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Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Train travel always leads to great adventures; the countryside, like a moving picture show, unrolls itself before one's eyes. One is transported to the wild places of earth - forest, mountain, desert; and always there is the counterpoint between life within the train and life without. Train travel, being both constrictred in time and space, magnifies character, intensifies relationships, unites the disparate. Ordinary people become extra-ordinary,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.' JAMES BALDWIN The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George - publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide - and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite - heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus?s ancestors - they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
?I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.? Martin Luther King III was one of those four little children mentioned in Martin Luther King?s groundbreaking ?I Have a Dream? speech. In this memoir, Martin Luther King Jr.?s son gives an intimate look at the man and the father behind the civil rights leader. Mr. King?s remembrances...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of...
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