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41) Monsters and men
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the aftermath of a unarmed black man being killed by a police officer, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act. A high school baseball phenomenon and an African-American police officer were inspired to take a stand.
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied' for speaking out. Contributions...
43) Dear wife
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day. A day some people might call any other Wednesday, but Beth prefers to see it as her new beginning--one with a new look, new name, and new city. Beth has given her plan significant thought, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. A couple hundred miles away, Jeffrey returns home from a work trip to find his wife Sabine is missing. Wherever she is, she's taken almost nothing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
49) The 57 bus
Author
Language
English
Description
"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of young Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, survived an assassination attempt, and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
52) Dead end
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dru and Gina are in love, and can't wait to get out of Marshall, Nebraska where bloodline means everything and whoever has the money makes the rules. But when Gina has a run-in with the son of the richest man in Marshall, the incident leaves her broken, battered, and violated. Driven by rage ,Dru and Gina take matters into their own hands. On the run and in danger, even love might not be enough to save them.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
54) Follow Me Down
Author
Language
English
Description
Follow Me Down is a rare find--a gutsy, visceral, and beautifully crafted psychological thriller that Diane Chamberlain called an engrossing page turner [that] will keep you guessing right up to the delicious ending from talented new author Sherri Smith. Mia Haas has built her life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin brother is missing, she is forced to return home. Back to the people she left...
55) Malala Yousafzai
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Language
English
Description
In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
�2007
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of lynching in the South after the Civil War, including the increase in violence and brutal treatment of the victims, a demographic look at those who formed lynch mobs, and the efforts undertaken to prevent lynching.
Author
Series
American legends collection volume 7
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...