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  • Coming of Age in Mississippi

    The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

    by Anne Moody ...
    The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change.“Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago TribuneBorn to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On the Loom

    A Modern Weaver's Guide

    The textile artist and author brings the ancient art of weaving into the modern day in this illustrated guide featuring step-by-step tutorials.In On the Loom, Maryanne Moodie teaches the basics of this simple and beautiful craft with valuable information on essential stitches and tools. Along with twenty-four fashion and home projects, she also teaches you how to make your own looms.Organized by ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baby Market

    The Case for Adoption Reform

    by Anne Moody ...
    A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today.Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of The Children Money Can Buy, The Baby Market illustrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in infant adoption over the past two decades, resulting in what feels like a wild west of adoption in which money is the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Children Money Can Buy

    Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption

    by Anne Moody ...
    The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., ethical concerns related to international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays in ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Maryanne Moodie's Modern Weaver

    Where Color Meets Loom

    From fiber artist and weaving expert Maryanne Moodie, the perfect guide to weaving bold, colorful piecesMaryanne Moodie’s Modern Weaver offers a wealth of information focused on color theory, designed to help readers better select their own palettes for their custom creations. With detailed instructions and photography for each project, this book is both beautiful and informative. And with ... Read more

    $16.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Coming of Age in Mississippi

    by Anne Moody ...
    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 30 min

    Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the fear of being killed just because I was black." In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Old French Chronicle of Morea

    An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade

    Edited by Anne Van Arsdall, Helen Moody ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    Numerous Byzantine and Western sources describing the events of the Fourth Crusade have now been translated into English. However, the same is not true for material on Frankish Greece, despite this region’s importance to late medieval crusading. The Chronicle of Morea is the key source for the history of the Frankish states established in Greece after the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 and ... Read more

    Was $87.99 USD Now $78.99 USD

  • A Century of Controversy

    Constitutional Reform in Alabama

    A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitutionAlabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most, of the state’s historic difficulties and inequities. Chief among these is a poorly funded school system, an imbalanced tax system that favors special business interests, legislated racism, and unchecked urban sprawl. Many ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

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    Shattered Dreams

    My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

    by Irene Spencer ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's six brothers, one sister, and numerous ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave narratives written by a woman, Jacobs's work deals frankly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus