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Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between North and South Korea and the relationship between the Koreas and the world. It also deals with human rights issues in those countries from varying viewpoints.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender...
5) Human rights
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the status of human rights worldwide, the impact of religion on human rights, and what rights are human rights. Included is a discussion on whether or not the United States government should address human rights issues.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
519 p.
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.
Oswaldo Payá was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, promising to create a “free, democratic, and just Cuba.” But Castro instead created an authoritarian regime with little tolerance of free speech or thought....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing from his own experiences, DeRay Mckesson, the civil rights activist and organizer, offers ways for all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to take responsibility for imagining and building a better world.
Series
Reference shelf volume 87, number 3
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses varying viewpoints on the topic of surveillance with regard to personal privacy, the effectiveness of surveillance in fighting crime and terror, and racial and political profiling.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
580 pages. illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"--and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power's distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
She grew up in a world where women were supposed to be quiet. But Malala Yousafzai refused to be silent. Discover Malala's story through this powerful narrative telling, and come to see how one brave girl named Malala changed the world.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 p. ;
Language
English
Description
Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their father's brother, who had little interest in the girls beyond what their dowries might fetch. Fearing "the cut" (female genital mutilation, a painful and sometimes deadly ritualistic surgery), which was the fate of all Maasai women, Nice and Soila climbed a tree to hide.
Nice hoped...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Burning recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its Black residents and Tulsa's White population, narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's devastation, and documents...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laying bare China's repression of the Uyghur people, the former president of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, drawing on his own personal story, exposes the historic injustice behind the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
272 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic, follows two pairs of sisters from opposite sides of the conflict to give readers a firsthand glimpse of the turmoil and devastation this strife has wrought. Sunni Muslim Ruha and her younger sister Alaa withstand constant attacks by the Syrian government...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...