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Red Scare : blacklists, McCarthyism and the making of modern America

Risen, Clay,


PART I -- 1. A blue envelope -- 2. Swimming-pool Communists -- 3. We'll all go to jail -- 4. A civil war on the Left -- 5. Un-American activities -- PART II -- 6. One of you is lying -- 7. Foley Square -- 8. Peekskill USA -- 9. A clear and present danger -- 10. The ballad of Harry Bridges -- 11. I have in my hand a list -- 12. A government within a government -- 13. The China lobby -- 14. The Russians are coming! -- 15. The Pink Lady -- 16. Running with the hounds -- 17. Naming names -- 18. The China hands -- 19. Terror by index cards -- PART III -- 20. Positive loyalty -- 21. How Red are the schools? -- 22. A race for death -- 23. A dry crucifixion -- PART IV -- 24. The Tonangeber -- 25. Who promoted Peress? -- 26. McCarthyism -- 27. Red Monday -- 28. The Coal-Seam Fire. "The film 'Oppenheimer' has awakened interest in this vital period of American history. Now, for the first time in a generation, 'Red Scare' presents a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. The cultural phenomenon, most often referred to as McCarthyism, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, coupled with the terrifying onset of the Cold War. This defining moment in American history, unlike any that preceded it, was marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies. Beginning with the origins of the era after WWI through to its conclusion in 1957, Risen brings to life the politics, patriotism, opportunism, courage, and delirium of those years through the lives and experiences of a cast of towering historical figures, including President Eisenhower, Roy Cohn, Paul Robeson, Robert Oppenheimer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon, and many more individuals known and unknown. 'Red Scare' takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists to a fuller understanding of what the country went through at a time of moral questioning and perceived threat from the left, and what we were capable of doing to each other as a result. An urgent, accessible, and important history, 'Red Scare' reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment"--
Date Published:2025

PART I -- 1. A blue envelope -- 2. Swimming-pool Communists -- 3. We'll all go to jail -- 4. A civil war on the Left -- 5. Un-American activities -- PART II -- 6. One of you is lying -- 7. Foley Square -- 8. Peekskill USA -- 9. A clear and present danger -- 10. The ballad of Harry Bridges -- 11. I have in my hand a list -- 12. A government within a government -- 13. The China lobby -- 14. The Russians are coming! -- 15. The Pink Lady -- 16. Running with the hounds -- 17. Naming names -- 18. The China hands -- 19. Terror by index cards -- PART III -- 20. Positive loyalty -- 21. How Red are the schools? -- 22. A race for death -- 23. A dry crucifixion -- PART IV -- 24. The Tonangeber -- 25. Who promoted Peress? -- 26. McCarthyism -- 27. Red Monday -- 28. The Coal-Seam Fire. "The film 'Oppenheimer' has awakened interest in this vital period of American history. Now, for the first time in a generation, 'Red Scare' presents a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. The cultural phenomenon, most often referred to as McCarthyism, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, coupled with the terrifying onset of the Cold War. This defining moment in American history, unlike any that preceded it, was marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies. Beginning with the origins of the era after WWI through to its conclusion in 1957, Risen brings to life the politics, patriotism, opportunism, courage, and delirium of those years through the lives and experiences of a cast of towering historical figures, including President Eisenhower, Roy Cohn, Paul Robeson, Robert Oppenheimer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon, and many more individuals known and unknown. 'Red Scare' takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists to a fuller understanding of what the country went through at a time of moral questioning and perceived threat from the left, and what we were capable of doing to each other as a result. An urgent, accessible, and important history, 'Red Scare' reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment"--

Date Published:2025

Close to home : the wonders of nature just outside your door

Hanson, Thor,


Introduction : Backyard biology -- Seeing -- Look at your fish -- Get small. "We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the least. In Close to Home, biologist Thor Hanson shows how retraining our eyes reveals hidden wonders just waiting to be discovered. In urban Los Angeles, hundreds of unknown species abound. In the Pacific Northwest, fierce yellowjackets placidly sip honeydew, unseen in the treetops. And in the soil beneath our feet, remedies for everything from breast cancer to the stench of skunks lie waiting for someone's searching shovel. Close to Home is a hands-on natural history for any local patch of Earth. It shows that we each can contribute to science and improve the health of our planet. And even more, itproves that the wonders of nature don't lie in some far-off land: they await us, close to home"--
Date Published:2025

Introduction : Backyard biology -- Seeing -- Look at your fish -- Get small. "We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the least. In Close to Home, biologist Thor Hanson shows how retraining our eyes reveals hidden wonders just waiting to be discovered. In urban Los Angeles, hundreds of unknown species abound. In the Pacific Northwest, fierce yellowjackets placidly sip honeydew, unseen in the treetops. And in the soil beneath our feet, remedies for everything from breast cancer to the stench of skunks lie waiting for someone's searching shovel. Close to Home is a hands-on natural history for any local patch of Earth. It shows that we each can contribute to science and improve the health of our planet. And even more, itproves that the wonders of nature don't lie in some far-off land: they await us, close to home"--

Date Published:2025

Between two skies

O'Sullivan, Joanne,


Junior Library Guild. Hurricane Katrina sets a teenage girl adrift. But a new life---and the promise of love---emerges in this rich, highly readable debut.
Date Published:2017

Joy goddess : A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Bundles, A'Lelia Perry,


"Dubbed the 'joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s' by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the author's great-grandmother and namesake, is a fascinating figure whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem Renaissance. After inheriting her mother's hair care enterprise, A'Lelia would become America's first high profile black heiress and a prominent patron of the arts. Joy Goddess takes readers inside her three New York homes -- a mansion, a townhouse, and a pied-a-terre -- where she entertained Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, W.E.B. DuBois, and other cultural, social and intellectual luminaries of the Roaring Twenties. Now, based on extensive research and Walker's personal correspondence, her great-granddaughter creates a meticulous, nuanced portrait of a charismatic woman struggling to define herself as a wife, mother, and businesswoman outside her famous mother's sphere. In Joy Goddess, A'Lelia's radiant personality and impresario instincts -- at the center of a vast, artistic social world where she flourished as a fashion trendsetter and international traveler -- are brought to vivid and unforgettable life." --
Date Published:2025

"Dubbed the 'joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s' by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the author's great-grandmother and namesake, is a fascinating figure whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem Renaissance. After inheriting her mother's hair care enterprise, A'Lelia would become America's first high profile black heiress and a prominent patron of the arts. Joy Goddess takes readers inside her three New York homes -- a mansion, a townhouse, and a pied-a-terre -- where she entertained Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, W.E.B. DuBois, and other cultural, social and intellectual luminaries of the Roaring Twenties. Now, based on extensive research and Walker's personal correspondence, her great-granddaughter creates a meticulous, nuanced portrait of a charismatic woman struggling to define herself as a wife, mother, and businesswoman outside her famous mother's sphere. In Joy Goddess, A'Lelia's radiant personality and impresario instincts -- at the center of a vast, artistic social world where she flourished as a fashion trendsetter and international traveler -- are brought to vivid and unforgettable life." --

Date Published:2025

War stories

Korman, Gordon,


Junior Library Guild. Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
Date Published:2020

Junior Library Guild. Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.

Date Published:2020

The last tsar : the abdication of Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-,


"When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs-it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas's resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era-the bumbling Nicholas, his spiteful wife Alexandra, the family's faith healer Rasputin-it untangles the dramatic struggle by Russia's aristocratic, military, and legislative elite to reform the monarchy. By rejecting compromise, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him"--
Date Published:2024

"When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs-it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas's resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era-the bumbling Nicholas, his spiteful wife Alexandra, the family's faith healer Rasputin-it untangles the dramatic struggle by Russia's aristocratic, military, and legislative elite to reform the monarchy. By rejecting compromise, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him"--

Date Published:2024

Wonder

Palacio, R. J.,


Includes foreword by Stephen chbosky, co-screenwriter/director of Wonder, afterword by R. J. Palacio, the making of Wonder, and family discussion guide. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Date Published:2017

Includes foreword by Stephen chbosky, co-screenwriter/director of Wonder, afterword by R. J. Palacio, the making of Wonder, and family discussion guide. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

Date Published:2017

Slider

Hautman, Pete, 1952-,


Booklist, Publishers Weekly, School Library Connection, School Library Journal, After David accidentally puts $2,000 on his mom's credit card, he begins training as a competitive eater in order to win the money back. And as he trains, he has to keep an eye on his kid brother, who has special needs, and on his friends, Cyn and HeyMan, who are becoming more than friends.
Date Published:2017

The loop

Oliver, Ben, (Science fiction writer),


"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones he loves. But the population on the outside may be far more terrifying than anything he could have imaged. And in order to save his family, he'll have to discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world."--
Date Published:2020

"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones he loves. But the population on the outside may be far more terrifying than anything he could have imaged. And in order to save his family, he'll have to discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world."--

Date Published:2020

Wakara's America : the life and legacy of a Native founder of the American West

Mueller, Max Perry,


Wakara's grave -- Wakara's fish -- Wakara's horse -- Wakara's slave -- Brigham's war -- Wakara's skull. "The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West, famed as a fierce warrior, a merciless trader of Indian slaves, and history's greatest horse thief. In Wakara's America, historian Max Perry Mueller illuminates Wakara's complex and sometimes paradoxical story, revealing a man who both helped build the settler American West and defended Native sovereignty. Wakara was baptized as a Mormon and allied with Mormon settlers against other Indians to seize large parts of modern-day Utah. Yet a pan-tribal uprising against the Mormons that now bears Wakara's name stalled and even temporarily reversed colonial expansion. Through diplomacy and through violence, Wakara oversaw the establishment of settlements, built new trade routes, and helped create the boundaries that still define the region. Drawing together deep archival research with Native oral histories, archaeology, geology, and ecology, Wakara's America offers an innovative new vision of the history of the American West with Native people at its center. It serves as a powerful testament to Wakara's legacy, which endures in his story, in his tribal descendants, and in their stewardship of their ancestral lands today"-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2025

Wakara's grave -- Wakara's fish -- Wakara's horse -- Wakara's slave -- Brigham's war -- Wakara's skull. "The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West, famed as a fierce warrior, a merciless trader of Indian slaves, and history's greatest horse thief. In Wakara's America, historian Max Perry Mueller illuminates Wakara's complex and sometimes paradoxical story, revealing a man who both helped build the settler American West and defended Native sovereignty. Wakara was baptized as a Mormon and allied with Mormon settlers against other Indians to seize large parts of modern-day Utah. Yet a pan-tribal uprising against the Mormons that now bears Wakara's name stalled and even temporarily reversed colonial expansion. Through diplomacy and through violence, Wakara oversaw the establishment of settlements, built new trade routes, and helped create the boundaries that still define the region. Drawing together deep archival research with Native oral histories, archaeology, geology, and ecology, Wakara's America offers an innovative new vision of the history of the American West with Native people at its center. It serves as a powerful testament to Wakara's legacy, which endures in his story, in his tribal descendants, and in their stewardship of their ancestral lands today"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2025

Spirit hunters

Oh, Ellen,


School Library Journal, May 2017. Booklist starred, May 2017. Pub Weekly, May 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2017. Kirkus Review, May 2017. "Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. The whole atmosphere gives Harper a sense of déjà vu, but she can't remember why. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal, May 2017. Booklist starred, May 2017. Pub Weekly, May 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2017. Kirkus Review, May 2017. "Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. The whole atmosphere gives Harper a sense of déjà vu, but she can't remember why. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2018

No fixed address

Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-,


ALA Booklist. Bulletin(Center for Children's Books). Kirkus Reviews. School Library Journal. Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
Date Published:2018

Why nothing works : who killed progress--and how to bring it back

Dunkelman, Marc J.,


Introduction -- Servant or master of the public? -- The price of progress -- Bodies on the machine -- Manacling the octopus -- More harm than good -- No place to call home -- The bridge to nowhere -- A tragedy of the commons in reverse -- Conclusion: Full-circle progressivism. "America was once a country that could do big things - building the world's greatest rail network, a vast electrical grid, interstate highways, abundant housing, Social Security, NASA, and more. But today, on issues that touch us each and every day, from housing to clean energy to high-speed rail, we feel stuck, unable to move the needle, ruled by a vetocracy that uses its power to stifle progress. Marc Dunkelman's provocative analysis of the architecture and use of power investigates how we moved from a can-do culture to one in which new red tape is added to a world already hampered by it-and how we can find our way back. While Progressives blame the right, it's actually Progressive reforms that curtail anyone who wields power - from bureaucrats and politicians to financiers, and corporate executives - from getting things done. Guardrails placed around power brokers so that they don't interfere with our individual autonomy or oppress us with its coercive authority have worked all too well - so well that government has been rendered incompetent, stifling the very tool needed to fight for justice and equality. As Americans confront massive crises like climate change, rising healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and failing schools, Americans need quick and decisive action. In this book Dunkelman shows how progressives can rediscover their roots, end gridlock, and do the crucial work of serving the people"--
Date Published:2025

Introduction -- Servant or master of the public? -- The price of progress -- Bodies on the machine -- Manacling the octopus -- More harm than good -- No place to call home -- The bridge to nowhere -- A tragedy of the commons in reverse -- Conclusion: Full-circle progressivism. "America was once a country that could do big things - building the world's greatest rail network, a vast electrical grid, interstate highways, abundant housing, Social Security, NASA, and more. But today, on issues that touch us each and every day, from housing to clean energy to high-speed rail, we feel stuck, unable to move the needle, ruled by a vetocracy that uses its power to stifle progress. Marc Dunkelman's provocative analysis of the architecture and use of power investigates how we moved from a can-do culture to one in which new red tape is added to a world already hampered by it-and how we can find our way back. While Progressives blame the right, it's actually Progressive reforms that curtail anyone who wields power - from bureaucrats and politicians to financiers, and corporate executives - from getting things done. Guardrails placed around power brokers so that they don't interfere with our individual autonomy or oppress us with its coercive authority have worked all too well - so well that government has been rendered incompetent, stifling the very tool needed to fight for justice and equality. As Americans confront massive crises like climate change, rising healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and failing schools, Americans need quick and decisive action. In this book Dunkelman shows how progressives can rediscover their roots, end gridlock, and do the crucial work of serving the people"--

Date Published:2025

Making sense of slavery : America's long reckoning, from the founding era to today

Spillman, Scott,


Prologue. Knowledge is power -- National identity -- Land and labor -- Laws and nature and nations -- Still fighting it -- Look away -- Dixie Land -- New foundations -- The problem of slavery -- Culture and consciousness -- The big picture -- The ghost. -- Epilogue. The work. "In recent years Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution. In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of slavery was a vital catalyst for the broader development of American intellectual life and politics. In contexts ranging from the plantation fields to the university classroom, Americans interpreted slavery and its afterlives through many lenses, shaping the trajectory of disciplines from economics to sociology, from psychology to history"--
Date Published:2025

Prologue. Knowledge is power -- National identity -- Land and labor -- Laws and nature and nations -- Still fighting it -- Look away -- Dixie Land -- New foundations -- The problem of slavery -- Culture and consciousness -- The big picture -- The ghost. -- Epilogue. The work. "In recent years Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution. In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of slavery was a vital catalyst for the broader development of American intellectual life and politics. In contexts ranging from the plantation fields to the university classroom, Americans interpreted slavery and its afterlives through many lenses, shaping the trajectory of disciplines from economics to sociology, from psychology to history"--

Date Published:2025

Yesterday I had the blues

Frame, Jeron Ashford.


A young boy ponders a variety of emotions and how different members of his family experience them, from his own blues to his father's grays and his grandmother's yellows.
Date Published:2003

Smile

Telgemeier, Raina.


The author relates, in graphic form, her experiences after she injured her two front teeth and had to have surgeries and wear embarrassing braces and headgear, all the while also dealing with the trials and tribulations of middle school.
Date Published:2010

The creeps. 2, The trolls will feast! /

Schweizer, Chris,


Junior Library Guild. The Creeps discover that Pumpkins County is beset by invisible Trolls! The young friends know how to stop the monsters, but with an online gossip site spreading mayhem, it is tough to do so.
Date Published:

Tangled fortunes : the hidden history of interracial marriage in the segregated South

Schumaker, Kathryn,


Inheritances : Mary Ann and Levin -- Strategies of survival : Albert and Carrie -- Concubines and wives : Mary and William -- "The law is a grinning corpse" : Charles and Ella -- "One drop" : Antonio and Clara -- Myths of racial integrity : Ralphine and William -- Exiling the past : Pearl and Alex -- Criminal affections : Daisy and Elsie -- The white man's will : Sim. "Interracial marriage was already illegal in some of the American colonies as early as the 1690s. But long before the Supreme Court declared interracial marriage constitutional in 1967, these families were far from rare. It took decades of hard work by Southern lawmakers and judges to create the illusion that they were, as Tangled Fortunes reveals in this new history of the rise and fall of the domestic color line. In Tangled Fortunes, historian Kathryn Schumaker narrates how the prohibition of interracial marriage became a priority for white supremacist lawmakers. To prevent white wealth falling into Black hands, they papered over the reality of interracial relationships, steered inheritances away from those who did not pass as white, and hardened the lines of racist exclusion. But they could neither erase the region's longer history of interracial relationships nor suppress the inheritance claims of biracial descendants dating back to the era of slavery. Tangled Fortunes sheds new light on the ways that interracial families overcame racist laws, uncovered closely kept Southern secrets, and battled to reclaim Black wealth--a fight that continues to this day"--
Date Published:2025

Inheritances : Mary Ann and Levin -- Strategies of survival : Albert and Carrie -- Concubines and wives : Mary and William -- "The law is a grinning corpse" : Charles and Ella -- "One drop" : Antonio and Clara -- Myths of racial integrity : Ralphine and William -- Exiling the past : Pearl and Alex -- Criminal affections : Daisy and Elsie -- The white man's will : Sim. "Interracial marriage was already illegal in some of the American colonies as early as the 1690s. But long before the Supreme Court declared interracial marriage constitutional in 1967, these families were far from rare. It took decades of hard work by Southern lawmakers and judges to create the illusion that they were, as Tangled Fortunes reveals in this new history of the rise and fall of the domestic color line. In Tangled Fortunes, historian Kathryn Schumaker narrates how the prohibition of interracial marriage became a priority for white supremacist lawmakers. To prevent white wealth falling into Black hands, they papered over the reality of interracial relationships, steered inheritances away from those who did not pass as white, and hardened the lines of racist exclusion. But they could neither erase the region's longer history of interracial relationships nor suppress the inheritance claims of biracial descendants dating back to the era of slavery. Tangled Fortunes sheds new light on the ways that interracial families overcame racist laws, uncovered closely kept Southern secrets, and battled to reclaim Black wealth--a fight that continues to this day"--

Date Published:2025

Travis Daventhorpe. 2, Powers up! /

Molebash, Wes,


Volume number taken from spine. Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, With the evil Nol Invictus intent on destroying Travis Daventhorpe, the sorcerer Bela counsels Travis to find faith in himself in order to manifest his powers. But with Travis having relied on science his entire life, he has trouble believing he'll fulfill the prophecy by believing in something he can't prove. In the meantime, the Rogue is doing everything she can to thwart the prophecy, and when her identity is revealed, Travis feels an acute betrayal.
Date Published:2024

Volume number taken from spine. Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, With the evil Nol Invictus intent on destroying Travis Daventhorpe, the sorcerer Bela counsels Travis to find faith in himself in order to manifest his powers. But with Travis having relied on science his entire life, he has trouble believing he'll fulfill the prophecy by believing in something he can't prove. In the meantime, the Rogue is doing everything she can to thwart the prophecy, and when her identity is revealed, Travis feels an acute betrayal.

Date Published:2024

Caveboy Dave. 2, Not so faboo /

Reynolds, Aaron, 1970-,


Kirkus Review, September 2018. Library Media Connection, January 2019. "Twelve-year-old Dave Unga-Bunga is elected leader of the village after Shaman Faboo goes missing, and if Dave can't find Shaman Faboo and bring him back, he'll be doomed to take over as leader forever!"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2018