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  • Augustus Tolton

    The Church Is the True Liberator

    by Joyce Duriga ...
    Series series People of God
    Father Augustus Tolton was the first identified black American ordained to the priesthood in the United States. He was born into slavery and escaped to freedom with his mother and siblings under harrowing circumstances. Throughout his life he displayed a great devotion to the Lord and the Catholic faith despite facing racism within the Church at nearly every turn. Still, he felt and preached that ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Helen Prejean

    Death Row's Nun

    by Joyce Duriga ...
    Series series People of God
    No person has worked more effectively toward the abolition of the death penalty in the United States than Helen Prejean, CSJ. Her best-selling book Dead Man Walking, and the hit Hollywood film adaptation in which she was played by Susan Sarandon, was a catalyst for drawing national attention to the issue. In the years since then, her continuing and often controversial work with death-row inmates ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

    by Tilar J. Mazzeo ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While ... Read more

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  • Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

    How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

    by Alison Arngrim ...
    Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim’s comic celebrity memoir of growing up as one of television’s most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With revealing behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series World Classics
    One of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life. ... Read more

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  • Chasing Chaos

    My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid

    by Jessica Alexander ...
    Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic intern, eager to contribute to the work of the international humanitarian aid community. But the world that she encountered in the field was dramatically different than anything she could have imagined. It was messy, chaotic, and difficult—but she was hooked.In this honest and irreverent memoir, she ... Read more

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  • Love Your Sister

    by Samuel Johnson, Connie Johnson ...
    Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015A searingly honest memoir of family, cancer, love ... and unicycles by the founders of the Love your Sister charity, Connie and Samuel Johnson, that will inspire and they hope get people talking about boobs!Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close. Faced with the devastating news that they would soon be separated ... Read more

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  • The Story of a Pioneer: Autobiography of Anna Howard Shaw

    by Anna Howard Shaw ...
    Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Contents: First Memories In the Wilderness High-School and College Days The Wolf at the Door Shepherd of a Divided Flock Cape Cod Memories The Great Cause Drama in the Lecture-Field "Aunt Susan" The ... Read more

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  • Mona Parsons

    From Privilege to Prison, From Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe

    by Andria Hill-Lehr ...
    The biography reveals the thrilling life story of a Canadian actress who went from dancing on Broadway to daring acts of survival in WWII.Even as a young girl, Mona Louise Parsons stood out for her elegance and theatrical flair. But despite the many roles she's played on the stage, the epic story of her real life always stole the show. After growing up in Nova Scotia, she was a chorus girl in ... Read more

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  • Revolution's End

    The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA

    by Brad Schreiber ...
    Award-Winner in the “Multicultural Non-Fiction” category of the 2017 International Book AwardsSilver Award winner for True Crime for the Independent Publisher Book Awards2022 William Randolph Hearst Awardee for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism from the Hearst Journalism Awards Program***Forty years after the Patty Hearst “trial of the century,” people still don’t know the true story ... Read more

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  • My Path Leads to Tibet

    The Inspiring Story of the Blind Woman Who Brought Hope to the Children of Tibet

    by Sabriye Tenberken ...
    While studying Chinese and Asian civilizations in college, Sabriye Tenberken was stunned to learn that in Tibet blind children were living in appalling conditions—shunned by society, abandoned, and left to their own devices. Sabriye, who had lost her sight at the age of twelve as the result of a retinal disease, promised herself early on that she would never allow her blindness to turn her into an ... Read more

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  • African American Heritage Super Pack #2

    Courage and Perseverance

    by Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Nella Larsen, Mary Prince, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right. These books shed light on ... Read more

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