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Virginia Black
Author Virginia Black burst onto the queer speculative fiction scene with her powerful debut, Consecrated Ground. Now Joan of Crows returns to Calvert in this high-octane thriller that pits good…
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Virginia Black's No Shelter But The Stars is the space opera you've been waiting for--packed with warring worlds, romantic adventure, and larger-than-life characters.
Kyran Loyal is the last heir to…
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Reginald D Butler
A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published…
Darrell J Howard
From Winchester to Tidewater, Danville to Fairfax, black baseball is the longest-running form of entertainment and recreation in the black communities of Virginia. For five decades, the black teams of…
Virginia Loh-Hagan
"Break down the science of black holes in this hi-lo scaffolded text. This title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build…
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Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.
Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a…
Edd Sandra Pierce Mathis
Black Teachers and Their Experiences During Massive Resistance in Virginia (1956-1973): Historical Reflections and Contemporary Implications is an important missing piece in the history of American education that has never…
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Cash Sullivan
Virginia A Black
Once upon a time, I saw three ghost figures in the tall ceiling on a cold dark night in October. They were talking to each other and appeared to be…
Virginia Morrow Black
In its sesquicentennial year, Greentree, Indiana, purchases a portable classroom to alleviate overcrowding at Centennial School. However, prize persimmon trees growing nearby prevent the portable classroom (dubbed Sesqui ) from…
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Virginia in Black and White is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and…
Pearson
This "detailed, fascinating" (Booklist, starred review) nonfiction middle grade book explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history that is still playing out today: the strange case of Prince Edward…
Naomi Black
Grounding Virginia Woolf’s feminist beliefs in the everyday world, Naomi Black reclaims Three Guineas as a major feminist document. Rather than a book only about war, Black considers it to…
Robin Black
This astonishing new book, by the brilliant Robin Black is an intimate meditation on reading and writing, aftermath and possibility, the tension between the never-stable, endlessly interpretable depths of a…
Virginia Crow
Beneath Black Clouds and White is the prequel to Day’s Dying Glory, which was published by Crowvus in April 2017.
Explore the dark side of space in Out of this World, a new and exciting series for struggling readers. What are the four different types of black holes? What’s inside…
June Purcell Guild
A clasic treatment of the laws that affected blacks in Virginia. It illustrates the importance of knowledge of the law in doing historical or genealogical research. Black Laws of Virginia…
Shahzad Z. Najmuddin
A masterly handling of a subject few would know anything about. Shakespeare and the colonization of Virginia? He wrote plays! Yes he wrote plays and influenced history.
Virginia Kerns
This classic study of Black
Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized
by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterword
by the…
Donald Black (University of Virginia)
Red Dust is the vivid account of the experiences of an Australian Light Horseman in the Palestinian campaign against the Turks at the end of the Great War. A classic…
An intimate portrait of war There are books which report the experience of war and then there are a few that enable the reader to step into another’s life to…
Students will learn about Asian-Black solidarity and discover how the cooperation can help dismantle harmful racism in America. This series explores the issues specific to the AAPI community in a…
Shanika Keiffer
This is the real-life story of a beautiful black woman from West Virginia who was torn from her home at a young age, isolated from society, and raised in the…
Victoria Virginia Clayton
This social history examines race relations in Virginia during the colonial and early national periods, with a particular focus on the legal and cultural status of free blacks and slaves…
The My Favorite Animal series lets the earliest readers explore the animal kingdom. Black Bear examines the characteristics and habitat of the popular mammal in a simple way that will…
Victoria Virginia Hunter Clayton
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This work is in the "public…
A unique collection of writings by free women of color in the South before the Civil War.
Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University, Massachusetts)
Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 examines the dynamics of blackface performance by English actors from the cycle plays of the early sixteenth century, through Shakespeare’s Aaron and Othello, to…
Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton
A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
Over 860 color photos display the unusual late nineteenth and twentieth century black glass animals, bowls, baskets, candlesticks, compotes, flower bowls, novelties, stemware, tableware, and vases from manufacturers Akro Agate…
‘Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a…
Nishaun T. Battle
Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the…
David Black,Stan a Galloway
Skyline 2018, the fifth in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of writers who live or work in Central Virginia…
