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Gather me : a memoir in praise of the books that saved me / by Edim, Glory,1982-author.;
"An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl. 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.'-Toni Morrison. For Glory Edim, that 'friend of my mind' is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, but her love of books stretches far back: to public libraries alongside her little brothers after elementary school while her mother was working; to high school librairies where she discovered books she wasn't being taught in class; to dorm rooms and airplanes and subway rides-and, eventually, to a community of half a million other readers. When Edim's father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, she and her brothers were left with a single mother and little money, often finding a safe space at their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older, she discovered the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni through children's poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison while attending Morrison's alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others helped her to value herself: to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their own stories. Gather Me is a glowing testament to the power of representation and the lasting impact of literature to gather our disparate parts and put them back together"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Edim, Glory, 1982-; Edim, Glory, 1982-; African American businesspeople; African American women authors; African American women; Authors, American; Books and reading; American literature; Literature;
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You don't know everything, Jilly P! / by Gino, Alex.;
Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born Deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. A big fantasy reader, Jilly connects with another fan, Derek, who is a Deaf Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice but doesn't always know the best way to ask for it and makes some mistakes along the way. Jilly has to step back to learn to be an ally, a sister, and a friend, understanding that life works in different ways for different people, and that being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.
Subjects: Girls; Sisters; Deaf children;
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Toy story [videorecording (DVD)] / by Allen, Tim,1953-; Hanks, Tom.; Lasseter, John.; Potts, Annie.; Ratzenberger, John.; Rickles, Don.; Shawn, Wallace.; Varney, Jim.;
Film editors, Robert Gordon, Lee Unkrich; music by Randy Newman; songs written & performed Randy Newman.Voices: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Erik von Detten, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, Sarah Freeman, Penn Jillette.A boy's favorite toy feels threatened by the arrival of a new birthday present, a high-tech spaceman model advertised on TV. Clever, incredible-looking animated film, produced entirely on computer. A grownup story masquerading as a kid's film, this story of friendship, fickleness, and the need for acceptance features a colorful cast of characters led by Woody and his rival, Buzz Lightyear.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Friendship; Lightyear, Buzz (Fictitious character); Toys; Video recordings for children.;
© c2010., Disney/Pixar ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.,
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Little Eve / by Ward, Catriona,author.;
"Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland. Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's power. But Dinah longs for something more, something different. With the dawn of the first World War, the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, and soon after, Eve's faith starts to fracture. In the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the nearby townsfolk awaken to discover a massacre on the Isle. Eve and Dinah's accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent? And who can be trusted?"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cults; Massacres; Orphans; Secrecy;
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Big Jim and the white boy [graphic novel] : an American classic reimagined / by Walker, David,1968-author.; Anderson, Marcus Kwame,1976-illustrator.; Struble, Isabell,colourist.; based on (work):Twain, Mark,1835-1910.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.;
"A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom, and his sidekick, Huck, in the antebellum South-from the team behind the Eisner Award-winning The Black Panther Party"--
Subjects: Historical comics.; Graphic novels.; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); African Americans; Fugitive slaves; Male friendship; Race relations; Runaway children;
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I am every good thing / by Barnes, Derrick D.,author.; James, Gordon C.,illustrator.; Container of (expression):Barnes, Derrick D.I am every good thing.Spoken word (Scarlett); Scarlett, Joshua David,narrator.;
Read by Joshua David Scarlett.Illustrations and easy-to-read text pay homage to the strength, character, and worth of a child.The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's got big plans, and no doubt he'll see them through--as he's creative, adventurous, smart, funny, and a good friend. Sometimes he falls, but he always gets back up. And other times he's afraid, because he's so often misunderstood and called what he is not. So slow down and really look and listen, when somebody tells you--and shows you--who they are. There are superheroes in our midst!Ages 3-7.P-2.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Self-confidence; Character; Self-confidence; Character; VOX books.;
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The little old lady who was not afraid of anything [sound recording (CD)] / by Williams, Linda(Linda D.); Lloyd, Megan; DeWolf, Cecilia.;
Performed by Cecilia deWolf.A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her."Ages 3-7"--P. [4] of book cover.
Subjects: Fear; Children's audiobooks;
© p1995., HarperChildren'sAudio,
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The house with a clock in its walls [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Black, Jack,1969-actor.; Blanchett, Cate,1969-actor.; Camp, Colleen,1953-actor.; Goldsberry, Renée Elise,1971-actor.; Izzo, Lorenza,1989-actor.; MacLachlan, Kyle,1959-actor.; Suljic, Sunny,actor.; Roth, Eli,1972-film director.; Vaccaro, Owen,2005-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle Maclachlan, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Colleen Camp, Sunny Suljic, Lorenza Izzo.Ten-year old orphan Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro), goes to live with his eccentric Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) in a spooky-looking house filled with clocks. Upon discovering that Uncle Jonathan is secretly a powerful warlock, Lewis asks his Uncle to teach him magic and soon discovers a world of wonder beyond anything he could have conceived. Lewis an Jonathan band together with Jonathan's neighbor, Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) to battle Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan), an evil warlock bent on destroying the world.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos, 2.0 DVS ; DTS-HD High resolution audio 7.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Children's films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Uncles; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Magicians; Warlocks; Good and evil; Magic;
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Night flight to Paris / by Black, Cara,1951-author.;
"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of penicillin to sick children. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of secret invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate's life, and get out. Kate will encounter sheiks and spies, poets and partisans, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Attempted assassination; Snipers; World War, 1939-1945;
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I want you to know we're still here : a post-Holocaust memoir / by Foer, Esther Safran,author.;
"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds not only reshapes her identity but gives her the long-denied opportunity to mourn the all-but-forgotten dead"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Foer, Esther Safran; Children of Holocaust survivors;
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