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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

David J. Dennis Jr.
Format: Hardcover

"The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation that is as ingenious as it is soulfully sincere. Stunning."...
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Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond?A Story for All Generations

Lily Ebert - ?HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive . . . a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an unforgettable family chronicle. I couldn't stop reading it." - Simon Sebag MontefioreIn this life-affirming intergenerational memoir, Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor,...
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America Is in the Heart

Carlos Bulosan - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction...
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Keith Thomson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover


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