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"Growing up in rural Washington as the only out gay kid means Jay is constantly bombarded with reminders that everyone around him can hook up and have relationships, but his list of love-related to-do's -- his own gay agenda -- is indefinitely, frustratingly, on hold. His parents suddenly move the family to Seattle right before his senior year, however, and the thriving LGBTQ+ community means he can finally begin checking things off his list! Will...
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2015.
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English
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Rhode Island's Washington County hides a dark past riddled with macabre crimes and despicable deeds. In 1890, an argument over wages turned deadly when former hotelier George Kenyon shot and killed his carpenter on the grounds of the Gilbert Stuart House in Saunderstown. Senator Charles Burdick was shot and left for dead at his Charlestown home in 1930. Even the peaceful village of Woodville has a veritable rap sheet of thieving maids, speakeasies...
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Documents the author's efforts to eat food produced within ten miles of her home in Puget Sound, Washington, exposing the cause-and-effect consequences of a processed-foods diet while sharing the stories of the farmers she befriended who epitomized the sustainable lifestyle.
6) Streetwise
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Follow a group of unforgettable kids who survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving.
"Follows an unforgettable group of kids who survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving. Its most haunting and enduring fugure is iron-willed fourteen-year-old Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny; the project's follow-up." --
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Streetwise: A documentary on runaway, homeless teens living on the streets of Seattle, who survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving, at the center of which is 14-year-old Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny.
Tiny: Catches up with Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny, the central figure of the documentary "Streetwise", now a mother of ten, struggling with addiction and regret.
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Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It's love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society's rejection and Morise's return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself." --
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"'It's long been assumed of this region, where my grandmother was born, ...that at some point each year the dead will come home,' Inara Verzemnieks writes in this heartrending story of war, exile, and reconnection. Her grandmother's stories recalled one true home: the family farm left behind in Latvia during the Second World War. There, her grandmother Livija and her great-aunt, Ausma, were separated. Livija fled the fighting to become a refugee;...
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City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas. Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for democratic, civil, and human rights by black Americans...
