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Kamala Harris / by Fuentes, Sarah.;
What did Kamala Harris do before she became the first woman to serve as a US vice president? And what will she do next?
Subjects: Biographies.; Readers (Publications); Harris, Kamala, 1964-; Vice-presidents; Women presidential candidates; African American women legislators; Women lawyers; South Asian American women;
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The Churchill factor : how one man made history / by Johnson, Boris,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill factor', the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the 20th century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity.
Subjects: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Political leadership.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The sword in the stone [videorecording] / by Alden, Norm,1924-2012.; Cabot, Sebastian.; Matthews, Junius.; Napier, Alan,1903-1988.; Peet, Bill.; Reitherman, Richard.; Reitherman, Robert.; Reitherman, Wolfgang,1909-1985.; Sorensen, Rickie,1946-1994.; Swenson, Karl,1908-1978.; Tyler, Ginny.; Wentworth, Martha,1889-1974.; White, T. H.(Terence Hanbury),1906-1964.Sword in the stone.Videorecording.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Productions.;
Editor, Donald Halliday ; music, George Bruns ; art director, Ken Anderson.Voices: Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson, Rickie Sorensen, Junius Matthew, Ginny Tyler, Martha Wentworth, Norman Alden, Alan Napier, Richard Reitherman, Robert Reitherman.The English king dies leaving no heir. In the churchyard of a cathedral in London, a sword appears imbedded in a stone. It is inscribed with a prophecy. Although many try, no one can budge the sword from the stone. Deep in the dark woods, Merlin the Magician begins to teach 11-year-old Arthur, who lives in the castle of Sir Ector where he's an apprentice squire to Sir Kay. Arthur learns the basic truths of life, but he also runs into the evil Madam Mim, who tries to destroy him. A great tournament is held in London to pick a new king. Arthur, attending as Kay's squire, forgets Kay's sword, and runs back to the inn to get it, but the inn is locked. Arthur, seeing the sword in the stone, innocently, and easily, pulls it out. When the knights marvel at the wondrous sword and question where he got it, Arthur has to prove himself all over again by pulling the sword from the stone.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Arthur, King; White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964.; Animated films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Merlin (Legendary character); Swords; Tournaments, Medieval; Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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An ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615-1649 / by Tooker, Elizabeth.;
Subjects: Huron Indians.;
© 1967, c1964., Huronia Historical Development Council and The Ontario Department of Education through the co-operation of The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
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Anywhere you run : a novel / by Morris, Wanda M.(Wanda Michelle),1959-author.;
It's 1964 and Violet Richards is in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. It was an act of self-defense against her white rapist, Huxley Broadus. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice, not in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find Huxley's body or finger Violet as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Dewey Leonard, a lovesick boy intent on marrying her up North, they make it to Birmingham before she sneaks away and catches a Greyhound bus bound for Washington, D.C. But desperation has her winding up in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia. Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. But she is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, Marigold has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But after the Project's lawyer, and her baby's father, abandons her and news of Huxley's murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to marry another man and leave Jackson behind. After a quick marriage, they move to Ohio seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. Two sisters on the run, one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American women; African Americans; African Americans; Fugitives from justice; Secrecy; Sisters; Unmarried mothers; Unplanned pregnancy;
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Anywhere you run [text (large print)] : a novel / by Morris, Wanda M.(Wanda Michelle),1959-author.;
It's 1964 and Violet Richards is in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. It was an act of self-defense against her white rapist, Huxley Broadus. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice, not in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find Huxley's body or finger Violet as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Dewey Leonard, a lovesick boy intent on marrying her up North, they make it to Birmingham before she sneaks away and catches a Greyhound bus bound for Washington, D.C. But desperation has her winding up in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia. Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. But she is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, Marigold has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But after the Project's lawyer, and her baby's father, abandons her and news of Huxley's murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to marry another man and leave Jackson behind. After a quick marriage, they move to Ohio seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. Two sisters on the run, one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; African American women; African Americans; African Americans; Fugitives from justice; Secrecy; Sisters; Unmarried mothers; Unplanned pregnancy;
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The Da Vinci code [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bettany, Paul,1971-; Hanks, Tom,1956-; Howard, Ron,1954-; McKellen, Ian; Molina, Alfred,1953-; Prochnow, Jürgen.; Reno, Jean,1948-; Tautou, Audrey,1978-;
Alfred Molina, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Jurgen Prochnow, Paul Bettany, Tom Hanks.Clues from a murder in the Louvre museum point to a religious group that will stop at nothing to protect an ancient secret that could change how everyone views Christianity. Based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD.
Subjects: Brown, Dan, 1964- ; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Adventure films; Art museum curators; Cryptographers; Feature films; Grail; Secret societies; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c2006., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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War / by Woodward, Bob,1943-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden's approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III. The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Harris, Kamala, 1964-; Netanyahu, Binyamin.; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Zelensky, Volodymyr, 1978-; Israel-Hamas War, 2023-; Presidential candidates; Presidents; Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-;
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Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / by Gates, Henry Louis,Jr,author.;
Includes bibliographical reference and index."A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of freedom' in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The book will be accompanied by a new PBS documentary series on the same topic, with full promotional support from PBS"--
Subjects: African Americans; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); African Americans; African Americans; White supremacy movements; Racism in popular culture; Visual communication;
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She who knows / by Okorafor, Nnedi,author.;
Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality, this novella offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a teenager whose coming of age will herald a new age for her world. Set in the universe African-futurist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning 'Who Fears Death', this is the first in the 'She Who Knows' trilogy.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Afrofuturist fiction.; Novels.; Families; Salt mines and mining; Teenage girls;
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