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PDF version of the popular consumer magazine with information on hundreds of consumer products and articles include images, graphs, and charts in full-color from 1991 to the current issue.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply...
823) Meet the sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes Meet the Sky, the story of Sophie, whose family tragedies have made her crave stability, control, and safety. But when a hurricane threatens her home on the Outer Banks, Sophie winds up trapped on the island with Finn Sanders, the one person who could show her how to love and live life again.
The accident caused Sophie's dad to walk out of her life, and left her older sister, Meredith, barely able to walk...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When recent Harvard grad Helen Zuman moved to Zendik Farm in 1999, she was thrilled to discover that the Zendiks used go-betweens to arrange sexual assignations, or "dates," in cozy shacks just big enough for a double bed and a nightstand. Here, it seemed, she could learn an honest version of the mating dance-- and form a union free of "Deathculture" lies. No one spoke the truth: Arol, the Farm's matriarch, crushed any love that threatened her hold...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the saga of the Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in the early 1960s to life. Readers will learn about the four brave college students who started it all, as well as the many who came after. These events changed the world. The photographer who took the photographs shown in this book is now in his 90s, but he agreed to an exclusive interview for this book."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A barbeque expert and pitmaster shares the history, tradition, and his own methods of whole-hog barbeque and the essential dishes and sides to be made from it, including baby back ribs, smoked pork chops, backyard brisket, and barbequed chicken.
In 1991 Ed Mitchell drove to the nearby Piggly Wiggly, bought a thirty-five-pound pig (that's a small one), and fired up the coals. That was the start of his barbeque business. Now ed is known simply as "the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 522 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm + 1 foldout map.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Includes flexible itineraries, historic civil rights sites, the culture of the movement, expert insight, travel tools, and detailed coverage of Charleston, Atlanta, Selma to Montgomery, Birmingham,...
831) Shipwrecked: a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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