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The Orange Houses
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Paul Griffin |
Meet Tamika Sykes - Mik to her friends (if she had any). She's hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks for… |
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Diamonds in the Shadow
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Caroline B. Cooney |
THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refu… |
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Piedras Ensangrentadas
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Donna Leon |
Una fría noche, poco antes de Navidad, un vendedor ambulante africano es asesinado mientras intenta vender imitaciones de bolsos de diseño a unos turistas. ¿Por qué querría alguien matar a un inmigra… |
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The new African Americans
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Brent K. Ashabranner |
Looks at Africans who have immigrated to the United States since the 1890s, examining who they are, why they came, how American laws work for and against them, and how they have fared. |
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Africans in America
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Catherine Reef |
Describes the spread of Africans to the western hemisphere and the influences and development of their culture. |
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Vindens son
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Henning Mankell |
In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a youn… |
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The Negro speaks of rivers
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Langston Hughes |
The famous poem, taken from The collected poems of Langston Hughes (c1994), illustrated with watercolors. |
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Shadow
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Blaise Cendrars,Marcia Brown |
Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller. |
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Dear Baobab
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Cheryl Foggo |
Maiko has left his village in Tanzania far behind, moving to North America with his aunt and uncle. When he thinks of home he thinks of the large Baobab at the centre of the village. Maiko adopts the… |
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Ghana must go
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Taiye Selasi,Taiye Selasi |
"Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing togethe… |
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Other routes
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Tabish Khair |
Includes primary source material. |
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Ballerina dreams
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Michaela DePrince |
"At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to… |
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Sous l'arbre à palabres, mon grand-père disait--
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Boucar Diouf |
Une quarantaine de contes et d'anecdotes à saveur autobiographique, acompagnés de proverbes africains : un délicieux mélange de tendresse et d'humour. [SDM]. |
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Les étrangers illégaux à la recherche de papiers
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Ange Bergson Lendja Ngnemzue |
Ce livre évalue et contourne certaines habitudes de recherche et de pensée sur l'immigration irrégulière pour considérer les enjeux des "papiers" du côté des sans-papiers eux-mêmes. L'enquête s'intér… |
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Strange new land
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Peter H. Wood |
Discusses the lives of blacks in the American colonies, from the 16th century when slaves were first brought over by the Spanish to the onset of the American Revolution. |
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Worldwide interesting people
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George L. Lee |
Illustrated capsule biographies of Africans, and those of African descent, who made an impact on history throughout the world. |
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Think African
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Jack Sislian |
"This collection of short essays attempts to depict life, thought and actions indigenous to Black Africa and what has been happening there especially as a result of the White Man's penetration into t… |
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Les intellectuels africains en France
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Abdoulaye Gueye |
L'attention des chercheurs s'est portée sur les intellectuels africains des années 50-70. Des études sur les intellectuels de la période postérieure manquent cruellement. L'auteur de ce livre prend e… |
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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660
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Linda Marinda Heywood,John K. Thornton |
331 readable pages of well organized, very well researched African History describing the complicated relationships amongst Angolan Kings, Queens and Lords; Congolese Christian Kings; Catholic Jesuit… |
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At her majesty's request
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Walter Dean Myers |
Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. |
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