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Kehinde Wiley recommended The Queen of Harlem in Books (curated)

 
The Queen of Harlem
The Queen of Harlem
Brian Keith Jackson | 2003 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"As Harlem, the perpetual work in progress, continues to change, it’s refreshing to revisit this book by my dear friend Brian Keith Jackson. The Queen of Harlem sets the stage of a neighborhood that was very familiar to me as I left Yale and discovered New York for the first time."

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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about Pickings (2018) in Movies

Dec 5, 2017  
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Pickings - Official Teaser Trailer (2018)

PICKINGS is an upcoming neo-noir crime film by Usher Morgan. When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past

  
    The Outlaws (2017)

    The Outlaws (2017)

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    Based on real events, this crime action film depicts a Seoul detective's attempts to keep peace...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.4 (9 Ratings)
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This is the story about a young girl, second-generation Irish, Francie Nolan, growing up around 1912 in a tenement. The mother, Katie, works cleaning apartments to bring home enough money for food and very little else. The father, Frankie, is a singing waiter, but when he finds work, he ends up drinking most of his wages. He's kind to Francie, but he's an unreliable alcoholic. Her brother, Neely, is Katie's favorite, and is a typical brother to Francie. He's mostly off trying to be tough with the other neighborhood boys. Francie spends her time reading,with her goal to read through all the authors in her neighborhood library, and goes alphabetically.
  
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Nate the Great
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9.0 (2 Ratings)
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A kid's picture book about a neighborhood sleuth. Here, he searches for Annie's missing painting of her dog. Humor for adults and a mystery that kids can solve make this a winner.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-nate-great-by-marjorie.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Marcus Samuelsson recommended Harlem, U.S.A. in Books (curated)

 
Harlem, U.S.A.
Harlem, U.S.A.
Dawoud Bey | 2021
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"Dawoud recently brought a copy of his book to me at my Harlem restaurant, Red Rooster. This look at the neighborhood in the '70s sums up why I love living here. Dawoud is the street photographer who captured the swagger of the people and life exactly as it was lived back then."

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Meg Cabot recommended When No One Is Watching in Books (curated)

 
When No One Is Watching
When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole | 2020 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry
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"Alyssa Cole kept me turning the pages way past bedtime with this one: Something is wrong in Sydney Green’s beloved Brooklyn neighborhood. With the help of suspiciously charming new neighbor Theo, she might get to the bottom of it—or get killed trying. I have no fingernails left, and it’s Alyssa Cole’s fault."

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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Helping Hats in Books

Jan 17, 2022  
Helping Hats
Helping Hats
Regina C. Brown | 2021 | Children
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Are you looking for another community-based book that talks about the heroes that are in your child or children's hometown neighborhood? There are some important jobs and careers in your neighborhood that will help your child or children learn about.

Helping Hats is a good one with that. However, it is for older children to read. Parents can read this book to their child or children; They can help with reading the book. The pictures made done well. They describe what the person is trying to say and show through the different things our heroes do or need to do to help us.

Helping Hats shows our hometown heroes, from farmers to firefighters, in a job or career. The book helps to teach and show how hard work and dedication are for a job or a career. What a life is for each hero in our lives to help feed us or save us; Even to teach us. Can your child or children come up with some hometown heroes in your neighborhood? Maybe they can appreciate all their work and understand many different kinds of heroes through various careers.
  
Madlenka&#039;s Dog
Madlenka's Dog
Peter Sis | 2002 | Children
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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The pictures are amazing and so much fun. (0 more)
World Tours of Puppies
Another installment of Madlenka who is a little girl who's story is told as she travels around her neighborhood. In this fun tale she is fascinated with dogs. As she walks her dogs she meets different breeds of dogs while greeting her neighbors.