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Mrs. MiniverThe beloved classic novel of an English housewife bravely enduring WWII--the basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Greer Garson.Winston Churchill once remarked that Mrs. Miniver, the fictional British housewife featured in Jan Struther's newspaper columns about quotidian English life, did more for the...
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Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater PiratesWaiting in the night, hidden behind a remote island, no lights showing, pirates would lure unsuspecting ships into unknown waters. Then they would silently slide up to them and board the ship. The crew would be killed and the bodies thrown over the side,...
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Chicano Movement for BeginnersAs the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important...
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The Fifth DiamondThis is the story of Irene Zisblatt, Auschwitz and after. Her autobiography moves from Irene's childhood in Hungary through her terrifying coming-of-age as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps and her life in America. It is a story of compassion and hope between two...
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Malcolm X SpeaksSpeeches from the last year and a half of Malcolm X's life tracing the evolution of his views on racism, capitalism, socialism, political action, and more.Author: Malcolm XPublisher: PathfinderPublished: 01/01/1989Pages: 275Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780873485463
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Yes to Life: In Spite of EverythingFind hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The...
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A Farewell to ArmsHemingway's masterpiece is not only one of the best novels we have about World War I but is also a tender, haunting love story. Ernest Hemingway drew from his own war experiences when he crafted this remarkable story of an American ambulance driver serving...
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A Little History of the United StatesA character-filled history that brings the American saga to life A New York Times Bestseller "Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect anew on America's past and present. . . . We can all use not just a good refresher...
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From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New TherapyIn this powerful and deeply introspective account, psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl shares his firsthand experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and a sub-camp of Dachau. Rather than dwelling on the horrors of the Holocaust in detail, *From Death-Camp to Existentialism* focuses on the psychological...
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Survival in AuschwitzSurvival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before...
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The Swimmer of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of the Olympic Hero Who Swam for His LifeThe extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. "Sports writer Leblond revisits in his propulsive English-language debut the life of Alfred Nakache, an Olympic athlete who was forced to swim for his guards' entertainment at Auschwitz......
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The Quiet Travels of MarjorieMarjorie Valdez doesn't get lost- she just happens to find herself traveling between times.But on the edge of thirty and being laid off after moving to the South for a job, her future does seem uncertain. Rather than go back to California, she moves...
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The Four GracesNo Matter What Life Throws at Them, the Grace Sisters Always Have Each OtherThe four Grace sisters--Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie--love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the sisters and their...
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Love Me Do! the Beatles' ProgressAuthor: Michael BraunPublisher: Graymalkin MediaPublished: 10/01/2019Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60dISBN: 9781631682711
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." -Publishers WeeklyGeorge Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home....
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The Bridge to TybeeIn the shadow of World War II, four friends return to their hometown of Savannah, Georgia, forever changed by their experiences overseas. As they return to the familiar streets of their youth, the camaraderie they once cherished feels comforting and alien. Tybee Beach, a...
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I've Been Here Before: When Souls of the Holocaust ReturnIs there a soul that outlives the body? Could that soul come back to a new body carrying the memories of the former? Is there any evidence that makes reincarnation not only plausible but likely? Through 100 first-person stories, author Sara Rigler introduces readers...
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Never CloserWhen your life changes in a moment, how do you rewrite your story?In 1940s Britain, with the Second World War raging, Alice is working in a laboratory developing a new miracle medicine. Made to leave school at sixteen and abandon her aspiration to be...
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club MusicTough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years' worth of interviews with dozens of DJs,...
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of AuschwitzHaving lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept...
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