Anika Noni Rose
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
Series
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mitch Albom has a pretty great life. He lives in Detroit and is happily married, he's an award-winning sportswriter, a must-read newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a radio and television broadcaster. Then two men come into his life, and he realizes something's missing. Rabbi Albert Lewis presides over a thriving synagogue in a comfortable New Jersey suburb, and pastor Henry Covington, a recovering drug user and dealer, preaches to the poor and homeless...
4) Dreamgirls
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams....
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences, DVD video ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family from Flint, Michigan, are changed drastically as the result of a trip to visit Grandma Sands in Birmingham, Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world"--Container.
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Pub. Date
2023
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Read by Tony-winning actress Anika Noni Rose, voice of Princess Tiana in Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
In this lyrical novel that will appeal to fans of Meg Medina, Maya turns to her trusty "wheel of fortunes" for guidance on the toughest questions—like why her best friend suddenly feels far away, or when her daddy will move back home. But can Maya find the courage to write her own fortune?
Maya
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Set between the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper and its upcoming sequel Shadowhouse Fall, this novella of mystery, love and loss will draw you deep into Daniel José Older's magical Brooklyn."A Brooklyn with a heart that pounds as mightily as the characters Older has created." — Bustle"The perfect sequelita to #Shadowshaper." — Black Girl NerdsTrying to shake off the strange malaise that
...Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Magnificent." — Holly Black, New York Times Book ReviewCome to the crossroads, to the crossroads comeSierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears . . . Well, something more sinister than the usual...
13) Symbiosis
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Series
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New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone takes Shuri to uncharted parts of Wakanda in this original adventure
The royal palace of Wakanda is one of, if not the most, secure facilities on this planet - or any other. So, the anxiety Shuri feels when she’s jolted out of sleep by the queen mother with the news that someone attempted to break into the palace - and succeeded - is significant. And as quickly as they broke in, they vanished.
The search...
14) The Vanished
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Series
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With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding her dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training.
Soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the world going missing. A young environmental scientist in Kenya, a French physics prodigy -- the list of the...
16) Roots
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
17) Legacy
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The epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher trilogy!
A masterful conclusion to his evocative and captivating Shadowshaper Cypher series in a finale of searing rebellion, the power of fate, and a magic unlike anything you've ever imagined.
18) Dead Light March
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Mina Satorius, a classmate of Sierra and her crew, is being drawn deeper into the light of the Sorrows' world. Sierra's brother, Juan, isn't quite sure what to do with his band's latest song-it has an actual melody!-but maybe it'll impress his brand-new, out-of-the-blue super-secret crush. And Sierra herself is grappling with the new powers that have made her head of the shadowshapers...and what that means for her life and those around her. The stories...
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There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story.
Spanning two hundred years-from...