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Author
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of black, eleven-year old Pecola Breedlove. She prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blonde, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life changes in painful, devastating ways.
4) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson assesses the damage to her Mississippi home while dealing with her husband's declining mental health. After a violent attack, she flees with her children and faces an epic battle -- emotional, psychological, spiritual, and legal -- for her children's welfare, for self-preservation, and ultimately, for redemption. -- Adapted from book jacket.
6) Tadpole
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare. They have been attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate. Now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, the bright and willful Doris Payne dreamed big. Fascinated by the fine clothes, jewels, and lifestyles in magazines such as Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar, she imagined a world beyond herself, one in which she did not carry the weight of limitations that others imposed on her and where her beloved mother was free from her father's abuse. After the...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Setting Sun is the story of the dying days of an Empire, combined with gripping family history, in an extraordinary literary voyage across India. When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue and informs leading academic Bart Moore-Gilbert that his beloved, deceased father, a May member of the Indian Police before Independence, partook in the abuse of civilians his world is shaken as his cherished childhood memories are challenged....
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxii, 218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The twenty-first century has brought unprecedented evidence of the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault. As the world begins to recognize the depraved and hypocritical actions of people (chiefly men) in power, people are raising their voices against a culture that has allow this behavior to continue. The prose and poems in this gender-inclusive collection address the physical and psychological trauma of sexual assault from a variety of perspectives...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).
Language
English
Description
This course explores Luther's theology, the circumstances surrounding his conclusion that the papacy was "antichrist, " and major issues and events in the Reformation as it unfolded in Luther's life after he posted his famous 95 theses on the door of the church of Wittenberg, Germany in 1517.
15) White Fang
Author
Language
English
Description
The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. White Fang is a companion novel to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild.
Author
Series
Music matters volume 010
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Easton's new volume in this publisher's "Music Matters" series explores the life of the often ridiculed and misunderstood country-music icon Tammy Wynette (1942–98). This biography examines her decades-long career, which included 20 number-one hits. Much has been reported about her five marriages, a decades-long addiction to painkillers, and the physical abusers in her life. Easton explores Wynette's rise to country-music stardom, the mocking of...
17) Antwone Fisher
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antwone Fisher, 25, is a gentle, soft-spoken seaman in the Navy. Unless he feels he's been disrespected--which prompts furious, violent outbursts that put him on the brink of a dishonorable discharge. Ordered to see a psychiatrist, eventually the story of his childhood in a foster home, where he was both beaten and sexually abused, comes out. Dr. Davenport argues that Antwone needs to deal with his past, find his family, and attain closure. For Antwone,...
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Hollywood coach introduces a twelve-part acting method that draws on the traditions of performance masters and explains how to apply her techniques to create genuine characters and audition effectively.
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