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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Black History Month Movies
Celebrating Black Creators
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HPL Black History Month - Film Directors
Celebrating Black Creators
High School Films
HPL Black History Month - Film Directors
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
This lushly photographed home design book offers an intimate tour through rustic modern residences across California and the Mountain West.
Following their acclaimed volume American Rustic, design writer Chase Reynolds Ewald and photographer Audrey Hall have teamed up once again to explore fifteen Western homes with a fresh take on rustic style. Here you'll find contemporary approaches to traditional log cabins, sustainable projects, artist studios,...
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chicago is famously a city of neighborhoods. Seventy-seven of them, formally; more than 200 in subjective, ever-changing fact. But what does that actually mean? The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook, the latest in Belt's series of idiosyncratic city guides (after Cleveland and Detroit), aims to explore community history and identity in a global city through essays, poems, photo essays, and art articulating the lived experience of its residents. Edited...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Exiled in London for four years, former counter terrorist unit agent Jack Bauer must spring into action to try to save U.S. President James Heller. In retribution for a drone strike he ordered, Heller sits in the crosshairs of the window of an al-Qaeda leader. Along the way, Jack faces his ex-love, Heller's daughter Audrey, who's married to chief of staff Mark Boudreau. Teaming with CTU operative-turned-hackivitst Chloe O'Brian, Jack risks everything...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Language
English
Description
This book contains 200 interviews with women from around the world, from actresses, to social activists, politicians, artists, and more, accompanied by beautiful photographic portraits specially commissioned for this book.--
Actresses, social activists, politicians, artists-- women from around the world share their stories of generosity, courage, love, loss, redemption and success through a question-and-answer format. The one-page interviews are...
Publisher
Binge Box
Language
English
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Description
Just mercy: A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
The hate u give:...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An up-close look at the remarkable, distinctive bison and its cultural significance in the American West. The first book of its kind, Bison: Portrait of an Icon tells the story of the bison-its history, majesty, cultural significance, and comeback story-through the stunning, dramatic photography of Audrey Hall. Even more, woven throughout these visually captivating photographs is an extended essay by author Chase Reynolds Ewald. Brought back from...
8) Oppenheimer
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous figure. First, news of successful fission experiments in...