Gravel and Grit: A White Boyhood in the Segregated South, Hardcover - Al Price

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African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

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A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

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A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world When The World in Flames b...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.Pub...

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Reducere. From famed New Yorker illustrator Garrett Price comes one of the lost treasures of American Comic Strips. White Boy celebrates the life and culture...

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): C MurphyNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

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Retired Navy SEAL and professional photographer Darren McBurnett takes readers behind the scenes into the elite SEAL training program, BUD/S, in Co...

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DescriptionElise Gravel wants to write a totally drab book; her characters want to let loose. Who's gonna win?Don't take the title as a metaphor: i...

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'It's a lost world out there'Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South S...

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This book is the story of Whistleblower Blake Percival. In 2011 Blake blew the whistle on the background investigation process of the United States...

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Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...

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Even in a lovely town like River Bluffs, Indiana, flipping houses can be a challenge. Especially when there's the proverbial skeleton in the closet...

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Reconstructs the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period. This book contains translations from over a dozen Tantras. It is useful fo...

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A PUPPY INSIDE MY HEAD, by award-winning author-illustrator Elise Gravel, helps children identify and deal with anxiety in an age-appropriate comic...

''To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change.'' -Peg Tyre, author...

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