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  • Long Shot

    The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter

    by Craig Hodges, Rory Fanning ...
    In this memoir, the Chicago Bulls basketball star details his life on the court as an athlete and off the court as an activist.As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worth Fighting For

    An Army Ranger's Journey Out of the Military and Across America

    by Rory Fanning ...
    "Fanning combines memoir, travelogue, political tract, and history lesson in this engaging account of his 3,000-mile solo walk from Virginia to California" ( Publishers Weekly).Just days after the US military covered up the death by friendly fire of Pat Tillman, Rory Fanning—who served in the same unit as Tillman—left the Army Rangers as a conscientious objector. Disquieted by his tours in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • On Liberty

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  • Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    by Maurice Herzog ...
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    Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers ... Read more

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  • The Mauritanian (originally published as Guantánamo Diary)

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  • The Immortal Irishman

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