New kids books highlight black history at festival
Ottawa library showcases children's titles with strong African American history themes. Purchases funded by regular budget grants from Ottawa Black Awareness Committee and Friends of the Ottawa Library. Festival presenters include Spike Lee, Jerry Pinkney, Shane Evans, Dennis Fradin, and Patricia McKissack among others.
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Ottawa
Friends of the Ottawa Library
Franklin County
Bintou
Sylviane Diouf
F Dio
West Africa
Lambs book by female inmates an attempt to give something back
Wally Lamb uses a Connecticut prison writing workshop to publish Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of 10 female inmates stories. The book aims to illuminate flaws in the justice system and the inmates' struggles with rape, violence, drugs, and poverty while provoking debate over profits and victims' rights. Lamb defends the project, stressing rehabilitation, education, and healing through literature.
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Lamb
East Lyme
Conn
Wally Lamb
Connecticut
Dee Clinton
Survivors of
Eight year old Caylah DeCock to have poem published
Ottawa student Caylah Jean DeCock, eight, will see her poem I Love My Mommy included in the national anthology Patterns of Life to be released this spring. Daughter of Noel and Melissa DeCock, Caylah wrote the piece in class and it was posted on a national poetry site by her mother who then submitted it for the collection.
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Nashville
Tricia Ann
Jerry Pinkney
Alice McGill
J McG
Roberta
North Caroline Farm
the Treasury
Willie Mays
Walter Dean Myers
Myers
Harlem
Christopher Myers
Carver
Marilyn Nelson
Newberry
Coretta Scott King
Marian
Pam Ryan
J B Anderson
Marian Anderson
Metropolitan Opera
Brian Selznick
Martin Luther King, Jr
J B Wells
Ida B. Wells
Fradin
Franklin County
Mildred D. Taylor
YA Tay
Taylor
Paul Edward Logan
Mississippi
Cassie Logan
Ottawa
Caylah Jean DeCock
Noel
Melissa DeCock
Caylah
Melissa NeCook
Not to Reason Why Noted War Memoir by WSU Professor
Glenn Fisher, Regents Professor Emeritus at Wichita State, recounts his World War II experiences as a drafted infantryman in Not to Reason Why The Story of a One-Eyed Infantryman in World War II. Drafted 1943, he lost sight in one eye in training and was wounded during a German assault, with vivid battlefield detail framed by Social science context.
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Glenn Fisher
Regents
Wichita State
Fisher
Potter book Order of the Phoenix to hit bookstores
Scholastic projects a 6.8 million first printing for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with strong pre orders and retail demand. J. K. Rowling’s prior installment sold 16 million copies after a 3.8 million first printing. Scholastic set a 29.99 price.
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New York
Order of the Phoenix
Barbara Marcus
Scholastic Children’s Books
J.K. Rowling
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble.com
Michael Crichton
Alice Sebold
the Lovely Bones
Scholastic
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Spike Lee
Tonya Lewis Lee
E Lee
Patricia McKissack
Emck
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Barbara
Blue
DeCock
WSU
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Ottawa Herald
Lee
Ottawaherald
Ottawaherald.com
Mall
Cedar
Leslie
Best
Ottawa Horn
Herald
Clean Legal Services
FA. CO
Gloon Legal Services
Cloonlegal.com
San Juan Diego
Mastercard
VISA
Gorage Sales
Ottawa Family
M-Sat
Humane Society
RED & White
Richmond
BUSS
Josh
Pinnacle Career Institute
Better Business Bureau
Christian Based Inc 500
CRU
Cuenti
Kansas
Jeanny Sharp
S. Cedar
al Ca
Miami Co. Mental Health Center
East St
Paola
EOE
Melvern
Cramer Products Inc
Gardner, KS
Mary Amnett
ORV
Ottawa Retirement Village
16Th St
COF Training Services, Inc
Davis Rd
Ken Wichman
42Nd St
Topeka
Secretary-Planning and Codes Administration
City OF
City Hall
S. Hickory
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