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Series
American poets continuum volume No. 147
Language
English
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Description
An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre...
42) "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together--the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Psychic medium Matt Fraser, author of When Heaven Calls, is back to unpack the number one question folks ask him: What happens after death? Although we might expect a complicated answer, it's actually pretty simple: We never die! Drawing from thousands of conversations with Spirit, Matt pulls back the curtain on life's hidden revelations: What happens when we cross over; The beautiful realities of heaven and eternal life; The guardian angels who...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Within certain neighborhoods of Mexico, it's commonplace for children to come home to find their parents have been disappeared and they suddenly must flee with few supplies to fend for themselves as orphans. One special girl finds herself armed with three magical wishes, which attracts the attention of evil spirits. Haunted by ghosts and hunted by the cartel, she collects a group of allies and attempts to make them a home while ridding the streets...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded in them--a trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. This is a new version of the war we're so familiar with....
47) Happy Halloween
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A celebration of Halloween through a selection of various Nick Jr. television programs.
48) The interview
Publisher
[Sony Pictures Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two amateur TV hosts land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the young prince refuses to use his potty, the king and queen are afraid he will wear diapers all his life, until the Royal Wise Man suggests an unlikely solution.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek exhibited "feminine" qualities. The men in her life immediately...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist answers these questions. It is a comprehensive review of fear and anxiety in most tangible aspects of the modern life. Arash Javanbakht explores how our childhood experiences define the role fear plays in us as adults, how fear may or may not affect our genes, what excessive fear and anxiety can do to our brains and bodies, and the role of fear in the wake of trauma. Readers will come away with a better...