Summary: Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. Teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the state championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WREMcCaulley, Esau
Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCBass, Hester
Summary: "Discover how the black and white citizens of one Alabama city chose peace over violence in the struggle to end segregation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323 BASBaird, Anne
Summary: Text and photographs follow young campers as they experience NASA-style astronaut training at the Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 629.45 BAITyler, William
Summary: Recorded live at Yellowhammer Brewing in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 2021, the album finds William Tyler and fellow psychedelic dreamers The Impossible Truth refashioning prime cuts from the Nashville guitarist's rich catalog, casting new light onto once-familiar songs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TYLZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2019