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Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
543) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the South African leader who spent years as a political activist and prisoner trying to overturn apartheid, and who went on to become the country's first African president.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she grows...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s,...
547) Every man a king
Author
Series
King Oliver volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he's got no choice but to accept, even if the case is a tough one to stomach. White nationalist Alfred Xavier Quiller has been accused of murder and the sale of sensitive information to the Russians. Ferris has reason to believe Quiller's been set up and he needs King to see if the charges hold. Even with the help of bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, the...
548) James: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive...
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