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Students can access the full-text encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, as well as the Lands and People series - an excellent source of information for country reports, and the America the Beautiful series - a great resource for state reports.
1) Roomies
Author
Language
English
Description
"From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren's (Beautiful Bastard, Dating You / Hating You) new romance. Marriages of convenience are so ... inconvenient. Rescued by Calvin McLoughlin from a would-be subway attacker, Holland Bakker pays the brilliant musician back by pulling...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, NY, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious:...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn Matters reveals how a few powerful men tried to tilt the Brooklyn landscape in favor of big real estate at the expense of urban livability. Disregarding time-honored urban planning principles and manipulating a desperate need in the African-American community for jobs and affordable housing, they pushed their own interests forward--luxury housing and a 20,000 seat sports arena. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities...
5) Stages
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Stages is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. In New York City's oldest community center, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, identity, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cop killer cuts loose in a club called Purgatory, Eve Dallas descends into an underground criminal hell ... Purgatory's a last chance for atonement where everyone is judged. Your ultimate fate depends on your most intimate sins.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the pograms in Russia and European anti-Semitism, teenaged Miriam arrives in America only to face anti-immigrant discrimination before landing a job in a clothing factory and witnessing the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Conditions were harsh in tenement factories all over New York City, but they were especially difficult at one in particular. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located near the city's Washington Square Park, made history on March 25, 1911, when a devastating fire destroyed the top three floors of the building in which it was located. One hundred and forty-six young women and several men died in what was the worst workplace disaster to take place in...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Description
Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
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