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Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India / by Gidla, Sujatha,1963-;
"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary--and yet how typical--her family history truly was. Her mother, Manjula, and uncles Satyam and Carey were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. In the slums where they lived, everyone had a political side, and rallies, agitations, and arrests were commonplace. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor and working people, little changed. Satyam, the eldest, switched allegiance to the Communist Party. Gidla recounts his incredible life--how he became a famous poet, student, labor organizer, and founder of a left-wing guerrilla movement. And Gidla charts her mother's battles with caste and women's oppression. Page by page, Gidla takes us into a complicated, close-knit family as they desperately strive for a decent life and a more just society. A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, Ants Among Elephants is also that rare thing: a personal history of modern India told from the bottom up"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Gidla, Sujatha, 1963-; Gidla, Sujatha, 1963-; Dalits; Families; Teachers; Poets, Indic; Revolutionaries; Caste;
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The boy and the elephant / by Blackwood, Freya.;
A boy cherishes an overgrown piece of land where he befriends an imagined elephant formed by the trees, but when builders arrive to clear the space, he must devise a plan to save his cherished friend.
Subjects: Wordless picture books.; Picture books.; Conservation of natural resources; Imagination; Trees;
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Love in the elephant tent : how running away with the circus brought me home / by Cremonesi, Kathleen,author.;
Subjects: Cremonesi, Kathleen.; Women circus performers; Women circus performers;
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How to raise an elephant / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-author.;
"The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character); No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization); Women private investigators; Elephants;
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Poe won't go / by DiPucchio, Kelly.; OHora, Zachariah.;
"When an elephant plants himself in the road and refuses to move, the people of Prickly Valley try all sorts of methods to get him to go--but one thoughtful little girl works up the courage to do what no one else has done: ask him."--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Humorous fiction.; Elephants;
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Donkey Hodie helps an elephant / by Gallo, Tina.; Rudman, Adam.; Rudman, David.;
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Subjects: Radio and television novels.; Donkeys; Elephants; Grandfathers;
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The elephant of Belfast : a novel / by Walsh, S. Kirk,author.;
"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving at the Belfast docks from Ceylon. Soon, she becomes Violet's dedicated zookeeper at the Bellevue Zoo. At the same time, Hettie continues to experience the grief related to the recent loss of her beloved older sister, Anna, and the abandonment of her father, Thomas, who left her mother, Rose. On April 15th , 1941, Belfast is attacked for five hours, with 674 bombs falling, and almost a thousand civilians being killed. During the bombings and its aftermath, Hettie does all that she can to save her elephant, and survive the destruction and escalating sectarian unrest of the city. Even though Hettie is still only twenty years old by the novel's end, she's aged at least a decade, her life and perspective transforming in tragic and unexpected ways. Taken altogether, The Elephant of Belfast reflects a complicated portrait of loss, grief, love, and resilience, and how the zoo and the city of Belfast suffered during these catastrophic attacks. At the narrative's heart is a changing relationship between a young woman and an elephant: At first, it seems that Hettie saves Violet, but in the end, Violet saves her"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Elephants; Grief; Human-animal relationships;
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Battle for the elephants [videorecording] / by National Geographic Society (U.S.); National Geographic Television.; Vivendi Entertainment (Firm);
The elephant, perhaps Earth's most charismatic and majestic land animal, faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for gold. As National Geographic goes undercover to expose the criminal networks behind ivory's supply and demand, scientists reveal how the elephant, with its highly evolved society, keen intelligence, ability to communicate across vast distances and to love, remember and even to mourn, is far more complex than ever imagined.E.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: African elephant.; Elephants; Wildlife conservation.;
© c2013., National Geographic Society ; Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment,
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Through the elephant's door / by Blois, Hélène de,1969-; Cormier, France,1973-; Watson, Sophie B.,1972-;
A boy takes his elephant on a trip to the museum.LSC
Subjects: Elephants; Police, Private; Museums;
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When your elephant has the sniffles / by Hill, Susanna Leonard.; Wiseman, Daniel.;
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Subjects: Elephants; Human-animal relationships;
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