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  • Sissieretta Jones

    "The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933

    A biography of a distinguished African American musical pioneerMatilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American soprano during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, Jones also sang before four ... Leer más

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  • Harriet Tubman

    Freedom Seeker, Freedom Leader

    Series Libro 31 - Quest Biography
    Born in the United States and enslaved as a child, Harriet Tubman (circa 1820-1913) is one of the best-known figures connected to the Underground Railroad. Through her knowledge and outdoor survival skills, honed through her unpaid labour in the fields and through the later connections she made in the abolitionist community, Tubman was well poised to command her followers. By her discipline and ... Leer más

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  • The Goddess Pose

    The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

    New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West.When Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced around the world. Here Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who helped usher in a ... Leer más

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  • The Wife's Tale

    A Personal History

    A Finalist for The Governor General's Award for Nonfiction"The extraordinary memoir of a woman who lived through the cataclysmic events that shaped modern Ethiopian history. The narrative, which is lovingly and expertly put together by her granddaughter, is a window into a world that would otherwise be invisible to us." — Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for StoneIn this indelible memoir that ... Leer más

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  • The Wind in the Reeds

    A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken

    **2016 Christopher Award WinnerFrom acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art.**On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American ... Leer más

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  • Another Country – Growing Up In '50s Ireland

    Memoirs of a Dublin Childhood

    de Gene Kerrigan ...
    From First Communions to CIÉ Mystery Tours – the heartwarming story of award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan's childhood in Dublin in the '50s In his highly addictive style, Gene Kerrigan effortlessly reconstructs the Ireland of the 1950s and early '60s in which he grew up. An adult world of absolute moral certainties, casual cruelties and mass emigration; for children an age of innocence, but an ... Leer más

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  • Passage to Ararat

    Series series FSG Classics
    In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But ... Leer más

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  • "But Sir"

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    Merv was brought up as one of 14 children. His father was a farmer, and for most of his life, Merv was a farmer. He volunteered to join the army during the second World War, and was sent to Singapore. When a decision was made that Singapore could not hold against the Japanese, the Allied Forces were ordered to surrender. It could not have been realised at the time just how barbaric the Japanese ... Leer más

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  • Don't Let the Lipstick Fool You

    Foreword by Earvin "Magic" Johnson"Absolutely one of the best players ever to play the game." --Bill WaltonA three-time Olympic gold medalist, three-time MVP of the WNBA, and the first woman ever to dunk in a professional basketball game, Lisa Leslie is considered one of the greatest players in the history of women's basketball.But before the superstar was the child growing up too fast in South ... Leer más

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  • Beaches, Blood, and Ballots

    A Black Doctorâ??s Civil Rights Struggle

    This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and ... Leer más

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  • Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life

    The Definitive Short Biography of the Founding Father of Irish Republicanism

    de Henry Boylan ...
    The definitive short biography of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), the founding father of Irish republicanism Originally published in 1981 as part of the groundbreaking Gill's Irish Lives series, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life remains the most concise, accessible and authoritative introduction to one of Irish history's most seminal figures. Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of the United Irishmen, ... Leer más

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