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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Sojourner Truth, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
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Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
One of NPR's Best Books of 2021
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021
"The scope is sweeping, the writing is beautiful. It's an epic story worthy of the impact this one case has had on the American
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When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic's Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through magazines, books, a Broadway musical, and a Hollywood movie, she became "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," but in the process, her life story was, distorted beyond recognition. Even her name was changed, she was never, known as "Molly", during her lifetime. Kristen Iversen's Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth is the first...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
10) Dangerous Jane
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2017]
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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English
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Describes the life and accomplishments of the founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, where she provided aid to immigrant families and whose legacy is still evident today.
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Peachtree Publishing Company, Inc
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2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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Sometimes, one moment changes a person's life. And that person goes on to change other lives. That's what happened to Frances Perkins. After she witnessed the 1911 catastrophic fire at the Triangle Waist Company, in which one hundred and forty-six people died, she devoted her life to improving conditions for workers. Frances became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet. As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped...
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"From Samuel Adams to the students from Parkland, march through history with the heroic revolutionary protesters who changed America."-
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Viking
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2019.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's...
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Castalia House
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2015.
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234 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corporations and churches to video games and government, there is nowhere that remains entirely free of their intolerant thought and speech policing. Because the SJW agenda of diversity, tolerance, inclusiveness, and equality...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"All her life, Eleanor Roosevelt hoped to "leave some mark upon the world." She was a shy child who found joy in helping others. A passionate young adult who longed for adventure. An independent young woman who formed her own opinions. A trustworthy partner who worked tirelessly for change. So when her husband became president and she became first lady, Eleanor was ready to make her mark. With characteristic candor, compassion, and courage, she...
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