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Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, ISBN 0312134347

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This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While rendering a complete portrait of this girl, author Ntozake Shange also profiles her friends, her family, her home, her school, and her world. This world, though a work of fiction, is based closely and carefully on actual history, specifically on the nationwide school desegregation events of the Civil Rights movement in America's recent past. As such, Betsey Brown is a historical novel that will speak to and broaden the perspectives of readers both familiar with and unaware of America's domestic affairs of 1950s and 1960s.
Shange has set her story in the autumn of 1959, the year St. Louis started to desegregate its schools. In May of 1954, in its ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka--a verdict now seen by many as the origin of the Civil Rights movement--the United States Supreme Court outlawed school segregation. The novel is firmly located in the wake of this landmark ruling; the plot of Shange's novel and the history of America's quest for integration during the Civil Rights era are fundamentally entwined. Thus textual references abound to the watershed events at Little Rock's Central High School in the September of 1957, for example, and to "fire-bombings and burningcrosses" in the South as well as "'battalions of police and crowds of crackers'" at a demonstration in St. Louis.
Betsey is the oldest child in a large, remarkable, and slightly eccentric African American family. Her father is a doctor who wakes his children each morning with point-blank questions about African history and Black culture while beating on aconga drum; her mother is a beautiful, refined, confident, and strong-willed social worker who is overwhelmed by the vast size of her young family and who cares very little for "all that nasty colored music.

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But Enough about Me: The Story of a Small Town Girl Whose Big City Dreams Came True

This funny, touching, and surprisingly romantic memoir brings readers deep inside the culture of celebrity while introducing them to a hilarious and lovable real-life heroine--a Jersey girl-next-door who finds herself working at "Rolling Stone" magazine. But Enough about Me: The Story of a Small Town Girl Whose Big City Dreams Came True
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Winnie All Day Long with Book by Leda Schubert, ISBN 0763607746

A man who cannot swim leaps off a slave ship into the dark water. A girl difies the law by secretly learning to read and write. A future abolitionist regains his will to live by fighting off his captor with his bare hands: "I will not let you use me like a brute any longer, " Frederick Douglass vows.

Drawing from authentic accounts, here is a chronology of resistance in all its forms: comical trickster tales about outwitting "Old Marsa"; secret "hush harbors" where Africans instill Christian worship with their own rituals; and spirituals such as "Go Down Moses, " whose coded lyrics signal not just hope for deliverance, but an active call to escape.

Boldly illustrated with extraordinary oil paintings by award-winning artist Shane W. Evans, and meticulously researched by Doreen Rappaport, this stunning collection -- spanning the period from the early days of slavery to the Emancipation Proclamation -- is an invaluable resource for teachers, parents, libraries, students, and people everywhere...

Winnie All Day Long with Book by Leda Schubert, ISBN 0763607746

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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, ISBN 0811212351

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell". But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy. Now translated into six languages, I beati anni del castigo in its Italian original won the 1990 Premio Bagutta and the 1990 Premio Speciale Rapallo. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem"), Sweet Days of Discipline was selected as one of the London Times Literary Supplement's Notable Books of 1992: "In a period when novels are generally over-blown and scarcely portable, it is good to be able to recommend... Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, ISBN 0811212351
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Step into the digital realm with the FinePix S3000 digital camera from Fuji. Boasting a 3.2-megapixel resolution, the S3000 delivers outstanding results in a user-friendly medium. It features a 6x optical zoom lens as well as a 3x digital zoom to give you 18x total zoom power. Zoom in on Overstock.com for huge savings on digital cameras and accessories. Features include: 3.2MP resolution JPEG image format 6x optical zoom 3x digital zoom 1.8-in. LCD Movie mode (AVI format) 16MB internal... quality bedroom furniture Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, ISBN 0312134347 Fuji FinePix S3000 3.2MP Digital Camera Girl bedroom furniture
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Stern Men

This comic novel is about two factions of lobersterman who fish off the coast of Maine. Young Ruth Thomas, home for the summer from boarding school, is the fierce champion of the Fort Niles men; she is determined to prevent the wealthy Ellises, who control the Courne Haven faction, from gaining power. Then--as happens in all classic feud stories--she falls in love with a Courne Haven boy, and everything changes. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For... Stern Men
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Daddy and Me

What do kids like to do with their daddies? Whether mowing the lawn or setting out on a fishing trip or just cuddling up with a good book, these adorable full-color photos of kids at work, rest, and play with their dads capture all the fun that comes from being together. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, ISBN 0312134347 Girl bedroom furniture
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