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Polina
Published: 2014-01-16
Kindle Edition: 208 pages
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As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojin...
Black Cross
Published: 1995-11-01
Paperback: 656 pages
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It is January 1944. The whole world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe. But in England, Winston Churchill has learned that Nazi scientists have developed Sarin—a horrifying new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. Only a desperate gamble can avert disaster.Two men—a pacifist A...
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky
Published: 2006-05-02
Paperback: 277 pages
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Jeanne Ray's New York Times bestselling debut, Julie and Romeo, introduced two unforgettable star-crossed lovers whose feuding families threatened to foil their romance. Now Julie and Romeo are back -- and this time Lady Luck is throwing a few curveballs their way. . . . Julie Roseman an...
Small Blessings: A Novel
Published: 2014-08-12
Hardcover: 320 pages
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From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at the bookshop, and the ten-year old son he never knew he had. Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy co...
Where We Belong
Published: 2013-06-26
Paperback: 412 pages
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"Hyde is a remarkable, insightful storyteller, creating full-bodied characters whose dialogue rings true, with not a word to spare." -Library Journal Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mom are poised at the edge of homelessness... again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has an...
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Published: 2014-07-15
Hardcover: 352 pages
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Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! In this â??charming debutâ? (People) from one of Swedenâ??s most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.Meet Ove....
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
Published: 1977-07-12
Paperback: 768 pages
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An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
The Talented Tenth
Published: 2013-04-27
Paperback: 30 pages
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst,...
W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Published: 1995-04-15
Paperback: 328 pages
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Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The eighteen selections include...
The Betrayal Of The Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson
Published: 1997-03-22
Paperback: 480 pages
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Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877–1901 and subsequently expanded) is the only full-scale accou...
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