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Summary: "In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.68 BALKix, Paul
Summary: "A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, ROBERT DE KIXKix, Paul
Summary: It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1 KIXStanley, Bob
Summary: "Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars--and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6409 STAStanley, Diane
Summary: "A non-fiction look at how activists and artists throughout history have used peaceful protests to change the world for the better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.6 STARobinson, Stephen
Summary: Shanghai 1937. As invading Japanese troops are poised to capture one of the world's greatest cities, the Chinese Army begins to retreat - except for one battalion that conducts an epic last stand inside Sihang Warehouse. The bravery of these soldiers gave rise to the legend of the 'Eight Hundred Heroes', an enduring myth that echoes the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae and the Alamo in Texas. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Exisle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.132 ROBLane, Kit
Summary: There were more than 20,000 people living in Detroit, and Michigan had already been a state for ten years when the first permanent white settlers arrived in 1847 at the head of Grand Traverse Bay, the future site of Traverse City. The draw was the magnificent stands of white pine lining the banks of a river which would later be called the Boardman. By the 1890s all of the easy pine had been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Press 2014
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.46 LANMacQuarrie, Kim.
Summary: In 1532, the fifty-four year old Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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Summary: "Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.8097 KELGhattas, Kim
Summary: "The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 GHAWickens, Kim
Summary: "The dramatic true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous, Civil War-era South, despite going nearly blind, and became the most successful sire in American racing history. The early days of American horse-racing were grueling. Four-mile heats-races four miles long, run two or three times in succession!-were the norm, rewarding horses who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798.4 WICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Sports WickensWilliams, Yohuru R.
Summary: "An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: "In 1947, black baseball player Jackie Robinson broke through Major League Baseball's color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Robinson himself, his wife, Rachel, and broadcaster Red Barber. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.357092 HARNielsen, 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 NIELiu, Bin
Summary: Kites and China are practically synonymous, since these childhood toys were originally invented there before becoming popular around the world. For over 2000 years, kites have been a common sight in China, from the imperial court to the common people, and over that time period the craftsmanship of the kite has been perfected-and includes a diversity and richness of styles. In Chinese Kites,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Better Link Press 2015