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|  | Black Identity & Black Protest in the Antebellum North by Patrick Rael
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery. AUTHOR: Patrick Rael
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner
Description not available.Compiles letters, articles, and essays on the racial and sexual oppression of Black women in America and the ways in which they have managed to survive in a white-dominated society AUTHOR: Gerda Lerner
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Why Do Rabbits Hop? by Anna DiVito, Joan Holub
Description not available.Questions and answers present information about the behavior and characteristics of rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and gerbils and their interaction with humans, in a fun, easy-to-read fact-filled book. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Anna DiVito, Joan Holub
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | Understanding Your Cat by Michael W. Fox
Prominent veterinarian and animal behavior expert Michael Fox answers questions from What makes cats purr? to Is declawing the safest and most humane way to save the furniture? Practical and informative, the guide unveils the mysteries of the feline world. Photographs throughout. AUTHOR: Michael W. Fox
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | In Our Time by Tom Wolfe
Available for the first time in years, a classic collection of essays and drawings from bestselling novelist Tom Wolfe. AUTHOR: Tom Wolfe
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Heidi by Beverly Cleary, Deidre S. Laiken, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Flo Gibson, Helen B. Dole
Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her old grandfather & his goats in the Swiss Alps, where she meets Peter, the goat boy, his blind grandmother & the villagers of Dorfli. She is taken away to Frankfurt to be a companion to the invalid Clara who later finds health & strength when they return to the mountain Heidi has learned love AUTHOR: Beverly Cleary, Deidre S. Laiken, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Flo Gibson, Helen B. Dole
PUBLISHER: Brilliance Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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