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African Americans Legal status, laws, etc Blacks Caribbean Area Politics and government Brown, Encyclopedia (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Detective and mystery stories Latin America Relations United States Mystery and detective stories United States United States Politics and government United States Race relations United States Relations Latin AmericaSummary: Anglo-Americans tend to lump Hispanics together, forgetting that the category covers a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Mexican culture is different from Puerto Rican culture, and so on. In this program, three Hispanic Americans-New York Justice Frank Torres, a Puerto Rican; Cuban-born former Miami mayor Xavier Suarez; and Mexican restaurateur Gordino Velasco-discuss what unites and divides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Summary: "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 ENTOrtiz, Paul
Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTJarrett, Gregg
Summary: "Now that every detail and argument set forth in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax has been borne out by the Mueller report, the author is back with a hard-hitting, well-reasoned evisceration of what may be the dirtiest trick in political history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 JARSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as toys missing from a fair, music stolen from a singer-songwriter, and arrowheads that disappear during a campout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Clark, Gregory
Summary: How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe! While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique -- tracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.513 CLAHoxie, Frederick E.
Summary: Describes the Native American political activists who for two hundred years sought redress and change from the American government, and their place in shaping the modern political landscape for other activist movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 HOXSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective, solves ten more mysteries. The solutions are given at the end of the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: The town's ten-year-old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries. The final solutions to the cases are at the back of the book, giving the reader a chance to compare his skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBDunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Sobol 2007Thaggert, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THANielsen, Kim E.
Summary: Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIEWillrich, Michael.
Summary: Chronicles how America's progressive era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.521 WILSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville's ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J EB 24Summary: This is the definitive concise military history of the Revolutionary War and the fourth volume in the West Point History of Warfare series is packed with essential images, exclusive tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach the art of war to West Point cadet
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 WESSobol, Donald J.
Summary: The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBMays, Kyle
Summary: "Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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Summary: "The idea of the American frontier means a lot to many Americans' images of themselves and their country. Everyone has heard stories or watched movies showing tough, brave settlers crossing the continent, daring harsh weather, hostile natives, and rough terrain to nobly "tame" the frontier and expand the United States. But is this image true to life? Young readers will get a wider perspective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 KEPBurt, Andrew
Summary: "The American story of blacklists, scapegoating, conspiracies, and cover-ups that have taken over national politics throughout our history when the mainstream has adopted extremist fear that secret networks--from the Illuminati and Freemasons to Communists and Muslim terrorists--have infiltrated society and threatened destruction from within"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BURSummary: Hispanics and African-Americans-from politicians to poets to everyday people-speak candidly about the tensions between their communities. In Los Angeles, Mexican-Americans resent the African-American perception of them as mostly illegal immigrants who are taking their jobs. In Miami, the division between blacks and Hispanics leaves Cubans feeling culturally isolated. In New York, Puerto Ricans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006