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African American women authors Biography African Americans Social conditions Disabilities Religious aspects Christianity Discrimination against people with disabilities Fairy tales Folklore Germany Race relations Religious aspects Christianity United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women United States Politics and government 2017-Summary: "From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality through sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. But, while musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV GOSDionne, Evette
Summary: "In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty- nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIONNE, EVETTE DIOWarrick, Joby
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 WARHutton, Warwick.
Summary: A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fairy HuttonWarwick, Ellen.
Summary: Provides instructions for fifty craft projects using milk and egg cartons, including gorgeous glitter flowers, fun fortune teller, cow clock, and posh party purse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.584 WARWarwick, Joe.
Summary: "...international guide by the real insiders: over 500 of the world's leading chefs, listing their favourite places to eat..."--Cover, p.4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95 WARWarwick, Mal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strathmoor Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.7 WARDonne, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONHutton, Warwick.
Summary: Because of their kindness to a small, ugly man who comes to their forest campfire one night, three down-on-their-luck soldiers are each rewarded by a special gift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1981
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HUTHutton, Warwick.
Summary: Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for 100 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1979
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Summary: Describes a history of the role of African American women as a significant force in the suffrage movement and their efforts to be accepted as equal partners by their fellow activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 DIOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 DIOFord, Dionne
Summary: "One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, DIONNE FORWarrick, Joby.
Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL WarGeer, Donne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 704 GEEPalmer, Alan Warwick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 PALDonne, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONBerwick, Jeff
Summary: "The American Empire is finished and will soon become another cautionary tale, tossed upon the trash heap of history, and destroyed by the very same societal issues that plagued the many former empires that share similar fates. It didn't have to end this way, but when the most devious and ruthless members of a society are tasked with running the system, the outcome can hardly be in dispute. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeff Berwick & Charlie Robinson 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 BERDIONNE, JOE
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 811 DIODionne, Karen
Summary: "Two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIOSearcey, Dionne
Summary: "In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEARCEY, DIONNE SEAPalmer, Alan Warwick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 PALHardwick, 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 HARDionne, E. J
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America's future for the 2020 presidentialelection. Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will these natural allies take advantage of the greatest opportunity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 DIODionne, E. J
Summary: Three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists explain why the Trump presidency poses a threat to the nation and discusses how the citizen activism it has inspired can lead to democratic renewal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017