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First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage, Clotel is instead sold to another man and separated from her daughter.
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Western mysteries volume 1
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In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
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"Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band, and a key influence on the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements. But Poly didn't just leave behind a cultural footprint. She was survived by a daughter, Celeste, who became the steward of her mother's legacy and demons, which plagued Poly's life and scarred the pair's relationship. With narration by Ruth Negga, this film follows Celeste's journey to better understand...
825) Age of legends
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"In a post-Brexit world, the Myths and Legends of the British Isles are alive, and ready for war! As Great Britain struggles to face its new reality in a post-Brexit world, the government's affable-seeming Prime Minister Colin Dubois plays a man of the people, while simultaneously purging the country of what he thinks of as 'undesirables'. Ajia Ryker is a young mixed-race woman who in her spare time, when she is not working as a bike courier, runs...
826) Stringz
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Fourteen-year-old Jace Adams, a cellist who loves to surf, never fits in where his mother decides to move them, but after a difficult start in Seattle, he comes to realize that talent is not something to hide and that he has "family" in some unexpected places.
827) El eterno asombro
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El eterno asombro es una novela de aprendizaje a cuyo protagonista, Randolph Colfax, un joven extraordinariamente dotado, la búsqueda del sentido y la finali-dad de la vida conduce a Nueva York, Inglaterra, París, una misión de vigilancia en la zona desmilitarizada de Corea que cambiará su vida para siempre y, en última instancia, al amor. Rann, que es su diminutivo, cae enamorado de la hermosa e igualmente brillante Stephanie Kung, que vive...
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"Meet famous music star Drake! In this engaging title, readers will follow Drake's career from his role on Degrassi: The Next Generation to his move into music and first album Thank Me Later to four American Music Awards and three Grammy Awards! Drake's charitable work is also featured. Table of contents, map, 'Did You Know' fact boxes, a 'Snapshot' graphic with vital information, glossary, and index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
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Dreams from my father : In New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man -- has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles...
830) Always wear joy
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Television producer and writer Susan Fales-Hill pens an endearing tribute to her mother, the legendary Josephine Premice. As an actress, singer and dancer, Josephine was a Broadway sensation. This stirring memoir reveals how this African-American beauty captivated Hollywood, New York, Paris and international society with her nerve and wit.
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After guards find a book in his cell containing the penciled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU. Meanwhile a bold, state-wide hunger strike in California prisons gathers force. Gang enmities are set aside. Improbable alliances are forged. Activists and prisoner families organize on the outside....
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In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson's Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues of our time. This poetic, journalistic memoir shines an intersectional beacon on the ambiguity and complexity of mixed heritage, transgender, and disability experience,...
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Wilde Island chronicles volume 3
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"In 1210 AD, Uma, a Healer raised by a tribe of people native to Wilde Island, must complete an impossible task for the English queen or be burned alive, and her only ally is the part dragon, part fairy Pendragon prince who is struggling with a secret of his own"--
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the black community...
839) True grace
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"A powerful story about love, courage, sacrifice, resilience, and hope, True Grace, set in 1924 during the Harlem Renaissance and Roaring Twenties, chronicles the journey of an immigrant, mixed-raced woman from The Congo, England, and Jamaica, fighting for her family's survival. Inspired by real people and events, Grace must navigate the misogyny and racism of the courts, banks, child welfare system, and bad actors to hold her family together. Calling...
840) 21 primos
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Altos, bajos, grandes, pequeños, atléticos, artísticos... puede que los primos no se parezcan y que tengan diferentes intereses y habilidades, ¡pero eso sólo los convierte en un familia extraordinaria! Ya sea por las aptitudes de Maricela para deletrear en dos idiomas o por las destrezas technológicas de Mario, ningún primo es igual a otro... ¡y a ellos les parece muy bien que sea así! Todos están muy entusiamados por la sorpresa que recibirán...
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