Author: Robin Farmer
Publisher: SparkPress
ISBN: 1684630843
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Philly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen-year-old is young, gifted, black, and Catholic—although she’s uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes it’s black or white. An upcoming essay contest, writing poetry, and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X all help Roberta cope with the various difficulties she’s experiencing in her life, including her parent’s troubled marriage. But when she’s told she’s ineligible to compete in the school’s essay contest, her explosive reaction to the news leads to a confrontation with her mother, who shares some family truths Roberta isn’t ready for. Set against the backdrop of Watergate and the post-civil rights movement era, Malcolm and Me is a gritty yet graceful examination of the anguish teens experience when their growing awareness of themselves and the world around them unravels their sense of security—a coming-of-age tale of truth-telling, faith, family, forgiveness, and social activism.
Author: Virginia Company of London
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Author: Virginia State Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Author: Library of Virginia
Publisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: The Staff of Entrepreneur Media
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
ISBN: 1613083262
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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This state-specific title in Entrepreneur's evergreen SmartStart series shows the reader how to start a business in Florida. The staff of Entrepreneur Media presents essential guidance to aspiring business owners including state-specific rules, regulations, contacts, and statistics. Includes updated forms, worksheets, and tax information.
Author: Wilmer Lee Hall
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Andrew M. Stauffer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments to their print collections are clearing out the duplicates, assuming that circulating copies of any given nineteenth-century edition are essentially identical to one another. When you look closely, however, you see that they are not. Many nineteenth-century books were donated by alumni or their families decades ago, and many of them bear traces left behind by the people who first owned and used them. In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer adopts what he calls "guided serendipity" as a tactic in pursuit of two goals: first, to read nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left in their books and, second, to defend the value of keeping the physical volumes on the shelves. Finding in such books of poetry the inscriptions, annotations, and insertions made by their original owners, and using them as exemplary case studies, Stauffer shows how the physical, historical book enables a modern reader to encounter poetry through the eyes of someone for whom it was personal.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Author: W. Clyde Gouldman, II
Publisher: MICHIE
ISBN: 9780874739190
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Dale M. Brumfield
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467137634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capitol and White House architect Benjamin Latrobe, the "Pen" opened its doors in 1800. Vice President Aaron Burr was incarcerated there in 1807 as he awaited trial for treason. The prison endured severe overcrowding, three fires, an earthquake and numerous riots. More than 240 prisoners were executed there by electric chair. At one time, the ACLU called it the "most shameful prison in America." The institution was plagued by racial injustice, eugenics experiments and the presence of children imprisoned among adults. Join author Dale Brumfield as he charts the 190-year history of the iconic prison.
