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Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad

by Betty DeRamus

Published: 2010-02-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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"Much of what we think we know about African American history isn't completely true," says Betty DeRamus in the introduction to Freedom by Any Means. "According to the usual story, slaves gained their freedom by running away, being freed by their owners, buying their way out of bondage o...

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The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II

by Peter Eisner

Published: 2005-05-31

Paperback: 352 pages

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Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, this a page?turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in Spain during World War II. As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were...

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Freedom Next Time

by John Pilger

Published: 2007-07-03

Paperback: 400 pages

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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

by Raymond Arsenault

Published: 2011-03-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movemen...

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The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by The Freedom Writers

Published: 1999-10-12

Paperback: 292 pages

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Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-ris...

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The Freedom Writers Diary: Movie-Tie-In: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell

Published: 2006-12-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 608 pages

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#1 National BestsellerWinner of the John Gardner Fiction AwardA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistIn his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragica...

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Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

by Malika Oufkir

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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Malika Oufkirs profound and heartbreaking memoir, Stolen Lives, a New York Times best seller, told of her familys twenty-year imprisonment in a Moroccan desert jail and their eventual breath-taking escape. It became a huge national best seller and was only the second non-fiction title ever...

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Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter

by Carrie McCray

Published: 1999-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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In this loving remembrance of her mother, Carrie Allen McCray portrays the life of a woman who worked to beat down the barriers to equality. Born eleven years after the end of the Civil War, the daughter of a white Confederate general and his black servant, Mary Rice Hayes Allen was public...

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Freedom's Stand

by Jeanette Windle

Published: 2011-05-18

Paperback: 464 pages

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Set in contemporary Afghanistan, Freedom's Stand concludes Veiled Freedom's story of three unlikely allies who came together in on Kabul's dusty streets in their own personal quests for truth and freedom. But in a country where political and religious injustice runs rampant, the cost of either may be...