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"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"-- Provided by publisher.
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Cuando era una joven aspirante a escritora, Carmen Maria Machado conocio a una chica menuda, rubia, de clase alta, licenciada en Harvard, sofisticada y fascinante con la que inicio su primera relacion lesbica, despues de varias experiencias sexuales con hombres. La chica poseia una idilica cabana en Bloomington, Virginia: la casa de los suenos del titulo. Pero los suenos se convirtieron en pesadillas cuando la novia de Machado empezo a mostrarse...
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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Batcat volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Batcat and Al the Ghost are great roommates -- Batcat even shares their eye scream occasionally -- but sometimes Batcat still craves solo them time. When Batcat visits the Mermaid Lagoon for a relaxing day of reading all by themselves, they discover the local mermaids in hysterics all over the beach -- so much for quiet day on the sand! It appears that something has drained the color from all the mermaid's tails, and they won't leave Batcat alone...
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