Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Publisher
One World
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
3) The message
Author
Publisher
One World
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking-expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist-and named for Nubian pharaoh-Coates had...
Author
Series
Black Panther volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Zenzi and the people poison Wakanda's citizens against the Black Panther, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels, are courted by Tetu to help raise their land to new glory! His allies dwindling, T'Challa must rely on his elite secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, and fellow Avenger Eden Fesi, a.k.a. Manifold!
Author
Series
Black Panther volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
T'Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil.
Author
Series
Black Panther volume 3
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The full truth of the People's revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been revealed! Now, T'Challa must fight like never before for the fate of his nation. One of his most trusted allies is back to stand by his side. As the final battle begins, the entirety of Wakanda's glorious history may be their most potent weapon.