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Have you ever been kissed by a refreshing white cloud? Do you remember how its caress would leave you wanting more and waiting for its next lingering touch? White clouds were not strangers in the projects during the summer months. These refreshing vapors provided a welcome break from the sweltering heat of the sun's rays beating down on the concrete palaces that St. Louis called the projects. The fluffy mist was the unifying factor in the projects...
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This complete summary of "War on the Middle Class" by Lou Dobbs, a conservative American media personality, presents his argument that the American dream is being systematically ruined for the middle class, who have been abandoned by the administration, which favors big business. He believes that it is time for reforms to trade policy, business, immigration, education and health care, taking the power from corporations and the political elite and...
22843) The Honey Jar
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In this book - the companion volume to The Girl From Chimel - Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum returns to the world of her childhood.
The Honey Jar brings us the ancient stories her grandparents told her when she was a little girl, and we can imagine her listening to them by the fire at night. These Maya tales include creation myths, a classic story about the magic twins (which can also be found in the Popol Vuh), explanations...
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Katie Woo has some of the funniest friends and family around, so it is no surprise that she has a joke book filled with laughs all about them. Her jokes about Pedro, JoJo, and her mom and dad are sure to make you giggle. Then learn how to tell jokes yourself with Katie's tips. A glossary rounds out this fun-filled book.
22845) Flying the Dragon
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Flying the Dragon tells the story of two cousins in alternating chapters. American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who never really gives any thought to the fact that her father is Japanese. Her cousin, Hiroshi, lives in Japan, and never really gives a thought to his uncle's family living in the U.S. Their lives are thrown together when Hiroshi's family, with his grandfather (who is also his best friend), have to move to the U.S....
22846) A Friend Like Anian
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Meeka Caldwell is a wife, mother of four and a dedicated advocate in the Down Syndrome community. Noticing she couldn‛t find any children‛s books representing African Americans with Down Syndrome, she decided to write A Friend Like Anian based on her son. This is the first of a series of children‛s books, published by Brown Baby 321, representing African Americans and highlighting community, friendship and dispelling any misconceptions regarding...
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When everyone in Kash's house gets COVID except him, he has to leave to keep from getting sick. Aunt Toni comes to the rescue. She takes Kash on adventures. Read to find out what fun things they did around their town. This early reader is a picture book that contains sight words young students are learning at school.
22848) Peach and Plum
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Peach and Plum opens with seven year-old Mayfair Tootle, who steps into the world of Maverick Elementary as a new student on the first day of school. And things like: Fifth graders who hog the kickball court, snooty school yard cliques, a Pop Star girl, school yard games like High Jump and One Fly Up, a dog named Monster, googlie-eyed school yard crushes, a substitute teacher, the Harvest Moon Potluck, a couple of birthday parties, and a crazy school...
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In “Haitian Vodou”, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha spent more than a decade observing Vodou ceremonies from Montreal and New York to Miami and Port-au-Prince....
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Wallace Shawn's OBIE Award-winning, never before published Our Late Night premiered in New York in 1975 under direction of André Gregory, and was revived in London in 1999 under direction of Caryl Churchill. A Thought in Three Parts-currently out of print-created an uproar with its 1977 London premiere, investigated by the vice squad for its allegedly pornographic content. Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His politically charged and controversial...
22851) O'Keeffe
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Georgia O'Keeffe (Sun Prarie, Wisconsin, 1887 – Santa Fe, 1986)
En 1905, Georgia O'Keeffe suivit des cours à l' Art Institute de Chicago et débuta sérieusement sa carrière artistique. Elle s'installa ensuite à New York et s'inscrivit à l'Art Students League School.
Georgia adorait les cours de nature morte dispensés par le fringant William Merritt Chase, un des professeurs qui l'influencèrent durant cette période. Elle fréquenta la galerie...
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Can Astrid and Apollo come up with best geography projects ever?
Eight-year-old Hmong American twins Astrid and Apollo love to get messy and creative, and their papier-mâché projects for the Magnificent Wonders of the World Exhibit lets them do both! They each choose famous landmarks from their family's home country of Laos and get busy creating and building. But when they decide to GO BIG with their projects, Astrid and Apollo run into a problem...
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A rumination on our ability to recognize our interconnectedness with all people, that in order to eat a single meal, it takes the whole world to make it.
There's something special bubbling in Nanni's big metal pot. And it smells delicious! What ingredients might be inside? When Nanni lifts the lid on her soup, she reveals the whole world inside: from the seeds that grew into vegetables, to the gardeners who lovingly tended to the plants, to the...
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Antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ningún piloto negro había volado en el ejército estadounidense. En 1941, el Cuerpo Aéreo del Ejército formó un escuadrón de pilotos exclusivamente negros. Eran conocidos como los aviadores de Tuskegee. Durante el resto de la guerra, estos pilotos se capacitaron, volaron en misiones y lucharon valientemente contra las potencias del Eje.
Los aviadores de Tuskegee arriesgaron sus vidas para luchar junto a las...
22855) The Secret Cave of Kamanawa
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A classic story, this young adult adventure book takes readers to the Hawaiian Islands. The Secret Cave of Kamanawa is a story about a secret burial cave of an old Hawaiian ali'i or chief. It provides the adventure which both the main characther, "Boy" and the reader experience. The Hawaiian chief is an ancestor of the Cat-Woman, and she is rightfully proud as she tells of how he gained in marriage the hand of a lovely Molokai princess. And when she...
22856) Camp David
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Originally named Shangri-La by Franklin D. Roosevelt, today's Camp David was a well-guarded secret until its existence was revealed after World War II. A US Naval facility set on a mountaintop, Camp David's tight security has piqued the curiosity of Americans and foreigners. Prior to the outbreak of war, Roosevelt had access to the nearby presidential yacht as a "getaway" to escape the pressures of life in the White House. After a brief search of...
22857) Name Your Mountain
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Name Your Mountain continues the exciting No Name series (#5) as the high school team matures and faces new challenges. Everything is looking great for Bobby Byington and his friend Cherokee Johnny as their high school basketball team prepares for an important game. But, just when things seem to be going really well, someone tries to take the life of Cherokee Johnny's father. Bobby is determined to help his friend's family but feels useless until...
22858) Oscar Micheaux
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Oscar Micheaux is a groundbreaking moviemaker. He wrote, produced, and directed 44 movies at a time when Black Americans faced extreme racism. This book explores his life and his fascinating films. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, filmography, and sidebars. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Index Informative sidebars Table of contents For more than 100 years, Black filmmakers have made incredible contributions...
22859) A Map You Cannot Refold
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"To like yourself, you must know yourself. I didn't even know who I was. I was a poseable doll waiting for directions: What do you need from me? Who do you need me to be in this moment? I have experienced a lifetime of societal messaging telling me that I am nothing.
And then, I am shamed or questioned for believing I am nothing."
Standing on the TEDx stage, Danielle Shontae Smith shared aloud, for the first time, her story of self-erasure. In 19...
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With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author and former confidante of Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, the official report of materials supporting the first-ever second impeachment of a President of the United States-complete with US Constitution included.
In 2019, Donald Trump became only the third US President to be impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. In January 2021, he became...
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