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African American families African American families Fiction Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) 1813-1897 Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) 1813-1897 Fiction Life change events Juvenile fiction Social justice Social justice Fiction Teenage girls Teenage girls Fiction Young adult fictionSummary: Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man to be his friend. Sean is young, gay, and white. Ernesto, portly, straight, and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAPRandis, K. L.
Summary: Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANPink, Randi
Summary: Ruth Fitz is surrounded by activism. Her mother is a senator who frequently appears on CNN as a powerful Black voice fighting for legislative social change within the Black community. Her father, a professor of African American history, is a walking encyclopedia, spouting off random dates and events. And her beloved older sister, Virginia, is a natural activist, steadily gaining notoriety...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022