Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, Hardcover - Carole Boston Weatherford

Reducere. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct h...

Reducere. 2017 Caldecott Honor 2017 Coretta Scott King Honor 2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award A 2016 New York Times Best Illustrated Book This poetic, nonfiction...

Reducere. A must-have--Booklist (starred review) Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tuls...

Reducere. This stunning and empowering picture book from a New York Times bestselling author and an acclaimed illustrator celebrates a Black mother's hopes a...

The Leadership Genius of Julius Caesar Modern Lessons from the Man Who Built an Empire "Brilliantly crafted to draw leadership lessons from history...

Reducere. In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of ...

Reducere. Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford's innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-Americ...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans have called on their religious faith in the struggle against oppression. In this book the Bea...

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Reducere. A 2016 Caldecott Honor BookA 2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor BookA 2016 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award WinnerStirring poems and stunning col...

Reducere. Golden KiteIn this one-of-a-kind historical picture book, author Glennette Tilley Turner tells the story of Fort Mose, which was founded in St. Aug...

Reducere. The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gav...

Reducere. A young girl, who has just moved to her parents' hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of J...

Publisher: Sourcebooks, IncAuthor(s): Carole Boston WeatherfordNumber of pages: 24Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 177 x 176 x 15Cover type: Board...

A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin that pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this Queen of Soul deserves.Illustrations: fc jkt (spfx: 2 colors foil stampi...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Carole Boston WeatherfordIllustration(s): Full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 32Publication ...

Reducere. There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a sta...

Reducere. Based on the true story of the Rosenwald schools built in the rural African-American South in the 1920s, award winning writer and poet Carol Boston...

Reducere. DescriptionA 2016 Caldecott Honor BookA 2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor BookA 2016 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award WinnerStirring poems and s...

A colour review of John Dixon's contribution to railway, mining and maritime engineering.

Reducere. There is no better place in the world than a library. Especially a library that kids create! A million stories high? Sure. Bathtubs? Absolutely. A ...

Boy built a wall to keep himself safe. Behind it he felt strong and more protected. Then Someone Kind came along. She bounced a ball, sang and pain...

'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa.

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Premilla NadasenNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 153 x 246 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softb...

The story of Palestine's stonemasons and the building of Israel

Reducere. When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed h...

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With sales of over 200 million albums, AC/DC is not just the biggest rock band in the world, it's a family business built by three brothers: George...

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Reducere. From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the "compelling corporate history" (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bec...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, pu...

DescriptionThe story of Palestine's stonemasons and the building of Israel"They demolish our houses while we build theirs."This is how a Palestinia...

In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scen...

Reducere. Settlers coming to the Katy area in the mid-1800s found a cane-filled creek on the vast coastal prairie. The area became known as Cane Island. When...

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Reducere. Who built the stable where Jesus lay? Multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Ashley Bryan has a very good idea in this beautiful and moving new l...

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Reducere. In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colo...

Reducere. Despite the odds of Indian raids, the Civil War, and one man's feud, Weatherford began as a small frontier settlement in the mid-1800s, and quickly...

Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the story of the nati...

In Who Built Scotland, the authors pick twenty-five buildings to tell the history of a nation. In vivid travelogues, they explore Scotland's social...

A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous...

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