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Author
Series
Jean Grey volume 1
Language
English
Description
Legendary writer Louise Simonson returns to put Jean Grey in the spotlight! After the tumultuous Hellfire Gala, Jean's life is in pieces. Mutantkind is in dire straits - but there's nothing that this founding X-Man can do until she saves herself first! That means looking into her past - for the moment when it all went wrong - in a desperate attempt to protect herself and all of Krakoa's future. But what if the past isn't quite as she remembers it?...
Author
Series
Inspector Rex volume 2
Language
Deutsch
Description
Someone is terrorizing Vienna by poisoning and planting cans of tainted soda.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, pickaxes, Kelly risked his life and helped thirty-two enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipation reverberations of the emotional politics of slavery" --
"Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways...
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Appalachian literature has no small share of silent or non-discursive characters, though the reasons for their wordlessness vary. This collection of new essays analyzes characters who are unable or unwilling to communicate orally, whose lack of voice conveys physical, mental or social hindrance"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
198 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they're struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and are ready to lend a hand--but they're starting to wonder,...
Author
Publisher
EastOver Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of essays George Singleton explains how he came to be a writer (he blames barbecue), why he still writes his first draft by hand (someone stole his typewriter), and what motivated him to run marathons (his father gave him beer)" --
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to facilitate safe space conversations as a leader so employees feel free to speak up without fear of consequences.
The best companies innovate and accomplish big goals when employees can speak up without fear of judgment or retaliation. In this course, discover how to facilitate safe space conversations as a leader so employees feel free to speak up without fear of consequences. Instructor Cree Scott teaches you the skills and actions...
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