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Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Curated by Jasmin Hernandez, the dynamic founder of Gallery Gurls, We Are Here presents the bold and nuanced work of Black and Brown visionaries transforming the art world, with a particular focus on queer, trans and nonbinary artists. This collection features fifty of the most influential voices in New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. Striking photography of art, creative spaces, materials, and the subjects themselves is paired with intimate interviews...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a...
463) 1948: Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world
Author
Publisher
Union Square Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The 1948 election was a war for the soul of the Democratic Party, with accidental president Harry Truman pitted against Henry Wallace, his embittered left-wing predecessor as vice president, and young South Carolina segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. On the GOP side, it's a four-way battle between cold-as-ice New Yorker Tom Dewey, Minnesota upstart Harold Stassen, stodgy but brilliant Ohio conservative Robert Taft, and imperious but aged Douglas...
464) Sugar
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the resignations...
467) Stay true: a memoir
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tiny plants are poised to take over the gardening world. And no category of tiny plants is as welcome and wildly embraceable as tiny edibles. Not only are they cute as a button, but they're tasty and nutritious, too! In Micro Food Gardening, author and small-space gardening pro Jen McGuinness introduces you to a world of miniature edible plants and dozens of DIY projects for growing them. Not everyone has room to grow a full-sized tomato plant or...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
470) The high desert
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Russia Gate. The Mueller investigation. Damaging intelligence leaks. The Deep State used every tactic possible to take down Donald Trump. When President Trump needed a trusted lieutenant to take the fight back to the unelected government officials trying to undermine America's constituionally elected government, he chose the best man he had for the job: Kash Patel. As the chief House investigator on Russia Gate, Patel exposed the truth about the...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A scholar of American Christianity answers perhaps the most bewildering question of our time: Why are evangelicals "the Donald's" most fervent supporters? Donald Trump is a libertine who lacks even basic knowledge of the Christian faith. Yet in 2016 he won 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, and continues to rely on white evangelicals as his base of support. While we assume the religious right has pragmatic reasons for backing Trump, in truth...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine"--
474) Bless: Volume 1
Author
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At a young age, Aia Utagawa was scouted as a model, but his real ambition is to become a makeup artist. But, even as the end of high school approaches, it's a dream he hides inside, afraid of stepping outside his prescribed role as a pretty face. Then, one day, he meets Jun, a quiet classmate who hunches because she's ashamed of her face, covered in freckles. He convinces her to enter a school runway fashion contest together--with him doing her makeup....
475) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the private battle waged within it, will come up against the...
Author
Publisher
Herald Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"White settlers saw land for the taking. They failed to consider the perspective of the people already here. In 'The Land Is Not Empty', author Sarah Augustine unpacks the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery - a set of laws rooted in the fifteenth century that gave Christian governments the moral and legal right to seize lands they "discovered" despite those lands already being populated by indigenous peoples. Legitimized by the church and justified...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society. Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and...
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