Bella, Timothy

Summary: The definitive biography of Charles Barkley exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career, and his enduring legacy in American pop culture.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARKLEY BEL

DePaulo, Bella M.

Summary: "A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America. Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our "lifespaces"--the way we live and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books/Beyond Words 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 DEP

Carolan, Michael S.

Summary: Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn't own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all of his equipment. Josh has a healthy income and feels like he's made it. In The Food Sharing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1973 CAR

Magoon, Kekla

Summary: "In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 MAG

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Dawson, Keila V.

Summary: "A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Beaming Books] 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 DAW

Feathers, Beka

Summary: "Why the people? Is democracy actually the best form of government? Does it ever work like it's supposed to? Join Lin and Julie as they wonder aloud how America can ever be a democracy when citizens seem to disagree about everything. With them, we are whisted through political history, journeying through different systems of power, including monarchy, theocracy, dictatorship, and oligarchy....

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 FEA

Smith, Jay M.

Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMI

Stahr, Celia

Summary: "The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAHLO, FRIDA STA

Dallas, Joe

Summary: "You've based your understanding of today's sensitive social issues on the Bible's truth. Mainstream culture not only sees these issues differently but calls you bigoted for rejecting views they've deemed self-evident. So how do you witness Christ's love to those ready to write you off as hateful? Christians in a Cancel Culture breaks down how you can speak wisdom about politically charged and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 DAL

Philip, Leila

Summary: "In the rich naturalist tradition of H Is for Hawk and The Soul of an Octopus, Beaverland tells the tumultuous, eye-opening story of how beavers and the beaver fur trade shaped America's history, culture, and environment. Before the American empires of steel and coal and oil, before the railroads, there was the empire of fur. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.3 PHI

Shammas, Carole.

Contents: Introduction: The History of Inheritance in America -- Part One: Inheritance under Family Capitalism -- 1. English Inheritance Law and Its Transfer to the Colonies -- 2. Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism -- 3. Tension in the System: Changes and Attempted Changes in Postrevolutionary Inheritance Law -- Part Two: Family, Property, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism -- 4....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Press 1997

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Shammas