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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died of their wounds, the cold, and most of all, starvation. The assembled musicians--scrounged from frontline units and military bands, for only twenty of the orchestra's...
1302) Moll Flanders
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Moll is a headstrong woman whose lowly station in 18th century London leaves her in the most dire of circumstances forcing her into a lifestyle that could easily break her spirit. Her story involves husbands and numerous lovers, shocking family secrets, and travels to bustling London and the New World's Virginia. Moll's dangerous misdeeds stretch from sexual adventures to criminal acts, leaving her with a price on her head as she strives to triumph...
1303) Home fires: Season 2
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiv, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Nestled in the Golden Triangle of China, Burma, and Nepal, the Wa nation has existed and thrived for over five decades. Like mountain peoples from Chechnya to the Ozarks, the Wa like to do things their own way. A tribal authority called the United Wa State Army (or UWSA) controls their native terrain. The UWSA makes laws, defends the motherland, and builds roads and schools. It even issues driver's licenses. In every sense, it is a government. And...
Author
Series
Monstress volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Maika travels to the neutral city of Pontus in search of temporary refuge.
1308) Skin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is an exploration of the world-changing activism and potential of the largest youth generation in history. The film shows examples of young leaders working to revolutionize systems that have failed their generation. It paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today's youth can solve global political and environmental crises
1310) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
x, 468 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...
1311) Woman, life, freedom
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
268 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Description
"On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women...
1314) Black butler: XV
Author
Series
Black butler volume 15
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"When students fail to return home from an English boarding school that numbers several elite bloodlines among its student body, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his indomitable butler, Sebastian, infiltrate the lush grounds and stately halls of this distinguished house of learning at Her Majesty's behest. The butler takes on the role of tutor, his master that of student -- parts to which both are more than just a little accustomed. As their dorm lives of...
1315) Crude: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Description
"A graphic novel exploring Texaco's involvement in the Amazon, as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region's inhabitants, from the perspective of Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo"--
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