Letter from Birmingham Jail

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Author: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241339466

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This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.


We who Believe in Freedom

We who Believe in Freedom

Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 9780385468626

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A celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Grammy Award-winning musical group includes essays by each member


The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition)

The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition)

Author: The Freedom Writers

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2007-04-24

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0767928334

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was met by uncomprehending looks—none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding. Her students began recording their thoughts and feelings in their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers.” Consisting of powerful entries from the students’ diaries and narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an unforgettable story of how hard work, courage, and determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. In the two decades since its original publication, the book has sold more than one million copies and inspired a major motion picture Freedom Writers. And now, with this twentieth-anniversary edition, readers are brought up to date on the lives of the Freedom Writers, as they blend indispensable takes on social issues with uplifting stories of attending college—and watch their own children follow in their footsteps. The Freedom Writers Diary remains a vital read for anyone who believes in second chances.


This Is Water

This Is Water

Author: Kenyon College

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780316151467

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Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.


Freedom's Belle

Freedom's Belle

Author: Dianna Crawford

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780842319188

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This historical romance set in Tennessee Territory in the late 1700s is the story of Drew Reardon, an adventurous explorer, and Crystabelle Amherst, a lovely young school teacher on the run from an arranged marriage. This is the third and final book of the Reardon Brothers series.


This Is Not the End

This Is Not the End

Author: Sidney Bell

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0369761774

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Sometimes love finds you when and where you least expect it. Discover a new way of looking at family and happily ever after in this hopeful and deeply emotional novel, This Is Not the End. Zacary Trevor is the love of Anya Alexander’s life. Their sometimes tumultuous marriage has survived ups, downs, and all the in-betweens. With successful careers, a lovely home, and a beautiful child, domestic bliss is a hard-earned reality for two people whose hedonistic days are in the not-so-distant past. They’re happy. Zac’s best friend, the deeply reserved Cal Keller is the foundation of Zac's career and was the most important relationship of his life until Anya and their son came along. Anya can’t help but gravitate towards Cal, even if they don’t always get along. Even more, she’s drawn to the Zac she sees when he’s with Cal—a careful, cautious version of her husband, someone with hidden thoughts and desires kept secret even from her. It's a risk inviting Cal into their home. Zac should resist. He knows he should. But he can't. The idea at the life the three of them could have together is exhilarating. Redefining family might just be worth the risk. Previously published


Freedom's Teacher

Freedom's Teacher

Author: Katherine Mellen Charron

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0807833320

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Septima Poinsette Clark's gift to the civil rights movement was education. In the mid-1950s, this former public school teacher developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the po


Shut the Door

Shut the Door

Author: Amanda Marquit

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2006-02-21

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1429937866

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In the vein of "American Beauty," Shut the Door offers a glimpse into the world of a family in crisis. It focuses on two teenage sisters struggling to carve their identities as young adults, taking risks and undergoing disturbing transformations that go unchallenged by their emotionally absent parents. Meanwhile, their parents' marriage is disintegrating and no longer provides the support the girls so desperately need. Their father's prolonged absence on a business trip provides the impetus to reevaluate family roles and relationships--and the choices made are shocking. This evocative family portrait reveals just what happens when our support system falls away and we become disconnected from the ones we love the most.


We

We

Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

Published: 2023-03-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9356844836

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We is a dystopian novel written by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Originally drafted in Russian, the book could be published only abroad. It was translated into English in 1924. Even as the book won a wide readership overseas, the author's satiric depiction led to his banishment under Joseph Stalin's regime in the then USSR. The book's depiction of life under a totalitarian state influenced the other novels of the 20th century. Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to be not perfect but inhuman. Orwell claimed that Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied this. The novel is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State which assists mass surveillance. Here life is scientifically managed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by reason as the primary justification for the construct of the society. By way of formulae and equations outlined by the One State, the individual's behaviour is based on logic.