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  • At the Dark End of the Street

    Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

    by Danielle L. McGuire ...
    Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men."An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington PostRosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    At the Dark End of the Street

    Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

    by Danielle L. McGuire ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written.In this ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • U.S. Women's History

    Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

    by Jacqueline Castledine, Anne Valk, Nancy A. Hewitt, Danielle Phillips, Rebecca Tuuri, Ariella Rotramel, Danielle L. McGuire0, Christina Greene1, Jen Manion2, Andrea Estepa3, Kirsten Delegard4 ...
    In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Freedom Rights

    New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

    Edited by Danielle L. McGuire, John Dittmer ...
    Series series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and political factors that influenced the movement's development and growth. He urged his fellow scholars to connect the "local with the national, the political ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Algiers Motel Incident

    by John Hersey ...
    From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.On the evening of July 25, 1967, on the third night of the 12th Street Riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel. Acting on a report of gunfire, officers rounded up the occupants of the motel's annex—several black men and two white women—and proceeded to beat them and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Algiers Motel Incident

    by John Hersey ...
    From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.On the evening of July 25, 1967, on the third night of the 12th Street Riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel. Acting on a report of gunfire, officers rounded up the occupants of the motel's annex—several black men and two white women—and proceeded to beat them and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

    by Richard D Kahlenberg ...
    Narrated by Graham Winton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about itThe last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.While ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • The Children

    by David Halberstam ...
    "The early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before" in this history from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( Wall Street Journal ).The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam's brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • House of Outrageous Fortune

    Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

    by Michael Gross ...
    “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money, and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times).A New York Times bestseller that unveils Fifteen Central Park West, the legendary Manhattan luxury ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Nutcracker

    Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album

    by Shana Alexander ...
    New York Times Bestseller: The "compelling" story of Frances Schreuder, who persuaded her son to kill her multimillionaire father, Franklin Bradshaw ( The Washington Post Book World).In August of 1983 Shana Alexander, acclaimed journalist and chronicler of the lives and criminal trials of Jean Harris and Patty Hearst, wrote to New York City ballet patron Frances Schreuder on the eve of her murder ... Read more

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  • Undisputed Truth

    by Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman ...
    “Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street JournalPhilosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all ... Read more

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  • Crazy Town

    The Rob Ford Story

    by Robyn Doolittle ...
    Rob Ford's drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video of Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine. Her dogged pursuit of the story uncovered disturbing details about the mayor’s past and shone a light on the history of substance abuse and criminal behaviour that has ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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