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Alan Lomax - John Szwed
SUMMARY: Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would h... -
Akeelah and the Bee - James W. Ellison; Doug Atchison
From School Library JournalGrade 4-6–Akeelah Anderson, 11, is accustomed to hiding her intelligence from the other students at Crenshaw Middle School. All this changes when she is ... -
Against the Tide of Years - S. M. Stirling
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Against The Tide Of Years* continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their... -
After - Sue Lawson
CJ has been banished to the country to live with his grandparents. His attempt to fade into the background at his new school is thwarted when Luke Bennett, a boy suffering from a b... -
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been st... -
A Writer at War_ Vasily Grossma - Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor;
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before ... -
A World Without Ice - H. N. Pollack
SUMMARY: A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relati... -
A Song Flung Up to Heaven - Maya Angelou
Amazon.com ReviewIt's been a long time coming, but A Song Flung Up to Heaven triumphantly completes the six volumes of autobiography that began nearly 30 years ago with Maya Angel.... -
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin ... -
A People's History of the Unite - Howard Zinn
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version...