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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.

An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.

A gutsy woman together with a stubborn dream.

A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an ...

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Dreams from My Father (Random House Large Print)
DescriptionIn this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns this his father—a figure he recognizes extra as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death ...
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What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing
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New thoughts and reflections from the authors of the inspirational New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me.

The extra than four hundred thousand readers stirred by the story of Ron Hall and Denver Moore will resonate together with the all new, stand-alone true stories of hope and healing offered in this ...

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Up From Slavery
DescriptionVividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings together with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held this the black man's salvation lay in education, industriousness and self-reliance. Nineteenth-century African American ...
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ManufacturerModern Library
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
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What would it get?

This was the question this Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it get to modify the lives of poor kids—not one by one, throughout heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way this could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to make the Harlem Kids’s ...
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)
DescriptionThe Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics this builds upon those shared understandings this pull us mutually as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's situate in the world, refreshingly candid concerning his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and ...
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life
Description2008 Retailer's Choice Prize winner!
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--particularly a football coach--to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl not including the ...
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Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
DescriptionAn international hero, winner of the Nobel Peace Award, and leader of South Africa's antiapartheid movement chronicles his life, counting his tribal years, his time spent in prison, and his return to lead his people. Simultaneous. The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Liberty. A good ...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
DescriptionSent by their mother to exist together with their devout, self-adequate grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age–and has to exist together with the ...
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