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Arthur's Thanksgiving / by Brown, Marc Tolon.;
Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey.
Subjects: Thanksgiving Day, American; Drama; Schools; Animals;
© c1983., Little, Brown,
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The New Internationals [electronic resource] : by Faladé, David Wright.aut; cloudLibrary;
A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unraveled social fabric. Alongside the wary and war-weary population, American GIs and young people from France’s colonies also pack the city. Cecile Rosenbaum, from a bourgeois Jewish family that has lost everything, meets Minette Traoré, a feisty, French-born girl of Senegalese descent, on the bus to a Communist Youth Conference. There, she also meets Sebastien Danxomè, an aspiring architecture student from West Africa, and romance blooms. Back in Paris, as these young internationals haunt the cafés and jazz clubs of the Latin Quarter, Cecile and Sebastien find their budding love muddied by confused loyalties and unyielding cultural traditions. When Mack Gray, a charming African-American GI, sets his sights on Cecile, her complicated relationship with Sebastien, as well as her fierce dedication to her newfound political ideologies, are pushed to the brink. Nuanced, powerful, and sharply realized, The New Internationals chronicles the post-war awakening and the young women and men who rose up – and came together – in the beginnings of a vibrant political moment, trying to imagine a better world.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Historical; Historical;
© 2025., Grove Atlantic,
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Playing with desire / by Ryan, Reese.;
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Subjects: Love stories.; African Americans;
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Kiss Carlo : a novel / by Trigiani, Adriana,author.;
It's 1949 in south Philadelphia. Diligent, hard-working, and proud, the Palazzinis have built a solid life for themselves and their three sons. Now that World War II is over, their sons, each one a decorated veteran, have returned home to the family cab company, to rejoin their world as it was before they left. But their future and fortunes are forever changed by a telegram, and the nephew who delivers it.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Italian Americans;
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Gold diggers / by Sathian, Sanjena,author.;
"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Bildungsromans.; East Indian Americans;
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The Nickel boys : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.;
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Reformatories; African American teenagers; Racism;
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Yoko / by Wells, Rosemary;
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats until one of them tries it for himself.
Subjects: Food; Sushi; Schools; Japanese Americans;
© c1998., Hyperion Books for Children,
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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / by Sáenz, Benjamin Alire.;
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.LSC
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Families; Mexican Americans; Friendship; Homosexuality;
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Everything everywhere all at once [videorecording] / by Hong, James,actor.; Hsu, Stephanie(Actor),actor.; Kwan, Daniel,screenwriter,film director.; Russo, Joe,film producer.; Scheinert, Daniel,screenwriter,film director.; Slate, Jenny,1982-actor.; Yeoh, Michelle,1963-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Jenny Slate, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan.An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for some violence, sexual material and language.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Chinese American women; Heroes; Multiverse;
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Us [videorecording] / by Alex, Evan,actor.; Peele, Jordan,1979-film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Diop, Anna,1988-actor.; Hayward, Kara,1998-actor.; Heidecker, Tim,1976-actor.; Wright Joseph, Shahadi,actor.; Moss, Elisabeth,1982-actor.; Nyong'o, Lupita,actor.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Elisabeth Moss, Lupita Nyong'O, Anna Diop, Kara Hayward, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Tim Heidecker.Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. The endearing American family faces doppelgangers of themselves.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Doppelgängers; African American families; Survival;
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