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1) Real Hoosiers, The: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (10hr.,12min.,12sec.))
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-- Dream TeamHoosier hoops; placing the game in the context of migration, segregation, and integration; and enhancing our understanding of this country’s struggle for civil rights.
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (5hr.,30min.,17sec.))
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Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane,...
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Pub. Date
2024
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This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians—the superheroes of reading—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian…
You have to play detective.
Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary.
...
To be a bookseller or librarian…
You have to play detective.
Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary.
...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.
An unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California. Hamilton shares the story of Ia Moua. Born into the Hmong minority, she is promised...
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Pub. Date
2024
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Men’s Health, Lit Hub
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor...
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Men’s Health, Lit Hub
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
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"In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport--and a society--increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics."--Inside front jacket flap
"This...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.
Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties,...
Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties,...
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Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--
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University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
2015.
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xii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
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"No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writesthem like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields...
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Publisher
Two Rivers Distribution
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
320 p. ;
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"Surely make you lose your mind…"
So the Eagles warn us about the outrageous and ruthless lifestyle of the ambitious rock-n-roller. In fact, Don Henley could barely listen to the track "Life in the Fast Lane" when they were recording it. He was so high that it made him sick.
The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, and almost supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xx, 248 pages ; 24 cm
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The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.
Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, Jennifer exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing...
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Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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Introduces readers to one of the most famous women in the world and the idea of how books guided her life, from her childhood captivation with reading to her emergence as an American icon who revealed herself in the nearly 100 books she brought into print.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense...
Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense...
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Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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"Jason Reynolds's interest in hip-hop and poetry turned into a successful writing career. Learn about the New York Times best-selling author who has received a Newbery Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and many other accolades"--
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Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet atleast! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across the floors of her house in her socks all the way to the...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California's famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the world's tallest trees understand how unlikely it is that these last isolated groves of giant trees still stand...
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