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2) Big crow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota2s best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native American state champions. By age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. Thirty years after her tragic death, SuAnne's pride in her people continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to save their language and reclaim their culture.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank"--
"In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942,...
Pub. Date
2002, 1987
Language
English
Description
This sequel tells the continuing story of Anne Shirley as she makes the transition from a romantic, impetuous orphan to an outspoken, adventurous young woman. After taking a position to teach in an exclusive private school, Anne still has a knack for finding trouble and adventure.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A taut, nuanced story about the depths of female friendships and the dark side of teenage infatuations. BREATHE, the sophomore directorial effort from Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Beginners), is an assured adaptation of the sensational French young adult novel of the same name. Charlie (Josephine Japy) is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. School holds no surprises either,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Maria Weems was just a teenager when she was given the opportunity to escape her enslaver in the mid-1800s. The journey would be dangerous, but she would have the help of abolitionists along the way. One of those supporters had a novel idea--Anna Maria would escape to freedom disguised as a boy. Learn about her brave journey on the Underground Railroad in this inspiring graphic novel"--
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
It is 1945 and a grown up Anne Shirley returns to Prince Edward Island for an extended visit. She agrees to write a play for a local theatre producer in hopes that it will keep her mind off of her only son who is serving in the Armed Forces overseas. A letter is discovered from the father who abandoned her as a child, bringing up the memories of her early childhood.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Richard Wilson is an internationally-renowned sculptor and installation artist who often works on an architectural scale. 20:50, his room-sized sea of reflective sump oil, is an overwhelming experience. More recent works like Jamming Gears, made for London's Serpentine Gallery, and Over Easy, built into The Arc Arts Centre in Stockton-in-Tees, offer resonant and profound challenges to our sense of space and of the environment around us. By turns amusing...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating relationship in that historic era may well be that between...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, the design duo behind the A.F. Vandevorst label, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx, celebrate their 15th Anniversary with a collection that re-examines pieces in their archives with a modern twist. Anne Valérie Hash explores movement in her Spring 2014 collection, taking codes from sport locker rooms and juxtaposing them with an elegant and feminine silhouette. Belgian designer Christian Wijnants pay homage...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, was a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. She has been described as a ‘wicked wife’, a ‘pathological meddler’ and an altogether ‘vicious’, ‘heartless’, and most ‘unnatural’ woman for the betrayal of her own husband, George Boleyn. Her intimate role in court intrigues sent not only her husband but two English queens, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, to the scaffold. For her involvement in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold, until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Bep, who was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding, risked her life to protect them, plunging into Amsterdam's black market to source food and medicine...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anne Braden: southern patriot provides a moving, in-depth biography of an organizer and journalist who for a remarkable 60 years participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in this country's most conservative region - the South. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. praised her steadfast activism in support of civil rights and civil liberties, but she was threatened, attacked, indicted and labeled a "Communist agitator"...
Language
English
Description
These Emmy Award-winning productions span two decades, from Anne's struggles as an orphan in a small maritime community, to her triumphs as a young teacher and as a volunteer searching for her husband on the battlefields of Europe. A delicate, moving epic full of wit, style and emotional power.
16) The postcard
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
17) Learned by heart
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This modern reimagining of Persuasion is full of witty banter, romantic angst, and compelling characters as it captures the heart of the classic Jane Austen novel. When Anne Elliott broke up with Ben Wentworth it seemed like the right thing to do, but now eight years later, she's not so sure. In her tourist destination hometown, Anne is comfortable and confident in the life she's built for herself. She has a successful career filling her late mother's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1820, the Bront͡ family traveled to their new home on the edge of Haworth Moor. There, the Bront͡ sisters and their brother were given the freedom to explore and expand their imaginative minds, providing the inspiration needed to create literary masterpieces that would be enjoyed for generations to come. In The Bront͡s of Haworth Moor: How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revolutionary Novelists of Their Time, Diane Browning...
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