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"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Appearing on the shores of a small Greek island with no memory of who she is or how she became shipwrecked, a woman discovers from her caregivers that she is the object of a dark mystery, while in a London suburb, a frantic husband searches for his missing wife.
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Language
English
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME tells the story of women who are connected by their love for hip-hop music. Despite the fact that these talented female artists exist within a culture that revolves around self-expression, the subjects of Raimist’s documentary must struggle to be heard. Asia One has found a niche as an organizer of the B-Boy Summit, but longs for a sense of female community. DJ Symphony is the sole female member of the The World Famous Beat...
Author
Series
Black Angel chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Swoon Reads, an imprint of Feiwel and Friends and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Reagan, raised to be an elite spy, is torn between honoring her family's legacy and living a normal life with the boy she loves.
Author
Language
English
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Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination. Aminata is a character who will stir listeners, from her kidnapping...
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Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a popular writer on the LaineyGossip.com blog comes a book about first names, what they really mean, and how learning to get comfortable with an awkward name can become a search for identity. In this book readers will find fascinating name stories that showcase tastes, perceived relationships between names and success and whether there really are such things as 'stripper names'.
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scholarly and soft-spoken, seventeen-year-old Thea escapes from her mother's pirate ship and into the arms of a charming sailor whose betrayal forces Thea to reconsider her mother's lessons about surviving in a man's world.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxviii, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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A collection of narratives that discusses how the making of gardens and the growing of food helped ethnic and immigrant families including Native American, Hispanic, and Gullah gardeners of the Sea Islands maintain their cultural heritage in America.
11) Collected essays
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Series
Library of America volume 98
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
x, 869 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
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Publisher
Sierra Simone
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Thornchapel knows my name and the crooked corners of my heart, and it wants me to make promises that I'm going to keep . . .
When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel's tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enough—keep her head down while she works in the house's crumbling private library and
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Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 508 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. And even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
349 pages : map, portrait ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime? Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense. Over five months and 6000 miles, he cycled from New York to Seattle and then on to the Mexican border, facing tornados, swollen river crossings, wild roaming buffalo and one...
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Series
Publisher
Tammy Falkner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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***This New Adult book is intended for audiences over the age of 18 due to adult language, sexual content and adult situations***KitLogan wants to know my name, but I can't tell him. I can't tell him anything. There are too many people looking for me. He's pretty persuasive, though, and he convinces me to go home with him so he can keep me safe from this harsh city where I find myself. It's not my home. It's his. He belongs. I don't.Logan lives with...
19) Past masters
Author
Publisher
Capitol
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
2 sound discs : digital, stereo., mono. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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