Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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BOOK NUMBER 43
SUBJECT MATTER: Youth Non-fiction-School Integration, Little Rock History
TITLE: remember little rock-The Time, The People, The Stories
AUTHOR: Paul Robert Walker
PUBLISHER: National Geographic Society
COPYRIGHT: 2009, 61 pages
A matchless, physically appealing book about the integration of U.S. schools-specifically in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Author tells of the mayhem, violence, hate, and terror involved with the implementation of the new desegregation rules. Splendid personal stories from the Little Rock Nine and others who were a part of that event and some truly great photos.
Included: A Civil Rights Timeline

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BOOK NUMBER 42
SUBJECT MATTER: Adult Fiction
TITLE: The Music Teacher
AUTHOR: Barbara Hall
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
COPYRIGHT: 2009, 292 pages
A sometimes laugh out loud story about a most unpleasant, unlikeable, shallow lady music teacher whose search for who she is predictably/unfortunately semi- resolves itself in the physical attentions of a man.