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43) Let me finish
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Roger Angell recounts the experiences he had growing up in Prohibition-era New York with his father, mother, Katharine White, one of the founding editors of "The New Yorker", and his famous stepfather, writer E.B. White.
47) Maya Angelou
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Presents a biography of twentieth-century American poet Maya Angelou, features literary criticism of her work, and includes a chronology of her life, and a bibliography of her writings
48) Maya Angelou
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Offers an illustrated telling of the life of Maya Angelou that focuses on how she overcame childhood trauma and realized her dream and became one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian’s recounting of his experiences—in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory—reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Arriving in Boston aboard a slave ship in 1761, Phillis Wheatley began what would eventually be a storied life in American. Primary sources bring to life the story of America's first African American female poet. Easy-to-read text highlights how Wheatley learned to speak English and to read and write. She even learned to read Latin. Soon she was writing poetry, but no one in Boston would publish her book because she was a slave. She had to look to...
53) July
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Description
The author recalls the summers he and his brother spent at their grandparents' house near the beach.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
55) The invitation
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Chronicles Taulbert's transformative experience of a supper invit ation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, where the successful adult confronts his childhood memories and wrestles with the legacies of slavery and segregation that demand to be acknowledged in his present circumstances"--Amazon.com.
58) Mark Twain
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Discusses the life of the famed nineteenth-century author from his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, through his careers as journalist, riverboat pilot, soldier, prospector, and humorist.
59) Buck: a memoir
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Description
"Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachersoutlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. It's a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem...
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