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"A simple but fact-packed overview of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, covering their origins, their home stadium, their mascot, famous players and coaches, and well-known plays throughout the team's history"--Amazon.

"A simple but fact-packed overview of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, covering their origins, their home stadium, their mascot, famous players and coaches, and well-known plays throughout the team's history"--Amazon.

"A simple but fact-packed overview of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, covering their origins, their home stadium, their mascot, famous players and coaches, and well-known plays throughout the team's history"--Amazon.

"A simple but fact-packed overview of the Houston Astros baseball team, covering their origins, their home stadium, their mascot, famous players and coaches, and well-known plays throughout the team's history"--Amazon.

"A nonfiction picture book about the inspiring true pay-it-forward story that bridges two continents, 175 years, and two events in history--connecting Ireland, Choctaw Nation, Navajo Nation, and the Hopi Tribe"--Provided by publisher.

"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--Provided by publisher.

In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic humantrade, in an adaptation of the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Barracoon. This is the life story of Cudjo Lewis, as told by himself. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America to be enslaved, 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis was then the only person alive to tell the story of his capture and bondage-fifty years after the Atlantichuman trade was outlawed in the United States. Cudjo shared his firsthand account with legendary folklorist, anthropologist, and writer Zora Neale Hurston.

"In this zany, inclusive, and vibrantly illustrated guide to all things color, the origins of . . . pigments come alive across continents and history, with oodles of art, tons of science--and extensive interactive backmatter!"--OCLC.

"With . . . infographics and leveled text, explores the statistics of modern world soccer teams"--Provided by publisher.

The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise--and suddenly uncertain reign--of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood's old studio system. But will it survive its own spectacular achievements? Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full--and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture.