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NoveList Series:
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Publisher:
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date:
[1992]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Describes life in colonial times, including family life, education, religion, transportation, leisure activities, and childhood
Describes what life was like in the United States during the colonial period.
11. Complete stories
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Publisher:
Penguin Books
Pub. Date:
2003
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Product Description: As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
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Publisher:
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"Discover the fascinating, unexplored history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on cocktail and drinking culture through rediscovered recipes, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Jubilee. Toni Tipton-Martin's volume on Black culinary history celebrates the lore and people behind our favorite drinks. With cocktail recipes such as the Jerk-Spiced Bloody Mary, the Absinthe Frappe, and the Clover Leaf Cocktail, Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs,...
Author:
Publisher:
Basic Civitas Books
Pub. Date:
[2002]
Language:
English
Description:
Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. In this book Bakari Kitwana offers a sobering look at his generation's disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, as well as the collapse of its gender relations, and gives his own social and political analysis. He finds the pain of his generation buried in tough, slick gangsta movies, and their voice in the lyrics of rap...
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Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
"Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California's Coachella Valley--but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates--these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they're disappearing."--
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Publisher:
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen completely at random--turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986,...
Author:
NoveList Series:
On the road volume 2.
Series:
On the road volume 2
Publisher:
Putnam
Pub. Date:
1990
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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