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Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (22 hr., 50 min.))
Language
English
Description
Understanding wealth in the United States--who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it--is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff, one of the world's great experts on the economics of wealth, offers an authoritative account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of wealth since 1900.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through wide-ranging conversations with nine African American women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
x, 118 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
Author
Language
English
Description
A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York City painter Duncan Hannah's TWENTIETH CENTURY BOY: NOTEBOOKS FROM THE SEVENTIES, an account of his life amid the city's glamorous demimondes in their most vital era as an aspiring artist, roaring boy, dandy, cultural omnivore and far-from-obscure object of desire"--
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An extended, in-depth discussion of the Christian faith of one of America's most beloved pioneer women, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House series books. Includes photos and authentic recipes from the Little House era.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the links between the 18th and 19th Amendments that led to their passages in the same year, sharing insights into the roles of women contributors, including Mabel Willebrandt and Pauline Sabin, in the campaigns to pass and repeal Prohibition.
Publisher
D.A.P/Distributed Art Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, surveys this crucial period in...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day, then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan, 1933. Charlie Doherty may have been kicked off the force after The Grand Central Massacre, but thanks to a wealthy benefactor, his private detective business is booming. Catering to the city's wealthy elite, Doherty is making a good living chasing down wayward spouses and runaway socialites when the case of a lifetime lands in his lap. Mrs. Fairfax, a wealthy widow, hires Doherty to prove her husband's suicide wasn't actually a suicide....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires--former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties--self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story in Sarah Carlson's powerful YA debut; set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland), alternating between two teenagers, both trying to understand their past and preserve their future. Seventeen-year-olds, Fiona and Danny must choose between their dreams and the people they aspire to be. Fiona and Danny were born in the same hospital. Fiona's mom fled with her to the United States when she was two, but,...
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