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1) Reckoning
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues -- political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred....
Author
Language
English
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Additional New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: December 19, 2022
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: June 4, 2023
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: June 4, 2023
Description
"A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
4) The deluge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
880 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's journey after the miracle, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability. Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On July 7, 2019, Megan Rapinoe ran out onto the field to play in her third Women's World Cup final. Determined to succeed after having to sit out of the semifinals due to an injury, Megan scored the first goal of the match. Thanks to this goal, Team USA won the Women's World Cup, and Megan added yet another victory to her impressive record. In her career, Megan has won Olympic gold medals, several World Cup trophies, ESPY Awards, and more. Not only...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a centre of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was...
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring and empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to be Bystanders, the memoir by Women's March coorganizer and activist Linda Sarsour.You can count on me, your Palestinian Muslim sister, to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the streets, and keep my head held high because I am not afraid. On January 17, 2017, Linda Sarsour stood in the National Mall to deliver a speech that would go down in history. A crowd of over 470,000...
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (293 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A five-part docu-series following a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project. The fastest-growing super PAC in America takes on the task of "saving democracy" and defeating their own party's sitting president, Donald Trump. While working to accomplish their stated goal of "defeating Trumpism," the group is shaken by internal upheaval, a sexual harassment scandal, and a tidal wave of negative press....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxii, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa se respiraba la vitalidad y la creatividad características...
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the powerful, New York Times bestselling account of growing up Black and female in America, completely rewritten with new stories for young readers. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvii, 251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...
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