Ta-Nehisi Coates
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1090L
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English
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
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English
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In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award,...
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award,...
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English
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage -- and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child -- but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
4) The message
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English
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"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking-expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist--and named for Nubian pharaoh--Coates...
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Marvel
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Collects Black Panther (2016) #1-4, Fantastic Four (1961) #52. A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
As a child, Coates was seen by his father as too sensitive and lacking focus. Paul Coates was a Vietnam vet who'd been part of the Black Panthers and was dedicated to reading and publishing the history of African civilization....
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Black Panther volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
T'Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. As suicide bombers terrorize the population, T'Challa struggles to unite his citizens, and a familiar villain steps out of the shadows. If Wakanda...
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The full truth of the People's revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been revealed! Now, T'Challa must fight like never before for the fate of his nation - and one of his most trusted allies is back to stand by his side. As the final battle begins, the entirety of Wakanda's glorious history may be their most potent weapon. But even if the People fall, can the monarchy still stand? The pieces are all in position, now it's time for...
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Captain America (2018) volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a sudsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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It's winter in America! For over 70 years, Captain America has stood in stalwart defense of our country and its people. But in the aftermath of Hydra's takeover of the nation, Cap is a figure of controversy, carrying a tarnished shield...and a new enemy is rising! Who are they? And how do they intend to co-opt and corrupt the symbol that is Captain America? Distrusted by a nation that seems to have lost faith in him, Steve Rogers is a man out of time...
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Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
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English
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Shuri has returned changed with mysterious supernatural powers, but Wakanda has changed too. She works to appease her restless countrymen, from conversing with philosophy professor Changamire whose teachings inspired rebel leader Tetu, and dealing with the rogue Dora Milaje, led by Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels.
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Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 540L
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English
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T'Challa has revived his sister and helped Shuri return to the physical world with Wakanda's collective knowledge and new abilities, but their victory is short lived. A rebellion ravages the kingdom while T'Challa's attention has been worn thin, but the faction led by Tetu and Zenzi and the Midnight Angels struggle to make a formal alliance.
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Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 500L
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English
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The Midnight Angels sever their ties to the royal government and rebuke Tetu's alliance. T'Challa asks Changamire to speak out against the atrocities commited in his name. But the gears of war still turn as Wakanda's forces prepare for the final battle at the Golden City.
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Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 570L
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English
Description
T'Challa calls upon his crew--Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Storm, and Manifold--to find a hidden base of operations for a rebel group; Shuri's spirit travels the Djalia with a Griot in the form of her mother, who has been imparting the collective knowledge of Wakanda's ancestors.
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...