Freedom in Congo Square

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves

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Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire

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 Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature "shaped speech" style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.

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Freedom in Congo Square

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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R. Gregory Christie, 2009

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Pie Corbett, Gaby Morgan, 2009

Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire

T. Cole Rachel, Rita D. Costello, 2004

Hijab and Red Lipstick

Yousra Imran, 2020

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Harun Yahya, 2003

Whispering Room: A Collection of Haunted Poems

Gillian Clarke, 2003

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Suzanne Rentz, 2003