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  • Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

    • ASIN: 1416905863
    • ISBN: 1416905863
    • Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

    If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy fo... [Read More]

  • The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self

    • ASIN: 0062796984
    • ISBN: 0062796984
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!Girls can rule the world—all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It’s a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are a... [Read More]

  • Native Son (Perennial Classics)

    • ASIN: 006083756X
    • ISBN: 006083756X
    • Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    Now an HBO Film!“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it ... [Read More]

  • Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    • ASIN: 0525509712
    • ISBN: 0525509712
    • Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

  • Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

    • ASIN: 1476777128
    • ISBN: 1476777128
    • Brand: Shonda Rhimes
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on ... [Read More]

  • Sula

    • ASIN: 1400033438
    • ISBN: 1400033438
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures ev... [Read More]

  • A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

    • ASIN: 0767901266
    • ISBN: 0767901266
    • Brand: Broadway
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate w... [Read More]

  • Stella by Starlight

    • ASIN: 1442494980
    • ISBN: 1442494980
    • Brand: Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

    When the Ku Klux Klan’s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella’s segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era “novel that soars” (The New York Times Book Review) that School Library Journal called “storytelling at its finest” in a starred review.Stella lives in the segregated South... [Read More]

  • Amazing Grace (Grace-picture Books)

    • ASIN: 0803710402
    • ISBN: 9780803710405
    • Brand: Dial
    • Manufacturer: Dial Books

    Grace loves stories, whether they're from books, movies, or the kind her grandmother tells. So when she gets a chance to play a part in Peter Pan, she knows exactly who she wants to be. Remarkable watercolor illustrations give full expression to Grace's high-flying imagination.

  • As Brave As You

    • ASIN: 1481415913
    • ISBN: 1481415913
    • Brand: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

    Kirkus Award Finalist Schneider Family Book Award Winner Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally—in this “pitch-perfect contemporary novel” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by the winner of the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award.Genie’s summer is full... [Read More]

  • All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

    • ASIN: 047018549X
    • ISBN: 047018549X
    • Brand: Kinzer, Stephen
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

    With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Selected as on... [Read More]

  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

    • ASIN: B00GEEB7LC
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

    • ASIN: 0316022365
    • ISBN: 9780316022361
    • Brand: Takaki, Ronald T.
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, ... [Read More]

  • A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 1400052297
    • ISBN: 1400052297
    • Brand: Brand: Broadway Books
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThere are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, m... [Read More]

  • Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel

    • ASIN: 1368020038
    • ISBN: 1368020038
    • Manufacturer: Freeform

    Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this New York Times bestselling two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-... [Read More]

  • The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759419234
    • ASIN: 0486419231
    • ISBN: 0486419231
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle — his devastating exposé of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditi... [Read More]

  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)

    • ASIN: 0375703837
    • ISBN: 0375703837
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical lev... [Read More]

  • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

    • UPC: 884403913828
    • ASIN: 1476730636
    • ISBN: 9781476730639
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    The riveting New York Times bestseller about a young man who built more than 250 schools around the world—and the steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met... [Read More]

  • Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    • ASIN: 1608194027
    • ISBN: 1608194027
    • Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing

    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines... [Read More]

  • It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

    • UPC: 000062135139
    • ASIN: 0062135139
    • ISBN: 0062135139
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

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