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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-Third Street to the south, Twenty-Fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, gambling dens and gourmet foods. It's also the story of high life and low life, immigrants and tourists, laborers and aristocrats-from Solomon Pieters, a former slave who was the...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
206) In Jackson Heights
Publisher
Zipporah Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (190 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
207) I'm down: a memoir
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. This hip, funny memoir will have readers questioning what it means to be black or white in America.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
x, 365 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing, and storytelling,...
Author
Series
Julia Gillian volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aaron, a disgraced rabbi turned Wall Street banker, and Amelia, his journalist girlfriend, live with their newborn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City. The infusion of upwardly mobile strivers into Bed-Stuy's historic brownstones belies the tension simmering on the streets below. But after a cop shoots a boy in a nearby park, a riot erupts--with Aaron and his family at its center. Over the course...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First HarperVia paperback.
Physical Desc
xi, 513 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory's life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and what his heart truly wants, he must return to his roots. Only by excavating...
215) Pride
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride -- Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
216) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
217) The sandlot
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
219) Everyday people
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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