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Finna
Nino Cipri
Published by Tordotcom, 2020

When a wormhole opens up in a Swedish big box store, minimum-wage employees Ava and Jules, who just broke up a week earlier, have to travel across multiple dimensions and alternate universes to track an elderly customer who disappeared. The first book in the LitenWorld series.

Available at Houston Public Library and Harris County Public Library.

History Unfolded: Online Research Sprint
Online Event, Mon. Nov. 14, 6pm EDT (5pm CDT)
Join the Library of Congress for an online participatory research event with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Help uncover what was being reported about the Holocaust in local newspapers during the years leading up to World War II by researching in the Library’s historic newspaper archive, Chronicling America.
Chronicling America
Free online resource! Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Our Fires Still Burn (SJC log-in required off-campus)
The hour-long documentary Our Fires Still Burn (2013) on Films on Demand highlights the perspectives of contemporary Native Americans from several tribes in Michigan as they work on keeping their cultures alive while healing from past trauma.

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa; Layli Long Soldier
Call Number: E99.Y25 Z57 2019eb
ISBN: 9781984854216
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
At age eight, Zitkála-Šá went to a Quaker school in Indiana, but it was not the great adventure she was expecting. This collection shows the roots of the activist she would become as an adult.

November
Full text of the poem "November" by Alexander Louis Fraser.
Read Across America
The NEA's resources and information about Read Across America.

October 2022 Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 2 of the Generation Park campus library newsletter.

Celebration of Children's and YA Latin American and Latinx Literature
October 11-- "Hear from authors and illustrators amplifying stories and voices from across Latin American and Latinx communities for young readers. We invite families, educators, and students to take part in this unique celebration during Hispanic Heritage Month."
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Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist
In Show Trial, Thomas Doherty details the theatrical elements of the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee proceedings that bridged the realms of entertainment and politics, a courtroom drama starring glamorous actors, colorful moguls, on-the-make congressmen, high-priced lawyers, single-minded investigators, and recalcitrant screenwriters, all recorded by newsreel cameras and broadcast over radio.
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Adapted from web page description. This free event will stream on YouTube.
Harvest of Loneliness | Cosecha Triste
This documentary on Films on Demand uses historical footage and contemporary interviews to examine the experiences of Mexican farm workers (braceros) in the Emergency Farm Labor Program (1942-1964)
2022 Bittersweet Harvest Display
A research guide with links to sites with more information about the Bracero program.
Presidents' Day Math
A 2011 blog post from the National Portrait Gallery about president birth months. After this article's publication, the country has elected a president born in June and a president born in November, so the math is slightly different. October and November are now tied.

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Call Number: PS3601.B746
ISBN: 9780385546577
Publication Date: 2021-05-11
An ambitious law clerk discovers she is the legal guardian for a Supreme Court Justice who has slipped into a coma. The clerk must now unravel a dangerous puzzle the justice built around a high-profile medical merger case before the Court. Physical copy available at North campus library.
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty; Steven Rendall (Translator)
Call Number: HM821|b.P547
ISBN: 9780674275898
Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Written by a French economist, this book looks at the history of equality on a global scale.
Bridging Cultures by Harriett D. Romo (Editor)
Call Number: F395.M5 bB73
ISBN: 9781623499761
Publication Date: 2021-08-16
Editors Romo and Dupont present the complexity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands culture and historical heritage, exploring the tangible and intangible aspects of border culture, the meaning and legacy of the Borderlands, its influence on relationships and connections, and how to manage change in a region evolving dramatically over the past five centuries and into the future. (From publisher)

September 2022 2.1
Volume 2, Issue 1 of the Generation Park campus library newsletter.

Book Library Instruction for your Class
An online calendar that lets you see availability and reserve time for library instruction. If you need library instruction outside the listed times, please contact the librarian directly using the contact info to the left on this page.
LOC Virtual Business Research
The link to register for the Library of Congress Virtual Business Research webinar on Wed, Sep 14, 2022.
Smithsonian Objects and Social Justice Online Event
View details and find the registration link for the Smithsonian presentation of Objects and Social Change. Thu, Sep 8, 2022

Grain and Fire by Rebecca Sharpless
Call Number: TX763 .S424 2022eb
ISBN: 9781469668369
Publication Date: 2022-06-28
Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition by Jean Yates
Call Number: PE1128 2022eb
ISBN: 9781264264223
Publication Date: 2021-11-12

A League of their Own
Log in and watch A League of their Own on our Swank streaming database. SanJac log-in required.
More about Demeter
Read more about the Olympian goddess Demeter on GreekMythology.com, which claims to be the Internet's first Greek Mythology website.

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