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Great crossings : Indians, settlers, and slaves in the age of Jackson / by Snyder, Christina,author.(CARDINAL)304867;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the great path? -- Warriors -- A family at the crossing -- Scholars -- Indian gentlemen and black ladies -- Rise of the leviathan -- The land of death -- Rebirth of the Spartans -- The vice president and the runaway lovers -- Dr. Nail's Rebellion -- The new superintendent -- Orphans among strangers -- Indian schools for Indian territory -- Conclusion: paths to the future."In this beautifully written book, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Usually, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending liberty as they went. Great Crossings features Indians from across the continent seeking new ways to assert anciently-held rights, and people of African descent who challenged the United States to live up to its ideals. These diverse groups met in an experimental community in central Kentucky called Great Crossings, home to the first federal Indian school and a famous interracial family. Great Crossings embodied monumental changes then transforming North America. The United States, within the span of a few decades, grew from an East Coast nation to a continental empire. The territorial growth of the United States forged a multicultural, multiracial society, but that diversity also sparked fierce debates over race, citizenship, and America's destiny. Great Crossings, a place of race-mixing and cultural exchange, emerged as a battleground. Its history allows an intimate view of the ambitions and struggles of Indians, settlers, and slaves who were trying to secure their place in a changing world. Through deep research and compelling prose, Snyder introduces us to a diverse range of historical actors: Richard Mentor Johnson, the politician who reportedly killed Tecumseh and then became schoolmaster to the sons of his former foes; Julia Chinn, Johnson's enslaved lover, who fought for her children's freedom; Peter Pitchlynn, a Choctaw intellectual who, even in the darkest days of Indian removal, argued for the future of Indian nations. Together, their stories demonstrate how that era transformed colonizers and the colonized alike, sowing the seeds of modern America"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850; Choctaw Indian Academy; Choctaw Indians; African Americans; Enslaved persons; Community life; Imperialism;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7

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Queen Like Me : the True Story of Girls who Changed the World / by Pellum, Kimberly Brown,author.(CARDINAL)839823; Housey, Tiffany Tafari,illustrator.;

Queen like me: the true story of girls who changed the world is a vibrant and adventurous learning experience that invites readers to explore the courageous and dazzling stories of 15 authentic women leaders of the past and present whose contributions to the world are captured in the form of rhyme! A dynamic array of women (including Queen Nefertiti, Coretta Scott King and First Lady Michelle Obama) are featured! With bold and majestic visuals, it's terrifically fun and attractive and delivers quality content for teaching history, building self-esteem and developing leadership skills. Former Miss America Ericka Dunlap says, "it profoundly illustrates the direct correlation between strong queens of the past ... with our present potential to achieve greatness." Queen like me belongs in the libraries of families and schools interested in creating enjoyable avenues to education, providing multicultural exposure and nurturing successful children.

Subjects: Woman, Black; African American women.; Woman, Black; African American history;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Inside out & back again / by Lại, Thanhhà,author.(CARDINAL)347982;

Inside Out and Back Again is a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama, this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration. For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Ha and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Ha discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food . . . and the strength of her very own family. This moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing received four starred reviews, including one from Kirkus which proclaimed it "enlightening, poignant, and unexpectedly funny." An author's note explains how and why Thanhha Lai translated her personal experiences into Ha's story. Supports the Common Core State StandardsAges 8-12.800LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels in verse.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fiction.; Biographies.; Grief; Refugee children; Refugees; Refugees; Refugees; Refugees; Refugees.; Refugees; Emigration and immigration; Vietnamese Americans; Immigrants; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Asian Americans; Asian American women.; Asian American authors.; Asian American families.; Moving, Household; Immigrant families; Immigrants; Children of immigrants; Vietnamese Americans; Families; Discrimination.; Prejudices.; Racism.; Race relations.; Classism.; Multiculturalism.; Cultural pluralism; Race discrimination; Racism.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6

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Black American refugee : escaping the narcissism of the American dream / by Drayton, Tiffanie,author.;

"After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American Dream. At first, life in the US was idyllic. But chasing good school districts with affordable housing left Tiffanie and her family constantly uprooted--moving from Texas to Florida then back to New Jersey. As Tiffanie came of age in the suburbs, she began to ask questions about the binary Black and white American world. Why were the Black neighborhoods she lived in crime-ridden, and the multicultural ones safe? Why were there so few Black students in advanced classes at school, if there were any advanced classes at all? Why was it so hard for Black families to achieve stability? Why were Black girls treated as something other than worthy? Ultimately, exhausted by the pursuit of a "better life" in America, twenty-year old Tiffanie returns to Tobago. She is suddenly able to enjoy the simple freedom of being Black without fear, and imagines a different future for her own children. But then COVID-19 and widely publicized instances of police brutality bring America front and center again. This time, as an outsider supported by a new community, Tiffanie grieves and rages for Black Americans in a way she couldn't when she was one. An expansion of her New York Times piece of the same name, Black American Refugee examines in depth the intersection of her personal experiences and the broader culture and historical ramifications of American racism and global white supremacy. Through thoughtful introspection and candidness, Tiffanie unravels the complex workings of the people in her life, including herself, centering Black womanhood, and illuminating the toll a lifetime of racism can take. Must Black people search beyond the shores of the "land of the free" to realize emancipation? Or will the voices that propel America's new reckoning welcome all dreamers and dreams to this land?"--Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Anecdotes.; Drayton, Tiffanie.; Trinidadian Americans; Women immigrants; African American women; African Americans; Racism; Abused wives; Abused wives; Return migrants; Racism.;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8

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The missionary kids : unmasking the myths of white evangelicalism / by Fletcher, Holly Berkley,author.;

Includes bibliographical references.What do we learn about white evangelicalism from those raised by its heroes? From historian Holly Berkley Fletcher, herself a missionary kid, comes this first-of-its-kind examination of how the experiences of missionary kids illuminate broader currents in American Christianity. As sidekicks to their parents' and churches' ambitions, missionary kids (MKs) face questions many white Christians eventually ask: about God's calling, sacrifice, faith, privilege, racism, abuse, and what belonging means. In The Missionary Kids, Fletcher reveals how MKs have intimate access to the movement's logic, longings, and ideals. With penetrating research, sly wit, and an empathic gaze, Fletcher lays bare complicated emotions and troublesome truths. She investigates how calling, multiculturalism, saints, and indispensability can distract white American Christians from their own tradition's sins and failures. Drawing on her experience as a Southern Baptist MK in Kenya, on conversations with other missionary kids, and on the work of psychologists, historians, missiologists, and researchers, Fletcher paints an intricate portrait of family life on the front lines of the missionary movement. From boarding school to war zones, and from sexual assault by adult missionaries to fending for themselves so as not to distract from the work of the Lord, MKs bear the weight of their parents' choices and their churches' ideals. Fletcher delves into the "missionary industrial complex" that shapes the lives of missionary families, listening to MKs speak of the vexing, wordless longing for the places they've lived. For many years, few people sought out MKs' real voices. God had called their parents to do great things, so the kids were beside the point. But the children of missionaries are beneficiaries of evangelicalism's rewards and victims of its failings. And now they are ready to talk.

Subjects: Children of missionaries.; Evangelicalism.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 5

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You are loved : a book about families / by O'Hair, Margaret,author.(CARDINAL)663023; Cardoso, Sofia(Illustrator),illustrator.(CARDINAL)677456; Sanchez, Sofia,2009-other.;

"From Down syndrome advocate and viral sensation Sofia Sanchez comes this beautiful and inclusive picture book about all the different ways to make a family. Families come in many different shapes and forms -- but they all teach you how to be strong and show you how loved you are. Alongside a sweet and simple narrative, the warm illustrations tell their own story. Beginning with Sofia Sanchez's adopted family, readers will meet families with two moms and two dads, families with single parents, and kids raised by grandparents, guardians, or older siblings. Big families, small families, extended families, blended families, and mixed race families -- including parents with their own differences that make them unique, too. This heartwarming companion book to 2021's You Are Enough highlights the important message that families aren't just the people you live with. They include the people in your school, your community, and the people you choose who love you and empower you just the way you are"--Ages 4-8Grades K-1AD530L

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Informational works.; Sanchez, Sofia, 2009-; Adoption; Families; Multiculturalism; Self-esteem in children;

Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 17

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The literature book / by Canton, James,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)607651;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Breaking with tradition. 1900-1945 : The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes : The hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle ; I am a cat; as yet I have no name; I've no idea where I was born : I am a cat, Natsume Sōseki ; Gregor Samsa found himself, in his be, transformed into a monstrous vermin : Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka ; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori : Poems, Wilfred Owen ; Ragtime literature which flouts traditional rhythms : The waste land, T.S. Elliot ; The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit : Ulysses, James Joyce ; When I was young I, too, had many dreams : Call to arms, Lu Xun ; Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself : The prophet, Kahlil Gibran ; Criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment : The magic mountain, Thomas Mann ; Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars : The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The old world must crumble; awake, wind of dawn! : Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin ; Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board : Their eyes were watching God, Zora Neale Hurston ; Dead men are heavier than broken hearts : The big sleep, Raymond Chandler ; It is such a secret place, the land of tears : The little prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Postwar writing. 1945-1970 : Big brother is watching you : Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell ; I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen : The catcher in the rye, J.D. Salinger ; Death is a gang-boss aus Deutschland : Poppy and memory, Paul Celan ; I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me : Invisible man, Ralph Ellison ; Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins; my sin, my soul / Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov ; He leaves no stone unturned, and no maggot lonely : Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett ; It is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other : The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima ; He was beat, the root, the soul of beatific : On the road, Jack Kerouac ; What is good among one people is an abomination with others : Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe ; Even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings : The tin drum, Günter Grass ; I think there's just one kind of folks: folks : To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee ; Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew : Hopscotch, Julio Cortá́zar ; He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt : Catch-22, Joseph Heller ; Everyday miracles and the living past : Death of a naturalist, Seamus Heaney ; There's got to be something wrong with us; to do what we did : In cold blood, Truman Capote ; Ending at every moment but never ending its ending : One hundred years of solitude : Gabriel García Márquez -- Contemporary literature. 1970-present : Our history is an aggregate of last moments : Gravity's rainbow, Thomas Pynchon ; You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel : If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino ; To understand just one life you have to swallow the world : Midnight's children, Salman Rushdie ; Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another : Beloved, Toni Morrison ; Heaven and earth were in turmoil : Red Sorghum, Mo Yan ; You could not tell a story like this; a story like this you could only feel : Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey ; A historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment : Omeros, Derek Walcott ; I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy : American psycho, Bret Easton Ellis ; Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river : A suitable boy, Vikram Seth ; It's a very Greek idea, and a profound one; beauty is terror : The secret history, Donna Tartt ; What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world : The wind-up bird chronicle, Haruki Murakami ; Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are : Blindness, José Saramago ; English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa : Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee ; Every moment happens twice: in side and outside, and they are two different histories : White teeth, Zadie Smith ; The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one : The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood ; There was something his family wanted to forget : The corrections, Jonathan Franzen ; It all stems from the same nightmare, the one we created together : The guest, Hwang Sok-yong ; I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live : Extremely loud and incredibly close, Jonathan Safran Foer.Introduction -- Heroes and legends, 3000 BCE-1300 CE : Only the gods dwell forever in sunlight : The epic of Gilgamesh ; To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance : Book of changes, attributed to King Wen of Zhou ; What is this crime I am planning, O Krishna? : Mahabharata, attributed to Vyasa ; Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles : Iliad, attributed to Homer ; How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! : Oedipus the King, Sophocles ; The gates of hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way : Aeneid, Virgil ; Fate will unwind as it must : Beowulf ; So Scheherazade began ... : One thousand and one nights ; Since life is but a dream, why toil to on avail? : Quan Tangshi ; Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams : The tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu ; A man should suffer greatly for his Lord : The song of Roland ; Tandaradei, sweetly sang the nightingale : "Under the Linden tree," Walther von der Vogelweide ; He who dares not follow love's command errs greatly : Lancelot, the knight of the cart, Chrétien de Troyes ; Let another's wound be my warning : Njal's saga -- Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1300-1800 : I found myself within a shadowed forest : The divine comedy, Dante Alighieri ; We three will swear brotherhood and unity of aims and sentiments : Romance of the three kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong ; Turn over the leef and chese another tale : The Canterbury tales, Geoffrey Chaucer ; Laughter's the property of man; live joyfully: Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais ; As it did to this flower, the doom of age will blight your beauty: Les Amours de Cassandre, Pierre de Ronsard ; He that loves pleasure must for pleasure all : Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe ; Every man is the child of his own deeds : Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes ; One man in his time plays many parts : First folio, William Shakespeare ; To esteem everything is to esteem nothing : The misanthrope, Molière ; But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near : Miscellaneous poems, Andrew Marvell ; Sadly, I part from you; like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too : The narrow road to the interior, Matsuo Bashō ; None will hinder and none be hindered on the journey to the mountain of death : The love suicides at Sonezaki, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family : Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe ; If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others? : Candide, Voltaire ; I have courage enough to walk through heel barefoot : The robbers, Friedrich Schiller ; There is nothing more difficult in love than expressing in writing what one does not feel : Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -- Romanticism and the rise of the novel, 1800-1855 : Poetry is the breath and the finer spirit of all knowledge : Lyrical ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life : Nachtstücke, E.T.A. Hoffmann ; Man errs, till he has ceased to strive : Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Once upon a time ... : Children's and household tales, Brothers Grimm ; For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? : Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen ; Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil : Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ; All for one and one for all : The three musketeers, Alexandre Dumas ; But happiness I never aimed for, it is a stranger to my soul: Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin ; Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes : Leaves of grass, Walt Whitman ; You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man : Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass ; I am no bird; and no net ensnares me : Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë ; I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! : Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë ; There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men : Moby-Dick, Herman Melville ; All partings foreshadow the great final one : Bleak house, Charles Dickens -- Depicting real life. 1855-1900 : Boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart : Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ; I too am a child of this land; I too grew up amid this scenery : The Guarani, José de Alencar ; The poet is a kinsman in the clouds : Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire ; Not being heard is no reason for silence : Les misérables, Victor Hugo ; Curiouser and curiouser! : Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll ; Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart : Crime and punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; To describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible : War and peace, Leo Tolstoy ; It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view : Middlemarch, George Elliot ; We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Jules Verne ; In Sweden all we do is to celebrate jubilees : The red room, August Strindberg ; She is written is a foreign tongue : The portrait of a lady, Henry James ; Human beings can be awful cruel to one another : The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain ; He simple wanted to go down the mine again, to suffer and to struggle : Germinal, Émile Zola ; The evening sun was now ugly to her, like a great inflamed would in the sky : The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ; There are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes : Dracula, Bram Stoker ; One of the dark places of the earth : Heart of darkness, Joseph Conrad.Examines "the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 ... articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time, whether Ancient Greece, post-classical Europe, or modern-day Korea"

Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Literature;

Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 28

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