Young, Kevin
Summary: "Emile loves the field close to his home--in spring, summer, and fall, when it gives him bees and flowers, blossoms and leaves. But not as much in winter, when he has to share his beautiful, changeable field with other children ... and their sleds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2022
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Summary: A sixth collection of poems in which Kevin Young meditates on food, family, and loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Contents: Honeymoon rain -- Stone angels -- Low noon -- Alibi saloon -- Hemlock Lane -- End titles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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Summary: Essays, cultural criticism, and lyrical observations illuminate the African American tradition of tall-tale storytelling while arguing that African American culture and art are central to American life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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Summary: "Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 YOUDe Young, Kevin.
Summary: In just a few short years, massive shifts in public opinion have radically reshaped society's views on homosexuality. Feeling the pressure to forsake long-held beliefs about sex and marriage, some argue that Christians have historically misunderstood the Bible's teaching on this issue. But does this approach do justice to what the Bible really teaches about homosexuality? In this timely book,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2015
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Summary: "The forthcoming LOA collection, edited by distinguished poet and scholar of American poetry Kevin Young, will embrace the entire wide-ranging tradition of African American poetry from its eighteenth-century beginnings to the present, and will be representative of many styles, schools, periods, and regions. Familiar poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 AFRHughes, Langston
Summary: "Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 UNSSummary: Agent 007 goes above the call of duty and to the bottom of the ocean to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THUDeYoung, Kevin.
Summary: There isn't really a "go to" book on Scripture. Sure, there are plenty of theological books on Scripture, and lots of popular-level works on how to read Scripture, and more and more books on the whole story line of Scripture. But there is not one book that people turn to for the basics on the Bible. We need a book that college freshmen will read when they have questions, a book that mentors can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2014
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DeYoung, Kevin.
Summary: In The Good News We Almost Forgot, Kevin DeYoung explores the Heidelberg Catechism and writes 52 brief chapters on what it has shown him. The Heidelberg is largely a commentary on the Apostle's Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer and the book deals with man's guilt, God's grace, and believers' gratitude. The result is a clear-headed, warm-hearted exploration of the faith, simple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2010
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Summary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006