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-- Sixteen nineteen project[2021]., One World Call No: 973 Six Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains a collection of essays, poems, and short fiction examining the legacy of slavery in the United States and how slavery has influenced politics, music, citizenship, religion, and our democracy. Includes black-and-white photographs.
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1992., Penguin Books Call No: Historical Fic Silko Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Through the violent lives of Lecha's extended family, a many-layered narrative unfolds to tell the magnificent, tragic, and unforgettable story of the clash of two civilizations.
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2012., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--
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2012., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--
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2019., Riverhead Books Call No: HI-INT 302.2 MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread. Because Internet is essential reading for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are"--
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-- Between the world & me[2015]., Spiegel & Grau Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF COA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? ... Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--Provided by publisher.
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[2019]., Bloomsbury Publishing Call No: 305.48 Hil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a narrative in verse of the history of black women facing chains and incarceration, from the life of Harriet Tubman up to the tragic suicide of Sandra Bland in prison in 2015, highlighting the unique experience black women have faced in America throughout its history, from slavery to the Jim Crow era and up to the modern Black Lives Matter movement.
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2021., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books Call No: 811.54 Nye Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Collection of eighty-four poems by the author that explore stories of discarded rubbish, ignored persons, and trashy talk.
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2012., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Science Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Cover image Summary Note: Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle. (Ethnic Diversity).
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c2012, Greenhaven Press Call No: JNF051110 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints seriesSummary Note: Contains twenty-one essays that debate the scientific, moral, and ethical issues surrounding the prospect of human and animal cloning.
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[2020]., Preschool, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: E JOH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The Couch Potato has everything he needs within reach of his sunken couch cushion. But when the electricity goes out, Couch Potato is forced to peel himself away from the comforts of his living room and venture outside. And when he does, he realizes fresh air and sunshine could be just the things he needs ..."--
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2020., Adolescent, Flatiron Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Daud Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Amani, the body double for Princess Maram, is kept isolated with the threat of her family's safety held over her head. When her connection to the rebels trying to overthrow the ruling family are exposed, she breaks Maram's trust. Although Maram could have Amani executed for treason, instead she makes a proposal: Amani will take her place during the public festivities celebrating Maram's wedding to Idris, and Maram will keep Amani's rebel secrets. While Amani navigates the dangerous court for the princess--and fights her love for Idris--a plan forms in her mind, one that could help the rebels save her world. But if it fails, it will destroy all those she loves.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Reynolds Edition: First edition. Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The night his best friend, Q, dies, Jamal hadn't been friends with him for two years because Jamal blames Q for the accident that killed his parents. A new technology allows Q to be reanimated for a few weeks before dying permanently, but Q doesn't know that he died or that Jamal tried to save him or that he's about to die again. Q's mom forbids anyone from telling Q the truth so that he can enjoy his last few weeks. Jamal realizes that he has a second chance to make things right, but how can he fix things if he can't tell Q the truth?
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[2021]., Adolescent, Entangled Teen Call No: Dystopian Fic Chisholm Edition: First edition. Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Teenager Eve Hamilton lives on an Earth that four generations ago became uninhabitable, the ground outside barren and the sun to hot to live under. Forced to live in the underground Compound Eleven, Eve and the others on her floor fight for their survival, while those at the very lowest levels are the slaves of the new order--at the top are the gilded offices of the elite. Things begin to change when Eve's newest fight ring opponent turns out to be a mysterious boy from that top floor, and in meeting him, Eve begins to see a way out to fight for her freedom.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: JUV053000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
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c2012., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Science Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Elliot North fights to save her family's land and her own heart in this post-apocalyptic reimaging of Jane Austen's Persuasion"--Provided by publisher.
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c2012., Balzer + Bray Call No: DYSTOPIA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Elliot North fights to save her family's land and her own heart in this post-apocalyptic reimaging of Jane Austen's Persuasion"--Provided by publisher.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Science Fiction FIC CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?"--Provided by publisher.
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[2014]., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: DYSTOPIA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Testing Volume: bk 3Summary Note: "The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Great big boomBy Winick, Judd[2017]., Juvenile, Random House Call No: GR 741.5 Win Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hilo and DJ, with the help of Polly, the magical warrior cat, travel through a mysterious portal and battle bad guys, face disgusting food, an angry mom, and powerful magic to save their friend Gina.