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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

Reclaiming Our Lives

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Maryland

Homer Sargent and the Great American Watercolor

Originally accompanying an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, this volume features 125 watercolours from the Museum's collection. Beginning with Benjamin West in the 1790s, the book surveys the development of watercolour, concluding with images by Andrew Wyeth from the 1940s.

Awash in Color

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Massachusetts

Charles Sheeler, Paintings and Drawings

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

This illuminating graphic novel biography about Harriet Tubman sheds new light on one of American history's bravest heroes.



Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. She underwent some thirteen missions to rescue around seventy enslaved people, using and expanding a network of abolitionists that became known as the Underground Railroad. She spent her life as an activist, speaking out for Black people and women's suffrage. 

This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed and authentic. Illustrated with care for the historical record, it offers insight into the life and mind of Tubman, displaying her as a woman with an unshakable desire to break the chains of an unjust society. It is a perfect anti-racist narrative for our times and deepens an understanding of just what freedom means to those who must fight for it.

Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Song of John Coltrane

Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Before John Was a Jazz Giant

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New York

The Greensboro Sit-Ins

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 stand for equal rights at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie's town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.

Freedom on the Menu

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New Jersey

Toward Freedom

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A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe

In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe.

From the day she was born into a troubled home to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson) lived a life that was often defined by others. Here, in a luminous poetic narrative, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford tells Marilyn's story in a way that restores her voice to its rightful place: center stage. Revisiting Marilyn's often traumatic early life--foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, teen marriage--through a hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom that brought with it exploitation, pill dependency, and depression, the lyrical narrative continues through Marilyn's famous performance at JFK's birthday party, three months before her death. In a story at once riveting, moving, and unflinching, Carole Boston Weatherford tells a tale of extraordinary pain and moments of unexpected grace, gumption, and perseverance, as well as the inexorable power of pursuing one's dreams. A beautifully designed volume.

Beauty Mark

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Carol Poston

Reclaiming Our Lives

Sue W. Reed; Carol Troyen; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Staff

Awash in Color

Carol Troyen; Erica E. Hirshler; Charles Sheeler; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Staff (Contribution by); Whitney Museum of American Art Staff (Contribution by); Dallas Museum of Art Staff (Contribution by)

Charles Sheeler, Paintings and Drawings

Whit Taylor; Kazimir Lee (Artist); Carole Boston Weatherford (Introduction by)

Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom

Carole Boston Weatherford; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)

Before John Was a Jazz Giant

Carole Boston Weatherford; Jerome Lagarrigue Lagarrigue (Illustrator)

Freedom on the Menu

Whit Taylor; Kazimir Lee (Artist); Carole Boston Weatherford (Introduction by)

ARC - Harriet Tubman

Carole Boston Weatherford

Beauty Mark

Carole Boston Weatherford; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

The Roots of Rap