Akim
Author
Language
English
Description
STUCK PAGES is a trilogy representing the journey of a heartbreaker who never intended to be what he ultimately becomes. Taking place in turn-of-21st-century New York City, Quincy Simmons is a complex-yet-sometimes-naïve young gay man embarking on a professional career as an urban-radio programmer at the No. 1 Hip-Hop/R&B station in the country.
This first installment of the series is a suspenseful romance-thriller seeking to expose the heart of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Experience the twentieth century through the people and events that made headlines--a unique collection of voices, images, and unforgettable cultural touchstones. The Twentieth Century in 100 Moments: A Visual History groups and explains the most important events of the twentieth century in the United States, creating a textured, entertaining, and riveting narrative. Images from and ideas about the twentieth century are brought into focus through...
6) Akim Aliu
Author
Language
English
Description
This honest, engrossing graphic memoir tells the story of professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu's incredible life as a hockey prodigy in Canada.Akim Aliu — also known as "Dreamer" — is a Nigerian born, Ukrainian Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at everyone turn. This graphic novel tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only black child in his Ukrainian...
8) Dreamer
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice. This is...
9) Consieosophy
Author
Language
English
Description
Consieosophy is knowledge through observation and understanding the world through experience. For centuries the world and society has indoctrinated humanity into believing that in order for one to obtain knowledge they must attend a school or a university to do so, when in actuality it is very much the opposite. Knowledge about anything has always been acquired through observation and one's personal experience with the actual subject. It is through...
11) Touch of evil
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife
Author
Series
Cherif volume 6
Language
Français
Description
Cherif goes rogue after his daughter Sarah is kidnapped by one of his father's spurned partners.
Author
Series
Cherif volume 7
Language
Français
Description
Cherif and Briard face an internal investigation while looking into the murder of actor Tom Duval's personal assistant.
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Series
Cherif volume 2
Language
Français
Description
Two well-off socialites are stabbed to death in their home.
Author
Series
Cherif volume 7
Language
Français
Description
While out jogging in the woods, Cherif stumbles upon a dead body in a car.
Author
Series
Cherif volume 4
Language
Français
Description
Cherif and Briard investigate an insurance broker suspected of cheating his clients.
Author
Series
Cherif volume 1
Language
Français
Description
Cherif and Briard have a new colleague: actor Tom Duval looking for inspiration for his next film role.
Author
Series
Cherif volume 5
Language
Français
Description
Counterfeit money found on a murdered taxi driver traces back to Cherif's father.
Author
Series
Alice Nevers volume 2
Language
Français
Description
Marquand requisitions Alice's apartment for a surveillance operation.
Author
Series
Alice Nevers volume 1
Language
Français
Description
Marquand is reinstated, Alice hangs in limbo and there's a dead body in the courthouse basement!