Kathleen Collins
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A never-before-published collection of stories from Kathleen Collins.
These short stories, discovered only recently, highlight Collins's masterfully blend of the personal issues-- race, gender, family, and sexuality-- with the ordinary moments that shape our lives. Also known as an artist and filmmaker, her stories create full-bodied men, women, and children who justify their lives while integrating the African American experience without becoming...
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Lewis and Clark were brave explorers who traveled great distances to map and take notes on much of the country. This book delves into the exciting history of their journey. Readers will also learn how to chart data on line graphs as they observe the number of miles the explorers traveled each month.
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In the middle of 1974, Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America and feels both compelled by and left out of the women's movement. She finds it difficult to activate her limited supply of empathy as she contends with a clandestine and unlikely friendship, a worrisome health scare, a domineering and philandering psychiatrist husband, or her own distant daughter.
Flora's secret foray into psychotherapy does nothing to halt the...
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With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, New York State truly came into its own as a center for industry and economy. Businessmen like Jay Gould of the railroad industry and oil tycoon JD Rockefeller helped make New York prosperous, while many local inventors, engineers, and architects helped create new and valuable ideas. From the beauty and strength of the Brooklyn Bridge to the innovations of Corning Glass Works, New York's past and present...
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Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short-story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Said Zadie Smith, "To be this good and yet to be ignored is shameful, but her rediscovery is a great piece of luck for us."
That rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman's Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth...
13) Losing Ground
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1982.
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English
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The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest just as her painter husband, Victor, sets off on an exploration of joy. Victor decides to rent a country house away from the city, but the couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated by his involvement with a younger model....
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Kino Lorber
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1980.
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English
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Brothers Victor, Jose and Felipe are recent graduates of a local Catholic school now reveling in their freedom and camaraderie. When the brothers attract the attention of Miss Malloy, she offers them work restoring her Victorian mansion on the Hudson so she can host one last party before she dies. THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY is a fresh and exciting discovery, never theatrically released, and one of the first films written and directed by an...
15) Losing ground
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Milestone Film & Video
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[2016]
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English
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"Losing Ground tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand 'ecstasy' just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy"--Container.
18) Border Devils
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Jim Gray, searching for a notorious gang leader, assumes the identity of a murdered man to infiltrate the gang. With his friend Squint Saunders, Jim attempts to join but is caught and forced to prove his loyalty by killing his friend.