Martin, Rachel Louise
Summary: "An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 MARWinn, Kevin P.
Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Desegregation and Integration explores the intents and effects of both concepts--especially as it relates to schools and education--in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WINGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 908.996 GATGuida-Richards, Melissa
Summary: "A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The story of three locations in the United States--in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma--where the indigenous people were driven out by European colonists, where vicious racial killings took place in the last century, and how these places are coming to terms with the past, creating new organizations dedicated to racial repair and reconciliation as they aspire to a more inclusive, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JONJoseph, Frederick
Summary: Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 JOSWinn, Kevin P.
Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Tulsa Race Riots and the Red Summer of 1919 explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WINHardwick, Lamar
Summary: "An autistic pastor and disability scholar helps the contemporary church understand the connections between ableism and racism and how to dismantle both in attitudes and practices"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 HARSanger, David E.
Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist charts the return of the American cycle of racial progress and white backlash and how the federal government has failed to intervene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 LOWSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What SmithSanderson, Sarah L.
Summary: When Sanderson moved back to the outskirts of Portland, Oregon-- called the “Whitest city in America”-- she became curious about the colonization of the West, her ancestors, and the legal exile of Jacob Vanderpool, a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851. She examined four city leaders involved in Vanderpool’s case: Oregon City’s founder, the case judge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House 2023
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Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Summary: "A book on how Western nations are often blamed for history's atrocities, while all nations have tarnished histories. This is a thorough argument in the defense of Western values and history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Wld Hist MurraySorell, Traci
Summary: Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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Summary: An introduction to the LEGO Ninjago heroes includes coverage of their enemies, battles, weapons, vehicles, dragons, and training regimens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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Summary: "The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Move over, Jeopardy, Family Feud, and The Price Is Right - this book will be your new favorite laugh-until-your-stomach-hurts family game! In Butt or Face, weird animals are introduced with a close-up photo. Kids must guess: are they seeing seeing...um...err... the bottom or the top? Readers will learn about animals like Cuban Dwarf Frogs, whose backsides look like a pair of eyes, and the Mary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids 2023
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Summary: "Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library! Nothing mysterious about it! Learn all about how Scooby and his friends took over Saturday mornings--and then the world--in this debut title in the What Is the Story Of? series. Most kids are familiar with the always-hungry, scaredy-cat Great Dane called Scooby-Doo and his true-blue friends of Mystery Inc. But how did Scooby and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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Summary: In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2019
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Summary: "An axolotl egg hatches and matures in the Xochimilco canals in Mexico City, the only natural habitat of these unique salamanders that spend their lives in water." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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Summary: Living off the coast of California in the Northern Pacific Ocean, Lutris the sea otter shares her life in a giant kelp forest habitat with many other otters and animals. Lutris is resourceful and relies on her keen sense of sight and smell to find food and survive. When her pup is born, Lutris lovingly tends to and teaches her daughter until she is ready to head out into the world on her own....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Astra Publishing House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J599.769 PRILavelle, Kari
Summary: "Are you ready for round two of the hilarious guessing game picture book? Discover fascinating facts about animals while guessing if you're looking at a butt or a face! Butt or Face? Volume 2 continues the delightfully cheeky challenge with a whole new set of animals from all over the world. Examine a close-up photo of an animal and then guess whether you're looking at the top or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2024
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Summary: "A humorous and engaging nonfiction book about bugs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022