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A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Portrays the life of the famed English novelist and describes how he entertained audiences by reading his stories aloud. Includes excerpts from "The Pickwick Papers, " "Oliver Twist, " "A Christmas Carol, " "Dombey and Son, " "David Copperfield, " and "Great Expectations."
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success--and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and...
103) Olio
Author
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com.
