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Now available for the first time in nearly 40 years. Baldwin's only children's book follows the day-to-day life of four-year-old TJ and his friends in their Harlem neighborhood as they encounter the social realities of being black in America in the 1970s. Full color.
Little Man is a drummer--that's his thing. He's bursting with rhythm and wants to improve his groove. With support from his father, Little Man practices every day. Soon he has enough confidence to play the drums at the local block party and is pleasantly surprised when his neighbors take up a collection for him. Now Little Man has money to buy a new bike to transport him to drum lessons! Inspired by Dionne Warwick's and co-author David Freeman Wooley's shared passion for music and performing.
A journalist presents an intimate assessment of the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian-American male that traces his own experiences as an immigrant under the constraints of American cultural stereotypes.
The return of a “superb” forgotten masterpiece about a young couple living in Weimar Germany during the Nazi’s rise to power (Graham Greene) Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a devent life amidst an economic crisis that’s transforming their country into a place of anger and despair. It was an international bestseller upon its release, and made into a Hollywood movie—by Jewish producers, which prompted the rising Nazis to begin paying ominously close attention to Hans Fallada, even as his novels held out stirring hope for the human spirit. Ultimately, it is the book that led to Hans Fallada’s downfall with the Nazis. It is presented here in its first-ever uncut translation, by Susan Bennett, and with an afterword by Philip Brady that details the calamitous background of the novel, its worldwide reception, and how it turned out to be, for the author, a dangerous book. “Painfully true to life . . . I have read nothing so engaging as Little Man, What Now? for a long time.” —Thomas Mann
This imaginative Little Golden Book, originally published in 1955, tells the story of the creation of Disneyland and the little man who lives there. Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love joining Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as they meet little Patrick Begorra. Great for Disney fans, theme park enthusiasts, and Little Golden Book collectors of all ages!
Meyer Lansky was a thinking man's mobster, the "accountant for the mob." Able to remember masses of complex numbers - without committing them to paper - he built a reputation for himself as untouchable by the law. He is introduced as the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, toughing it out on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There he learns the art of gambling & teams up with his brawny counterpart "Lucky" Luciano.
On a small Caribbean Island, Albert must face middle school, where he's one of the shortest students, without his best friend who just moved away, but he's able to move past the teasing after getting involved in a troupe of Mocko Jumbies--Stiltwalkers--following a tradition brought by African slaves.
When a very young boy and his siblings are abandoned to an orphanage by an intellectually disabled mother, the boy responds with amazing resourcefulness and bravery. This memoir, a true story that had to be told, is the clear, unique voice of a survivor of the kind of childhood that is usually the undoing of less hardy souls.
The remarkable story of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever accumulated to the people of the United States.
Elementary school children identify the shapes formed by U.S. state boundaries in this rhyming story that teaches mnemonic devices for learning the names and locations of the fifty states.
