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41) Freedom riders
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
Pub. Date
2018
Description
What extraordinary place could be beautiful, strong and proud enough to serve as the grand finale for the mighty Mississippi River? Louisiana, of course. Only Louisiana with her impossibly gorgeous mix of people, language, nature, and history--and quilting traditions-- could fulfill such a task. Louisiana is the only state in the Union to be divided into parishes instead of counties-- one of many lasting influences of the state's French heritage....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This volume of food writing from the New Yorker proves again that famous weekly's reputation for literary and journalistic excellence. An anthology of reporting both recent and vintage, this book takes readers from the oyster beds of Long Island to the bistros of Paris, from artisanal tofu joints in Japan to a Miami restaurant serving Basque food to homesick Cubans. Along the way, lucky readers get to travel to fun food towns like San Francisco and...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"For fifty years, The Paris Review has published writings and interviews from the world's most brillant authors. Here to commemorate its golden anniversary is a diverse and illuminating anthology, with the greatest writers of the last half-century writing on the greatest subjects. It is a unique collection of stories, poetry, thoughts, and observations on the themes of modern life both great and trivial, as well as a compendium of timeless insights...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Featuring 80 Americans--from the famous to the unknown--this series of insightful observations completes the thought that the book's title introduces. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they arrive at their own personal beliefs but also how they share them with others.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society. Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers : the history of the Revolutionary...
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30 days by K Larsen// The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force novel by James Rollins// Above the Bridge by Deborah Garner// Aijlan: The Silk Revolution (The Lords of Misrule book 1) by Andy Graham// The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) by Michael Scott// The American Heiress by Dorothy Eden// Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key by S l Morgan// Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog// Armed and...
Description
30 days by K Larsen// The 6th Extinction: A Sigma Force novel by James Rollins// Above the Bridge by Deborah Garner// Aijlan: The Silk Revolution (The Lords of Misrule book 1) by Andy Graham// The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) by Michael Scott// The American Heiress by Dorothy Eden// Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key by S l Morgan// Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog// Armed and...
