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Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Loomis (Author)From the acclaimed author of A History of America in Ten Strikes, a sweeping account of the impact of organizers on United States history We are living through a time when real social change seems to be in the rearview mirror. But this rousing new book offers a beacon of hope: the stories of organizers who have shown America the way forward in the darkest of times.Author of the celebrated A History of America in Ten Strikes (a Kirkus Review...

Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony E. Kaye (Author), Gregory P. Downs (With)"Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." --Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post "An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." --David W. Blight, Los Angeles Times A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year One of Literary Hub's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat ...

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Report copyright infringementby Miles Cigolle (Author)It was the 1970s, the decade before AIDS hit, when gay men in New York City lost their inhibitions and discovered community on the dance floor and queer sex in the backrooms. Gay liberation was celebrated everywhere, especially after dark from the West Village streetcorners to the underground sex clubs, from the 24/7 bathhouses to the kinky leather bars near the Hudson River. These newly liberated men found queer sex outdoors in the moonli...

An Unlikely Social Justice Warrior: Making My Life Count as a Muslim Feminist

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Report copyright infringementby Ani Zonneveld (Author), R. Anna Hayward (Editor)What happens when a Malaysian Muslim woman defies expectations and challenges patriarchy?Ani Zonneveld shares her journey from Kuala Lumpur to rural Illinois, confronting invisible lines drawn by religion, gender, and race-all in pursuit of truth and justice.From the music industry to global human rights forums, Ani uses her voice-literally and figuratively-to advocate for freedom of expression, women's rights, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Yemi Adefulu (Author), Lina Bahlawan (Author)Adventures of a Migrant Heart" invites readers on a captivating journey through the eyes of immigrants who have navigated diverse landscapes and cultures across the globe. This collection of vibrant narratives weaves together the author's own adventures alongside the heartfelt stories of fellow travelers, each illuminating the resilience, dreams, and challenges faced in their quest for belonging.From bustling metropo...

Totally Ordinary: One Insignificant Story that Means Everything

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Report copyright infringementby Kendall Macaluso (Author)Discovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: A Unique Journey of Self-Realization Amidst Life's Challenges, Unveiling the Power of Each Individual.Totally Ordinary is an inspirational compendium of stories that delves into the life of a common woman. This ensemble of narratives is a testament to the fact that even the most mundane, everyday life can be a treasure trove of extraordinary experiences, if only one dares to look closely. T...

Race: Instituted by God or Invented by Man?

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Phillip Whitaker (Author)For hundreds of years, the idea of "race" has influenced cultures, regulations, and identities-though, is it based on reality? In RACE - Instituted by God or Invented by Man, Gerald Whitaker confronts the deeply rooted belief systems that have driven division, discrimination, and misunderstanding worldwide.Based on his own experience with racial bias, spanning his youth in Harlem, New York City; and suburban New Jersey; to his ca...

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Report copyright infringementby Isabelle Loy-Odan Bete (Author)"She gave me a dream she never had the chance to live."In a remote village in Northern Philippines, a poor and illiterate grandmother takes on the responsibility of raising her young granddaughter. She plants a vision in the child's heart: a better life in the United States, a place she only knows through the stories of her son. Her message is simple yet powerful-education is the key.As the granddaughter grows, she clings to that ...

Three Groundbreaking Jewish Feminists: Pursuing Social Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Leder (Author)Three groundbreaking Jewish feminists-- women's historian Gerda Lerner, feminist Surrealist artist Susana Wald, and former CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) Ruth W. Messinger--devoted their careers to a universal message inherent in the Jewish tradition-no one should be made into a stranger. Though different in their personal histories and professional fields they found ways to empower marginalized and outcast populations doing so...

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (May-August 1924)

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Report copyright infringementby Mahatma Gandhi (Author)This vintage book contains the complete collected works of Mahatma Ghandi. This wonderful and comprehensive collection would make for a fine addition to any bookshelf, and will be of particular value to those with a keen interest in the life and mind of this great man. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948) led the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India, and is one of the most influential and important advocates of non-viol...

The Mystery of Margaret Booker: One Woman's Triumph Over Enslavement

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Report copyright infringementby Kathy L. Marshall (Author)Margaret Booker, an enslaved Black woman with five children by the man who enslaved her, traveled to freedom in the midst of the American Civil War. From West Virginia to Ohio by buckboard, Margaret's extraordinary pluck and survival skills fueled her journey and gave her children a chance to grow up in the freedom she had only begun to taste. Once settled, Margaret found family and built a business in a thriving community of free Blac...

Father Luis Olivares, a Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles

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Report copyright infringementby Mario T. García (Author)This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934-1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Beginning in 1980 and continuing for most of the decade, hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees made the hazardous journey to the United States, seeking asylum from political repression and violence in their home states. Inste...

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Report copyright infringementby John W. Barry (Author)The Freemason's Story Of Paul Revere by John W. Barry is a historical book that tells the story of the famous American patriot, Paul Revere, from the perspective of his involvement with the Freemasons. The book explores how Revere's membership in the Freemasons influenced his life and his role in the American Revolution. The author delves into the history of the Freemasons and their influence on American society during the 18th century. Th...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Douglass (Author), Peter J. Gomes (Introduction by), Gregory Stephens (Afterword by)Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manor...

Many Blessings: A Tapestry of Accomplished African American Women

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Report copyright infringementby Weedn Sonnee (Author), Sonnee D. Weedn (Author), Sonnee Weedn (Author)Many Blessings: A Tapestry of Accomplished African American Women by Sonnee Weedn, Ph.D. Ten years ago, Marin County psychologist, Dr. Sonnee Weedn, was asked to treat a young, urban, African American woman. Believing that as a white woman living in the reality of de facto segregation, she was not knowledgeable enough to treat this woman in psychotherapy, she set about to learn more about Afr...

Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama

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Report copyright infringementby Alexis Okeowo (Author)From a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America. "In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster...." Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomery--the former seat of the Confederacy--as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Here, she weaves her family's story with Alabama's, defying stereotypes about her endlessly complex, o...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Price (Author)"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For readers of Educated, The Glass Castle, and Know My Name comes a powerful new memoir that is a remarkable testament of survival and resilience. At once harrowing and exquisite, haunting and inspiring, Kate Price's story will leave readers with a profound assurance in the power t...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Thomas (Author)"There's a bridge of beautiful American prose--lyrical, powerful, fearlessly candid--running straight from James Baldwin to Thomas, who is obviously Baldwin's worthy heir . . . An utterly immersive book."--Francisco Goldman, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monkey BoyFrom the author of Man Gone Down--a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award--comes a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma...

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

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Report copyright infringementby Anupreeta Das (Author)From the finance editor of The New York Times, an insightful and illuminating examination of Bill Gates--one of the most powerful and provocative figures of the past four decades--and an exploration of our national fixation on billionaires. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first hailed as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to c...

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Vincent (Author)We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be expected to listen in a world of noise made by men. Like so many of us, Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating our every moment. And then, a baby's heartbeat arrived. A rapid, pulsing whoosh of white noise. An undeniable rhythm. Once again, Alice's life became cacopho...

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Report copyright infringementby Ithell Colquhoun (Author)A classic travelogue exploring the meeting point of Ireland's landscape and legends, by Britain's foremost female surrealist painter "Colquhoun has a very beguiling pen. . . To Irish landscapes she brings a painter's eye, writing particularly beautifully about skies, twilights, river valleys, sea-frayed coasts and the intensive atmosphere of remote places" -- Tatler Into the world of 1950s Ireland--a lushly green, windswept landscape st...

Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Gerber (Author)Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable ability to confront and overcome hurdles-be they political, personal, or social-made her one of the greatest leaders of the last century, if not all time. In Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way, author and scholar Robin Gerber examines the values, tactics, and beliefs that enabled Eleanor Roosevelt to bring about tremendous change-in herself and in the world. Examining the former first lady's rise from a diff...

L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Annie Rachele Lanzillotto (Author)A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.Finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography Category presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father's lullabies laced with...

Blackinese: Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Bradby Moore (Author)In this candid and thought-provoking memoir, a millennial woman of Black and Chinese heritage reflects on the complexities of growing up with a mixed identity in the American South and beyond. From childhood memories to college experiences and a burgeoning career, Blackinese explores the nuances of race, culture, and belonging, tackling everything from food and music to dating, politics, and religion.With vulnerable honesty, author...

Stewards of Humanity: Lighting the Darkness in Humanitarian Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Séamus MacPherson (Author)When the world turns away from the horrors of war, genocide, famine, and natural disasters, the stewards of humanity run toward the suffering. They stand as a thin line between life and death for thousands of people who will never know their stories. These stewards are neither heroes nor saints-they are ordinary people with ordinary struggles who rise to extraordinary challenges. They are beacons of light in the darkness of huma...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Moore Rosier (Editor in Chief), Rosalind Ray (Editor)Celebrating 100 Years of Legal Legacy and Social JusticeThis centennial publication commemorates the remarkable 100-year journey of the National Bar Association (NBA), the nation's oldest and largest network of predominantly African American legal professionals. Founded in 1925 to fight racial discrimination and uplift marginalized communities, the NBA has been a powerful force in legal advocacy, civ...

Return of the Lost Son: Memories of My Wayward Father

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Gonzales (Author)A son searches for his father, only to grow uncomfortable--and even miserable--with what he exhumes. Where, he asks, are the limits of forgiveness? Is failure a badge of honor? Are we free to share the secrets of the dead? In Return of the Lost Son, a vivid, tightly paced memoir, Christopher Gonzales attempts to understand a man who, due to early-onset Alzheimer's, was unable to share his own memories. At the outset of his explorat...

Outside Society: People Without a Country

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Report copyright infringementby Ayuo Takahashi (Author)This book describes Ayuo Takahashi's growing up during the socially turbulent 1960s in New York City. The book will be most appreciated by individuals who are interested in Asian culture and the problems that Western-educated Asians confront when they return to their ancestral homelands.Author BiographyAyuo Takahashi is a musician (songwriter, lyricist, composer, vocalist, and guitarist) with over 20 albums released in Japan and the Unite...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Beck (Author), Sophie Lauren Smith (Cover Design by)Have you ever wondered what life's really like beyond our borders? Whether for work, love, adventure, or even to escape, millions of Brits packed their bags, grabbed their passports, and found out for themselves. Goodbye Britain is a collection of their real-life stories in their own words. Discover fascinating insights from British people living across the world; from chasing their dreams, following their...

The Extraordinary Lives Of Ordinary Women: 5 Generations of Women In Ink A Non Fiction Graphic Autoethnography

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Young (Author)This memoir-meets-cultural study traces the invisible threads of memory passed down through generations of women. It explores the keepsakes we save-letters, photographs, diaries, worn documents, scraps of lace-and the stories those objects whisper if we listen closely.This is not your grandmother's history book- and these women didn't always make headlines, but they made homes, traditions, and meaning. They stitched survival into quilts, ...

Thinking of You: A Memoir of a Girl's Crush, a Teacher's Grooming, a Forbidden Love and the Journey to Reclaim My Voice

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Beth Runnoe (Author)Mary Beth Runnoe was only eleven when she met Mr. Davis-the charming and worshipful young choir teacher would hold her in thrall for decades.In prose as resolute as it is haunting, Runnoe explores what it felt like to be groomed by an older man as the focus of Davis' inappropriate, yet strongly appealing, attentions and favor. As she was drawn deeper and deeper into his web, her life turned upside down. She became the keeper of his secr...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark R. Hecht (Author)Running Away From Stalin is the harrowing tale of a man who lived under Stalin and Hitler before finding freedom.Most people believe that Nazi Germany perpetrated the largest ethnic cleansing the world had ever seen but that is not true. At the close of WWII, it was ironically, mostly ethnic Germans that faced the largest ethnic cleansing and forced migration the world has ever known.Around 25 million people were forced from their homes in...