Protest at Selma
— David J. Garrow
A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the Cross
Vivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow’s account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
History & Geography - Non-Fiction Adults - Children - Teenagers
Martin Luther King
— Ed Clayton
Donald Bermudez
Martin Luther King devoted his life to helping people, first as a Baptist minister and scholar and later as the foremost leader in the African-American civil rights movement. An organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott and cofounder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
History & Geography - Non-Fiction Children
It Happened on the Underground Railroad
— Tricia Martineau Wagner
From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous “road” to freedom.
History & Geography - Non-Fiction Adults
Prince Among Slaves
— Terry Alford
In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier.
History & Geography - Non-Fiction Adults
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake (E-Book)
— Dany Laferrière
On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.
History & Geography - Non-Fiction Adults
Being Dutch more or less
— Lammert de Jong
The Dutch has been living in Wonderland for quite a while, by glamorous 17th Century history, the grand Dutch Golden Century, when Holland ruled the waves.
History & Geography Adults
Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora
— Elizabeth Thomas Hope
The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in the United Kingdom on June 22, 1948, anchoring the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the first generation of Caribbean migrants who left their homeland in search of a better life. This volume represents the experience of the entire Caribbean region, Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone and Dutch.
History & Geography Adults
Before the pyramids
— Christopher Knight and Alan Butler
The plan of the pyramids is not original. It is, say the authors, copied from another sacred site more than a millennium older – in England. The pyramids were built as a gateway to the heavens and on a precise astronomical model of the constellation Orion. Measurements used at Giza required an exact knowledge of the Earth’s dimensions 2,000 years before they were calculated.
History & Geography - Non-Fiction Adults
Lily’s Crossing
— Patricia Reilly Giff
Elizabeth Mollahan--the Lily of Lily's Crossing--lost her mom when she was little. Her father and a grandmother are her only family. Every summer the three of them flee sweaty New York City for a beach house in New York's Rockaways. This year though, Lily's father announces that he's enlisted in the Army; days later, he is gone. Alone with her grandmother, Lily sees a long lonely summer ahead.
Fiction - History & Geography Adults - Teenagers
