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"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The definitive biography of the beloved-often controversial-co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to his many cameos in Marvel movies and TV shows, Lee was-and...
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MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Documentary that explores the vivid life and imagination of Stan Lee. Lee co-created more than 500 legendary pop-culture icons including Spder-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Hulk, the Fantastic Four, and Thor. Featuring interviews from fans and colleagues including Kevin Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Stewart, and more, this film is the tale of one man's determination to tell incredible stories that have enchanted the world for over 40 years.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history and see how science and genealogy can help rebuild a family tree broken by slavery. Join filmmaker Byron Hurt at his extended family reunion as they celebrate the joy of family in the African diaspora and discover new details of their history that they thought were lost forever."--Container.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the greatest photographers of Depression-era America. The most prolific photographer of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Russell Lee has never been canonized for his iconic images of midcentury America. With this insightful biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel uncovers Lee's rebellious life, tracing his journey from blue-blood...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at a steep personal cost. Stan Lee--born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922--is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property...
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Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother--and then vanishes. Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn't rejoin her family in America until age...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2012
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English
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U.S. Marshals (double-sided disc, 1998, 131 min.): U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
The client (double-sided disc, 1994, 121 min.): Mark Sway is an 11-year-old boy torn between what he knows and what he can...
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Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Bob Lee Swagger tracks down an AWOL Marine sniper who resurfaces to complete his last mission.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
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Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 9
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Bob Lee Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary female sniper, who was once dubbed Die Weisse Hexe--The White Witch--and lauded...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin--his third wife of seven;...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
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