece el cadáver de una joven. Miss Diko, profesora de inglés en el instituto, subdirectora del coro y muy querida por todos los alumnos, ha sido brutalmente asesinada. Miss Diko había sido un faro de esperanza para todos los alumnos desde...
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"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand what's driving the crisis and how to prevent conditions from getting worse. In this insightful book, Henry A. Giroux offers a far-reaching critique of the economic...
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xxxiv, 214 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening. The authors traveled around the country to spark an open conversation that brings together the Black prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the Dharma....
17) New dragon city
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346 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Five years after dragons decimated the world, a chance encounter with a young dragon leaves twelve-year-old Noah questioning everything he thought he knew.
18) Watersmeet
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341 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Abisina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet.
19) Billy Jack
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Billy Jack is a half-white Native American and ex-Green Beret who returns to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the progressive Freedom School and the idealist woman who runs it. When tensions flare between the students and the narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school's protector. One again, violence finds him.
20) Skin again
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much -- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond skin, going straight to the heart, we find in each other...
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