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3/4/2020
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Mahalia : A Life in Gospel Music
Roxane Orgill - Candlewick; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mahalia Jackson’s rise from a young choir soloist in New Orleans to America’s most famous gospel singer is a stirring story of social and musical history.Born poor in New Orleans in 1911, young Mahalia Jackson was told to "let it out" when she sang the gospel at church... |
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Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of Nasa
SUE BRADFORD EDWARDS - ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
Format: Print book
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Hidden Human Computersdiscusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.... |
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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Sonia Manzano - Scholastic Press, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir.Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress... |
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My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
DIANE GUERRERO - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black; before wow-ing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin; and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston. One day, while Guerrero was at school,... |
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Color outside the Lines: Stories about Love
Sangu Mandanna - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover
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This modern, groundbreaking YA anthology explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships where differences are front and center.When people ask me what this anthology is about, I'm often tempted to give them the complicated answer: it's about race, and about how being... |
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At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
Walter Dean Myers - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A Newbery Honor author traces the biography of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. |
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Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
Catherine Reef - Clarion Books
Format: Print book
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Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable vocation.... |
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Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song
Katherine E. Krohn
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A biography of the celebrated jazz singer, known especially for her scat singing and "songbook" recordings of the works of many major American composers. |
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3/11/2020
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Vampire Knight
Matsuri Hino - Viz
Format: Book
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Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting... |
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The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1
KAIU SHIRAI - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback
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The children of the Grace Field House orphanage have their happy lives upended when they find out they're being raised to be fed to demons. Can they escape their fate before it's too late?Life at Grace Field House has been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams... |
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Marked
P. C. Cast - St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become... |
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Fallen
Lauren Kate - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first book in the worldwide bestselling FALLEN series is now a motion picture available for streaming!#1 New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestsellerOne of NPR.com's 100 Best-Ever Teen NovelsMore than 3 million series copies in print!Dangerously exciting and darkly... |
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Everlasting
Alyson NoeÌ?l - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Their epic love story has captured the hearts of millions and enchanted readers across the world. Everlasting is the beautiful finale to Alyson Noel's bestselling Immortals series, in which their journey draws to a spectacular conclusion -- where all will be revealed.Their darkest... |
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Frostbite
Richelle Mead - Razorbill
Format: Paperback
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Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose ... It's winter break at St. Vladimir's, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy's crawling with Guardians - including... |
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Vampire Kisses 7: Love Bites
Ellen Schreiber - Katherine Tegen Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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As a mortal girl dating a vampire, Raven knows that love isn't always easy.And will Alexander ever make their love immortal?Now that Alexander's parents have returned to Romania, Raven and her dreamy vampire boyfriend are happy to resume their cryptic romance. But soon another visitor... |
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