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  • The Thunder of Angels

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow

    The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council members who tried to stop them. In the end, the boycott brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to ... Leer más

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  • Fighting the Devil in Dixie

    How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama

    Shortly after the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Ku Klux Klan--determined to keep segregation as the way of life in Alabama--staged a resurgence, and the strong-armed leadership of governor George C. Wallace, who defied the new civil rights laws, empowered the Klan's most violent members. As Wallace's power grew, however, blacks began fighting back in the courthouses and schoolhouses, ... Leer más

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  • The Remembered Gate

    Memoirs by Alabama Writers

    Series series Deep South Books
    Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in AlabamaIn The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural ... Leer más

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  • He Slew the Dreamer

    My Search for the Truth about James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King

    Author William Bradford Huie was one of the most celebrated figures of twentieth-century journalism. A pioneer of "checkbook journalism," he sought the truth in controversial stories when the truth was hard to come by. In the case of James Earl Ray, Huie paid Ray and his original attorneys $40,000 for cooperation in explaining his movements in the months before Martin Luther King’s assassination ... Leer más

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    Series series Angel Nova Publication
    Anne of Green Gables (1908) is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince ... Leer más

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  • Main Street

    Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart.When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Carol is appalled at the backwardness of Gopher Prairie. But ... Leer más

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  • The Custom of the Country

    de Edith Wharton ...
    In "The Custom of the Country," Edith Wharton explores the intricacies of American social stratification and the often-destructive pursuit of wealth and status. Set in the early 20th century, the novel follows the ambitious Undine Spragg, a young woman whose relentless quest for upward mobility leads her through a series of turbulent relationships and societal encounters. Wharton's incisive prose ... Leer más

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  • The Best American Essays 2011

    Edición de Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we ... Leer más

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  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 2 (30 short stories)

    Series Libro 2 - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
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  • More New York Stories

    The Best of the City Section of The New York Times

    Edición de Constance Rosenblum ...
    What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair with the Big Apple, and each contributed to the canon of writing New York has inspired by way of the New York Times City Section, a part of the paper that once defined Sunday afternoon leisure for the denizens of the five boroughs. Former City Section editor Constance Rosenblum has ... Leer más

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  • Empire Writing

    An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918

    Edición de Elleke Boehmer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short ... Leer más

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  • West of the Jordan

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    Series Libro 19 - Bluestreak
    This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identities. Mawal is the stable one, living steeped in the ... Leer más

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