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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have. So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. There is a fix, Acho says. But in order to access it, we're going to have to have some uncomfortable...
2) Party of two
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Series
Wedding dates volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her...
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English
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This richly textured novel of romance and class conflict explores the dichotomies between the pastoral South and industrial North during England's mid-Victorian era. This is a turbulent tale of a woman torn between her sympathy to discontented millworkers and her love for the factory's owner.
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Series
The Brown sisters volume 3
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English
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Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. So she's given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's time for Eve to grown up and prove herself-even though she's not entirely sure how.... Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed-and-breakfast owner is on a mission to...
6) Dreamers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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English
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Too different to fall in love?In Rescue River, anything can happen… When wealthy single mom Fiona Farmingham rents her carriage house to widowed Eduardo Delgado, it's purely in friendship. Insecure over her late husband's betrayal, Fiona hides her attraction to the humble landscaper. Between them they have six children, two dogs-and a world of differences. But with half a dozen little matchmakers involved, can they find the courage to reach for...
10) Winner takes all
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Series
Millionaires Club volume 1
Language
English
Description
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE. Jean Travis has the job of announcing the latest lottery winner on TV and is stunned to find that Patrick Bennett, her one-time crush, is the top mega winner. Patrick invites Jean to the after-party celebration, reigniting the attraction that began between them as teenagers. As Patrick and Jean's relationship develops, Patrick is faced with the surprising and complicated issues that arise from suddenly becoming very wealthy....
11) Trial: a novel
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English
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A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America’s leading voting rights advocate, restlessly awaits his return before police inform her that Malcolm has been arrested for murder. In Washington D.C., the rising, young, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts is watching the morning news with his girlfriend, only...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told--a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family believed in her and sent her to art school and later Japan,...
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Language
English
Description
The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.
Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and , suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. Here, readers will be introduced to people like Mine Okubo, a Japanese American artist who spent years in the camps as a young woman and later depicted...
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Language
English
Description
Hoy da, saber ingles es mA¡s importante que nunca. Todos los latinos que desean tener Aito en los Estados Unidos necesitan aprender a comunicarse con los estadounidenses. El autor, William Harvey, ensea que se puede aprender el ingles mas fcilmente cuando se pone atencin al mensaje en lugar de memorizar las reglas de pronunciaciA³n y gramtica. Este mtodo prctico e informal es para usted si no tiene la paciencia para los cursos tradicionales. Las...
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English
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Just weeks away from ditching DC for greener pastures, Solange Perreira is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin on a random couple's big day. It's an easy gig... until she stumbles upon a situation that convinces her the pair isn't meant to be. What's a true-blue romantic to do? Crash the wedding, of course. And ensure the unsuspecting groom doesn't make the biggest mistake of his life. Dean Chapman had his future all mapped out. He was about...
18) The undefeated
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind.
But despite his colossal...
20) Some bodies
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Language
English
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In rhyming text, all the things that make our bodies special--from the texture of our hair to the color of our eyes--are celebrated.
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