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Series
Royal blood volume 2
Language
English
Description
"American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse. From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President's son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess Maisie, it seems everyone is dying for Evan to return back to America for good. Meanwhile Evan is receiving mysterious threats about her real story being revealed in a tell-all biography....
Author
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family's difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the cutest guys he's ever met. Now eight months later, Rafie's ready for one final win. What he didn't plan for is his family moving to San Antonio before his senior year, forcing him to leave behind his...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"My Divine Natural Hair offers spiritual, emotional, and practical guidance to women of African descent as they embrace and celebrate their natural hair journeys. This mother-daughter writing trio addresses topics like hair loss, growth, styles, tools, and maintenance, along with scriptural and literary affirmations. Complete with a glossary of terms"--
12) Bad hombres
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the land of opportunity₄ Two undocumented immigrants take on a simple job. They have to dig a hole somewhere in no man's land. When they discover that their two clients turn out to be psychopathic criminals, the immigrants must survive the upcoming night. A much more difficult job than expected
13) Matchmaker
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Miles and his friend Jada both plan on inviting their grandparents to help in science class, and with Valentine's Day approaching, they realize Miles's Nana and Jada's Pop Pop might be a perfect match
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"In this memoir, pioneering journalist William Gee Wong chronicles a two-generation father-son story beginning from his father's experiences as an immigrant during the Chinese Exclusion Era through Wong's own journey from his beginnings in Oakland's Chinatown to acclaim on the national print stage"--
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Voting gives people a voice in their communities. In the past, racist laws and practices kept Black American voices silent. No place was more affected by this racism than the state of Mississippi. In 1964, organizers and volunteers brought change to Mississippi. This movement to register Black voters became known as Freedom Summer, and it led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Discover the people, events, and results of Freedom Summer...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet...
Author
Publisher
Arising Together Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Texas' Emancipation Day and Juneteenth National Independence Day (both known as Juneteenth) are tremendously important holidays, but both are mired in miscommunication and inaccuracy. Examples: 1. The national holiday ?symbolically? celebrates slavery?s end - a concept often misinterpreted as ?the day slavery ended.? Fact: Texas was not the last state to outlaw slavery; 2. June 19, 1865 was the day the U.S. Army began enforcement of the Emancipation...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope
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