Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

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Reducere. In The Orange Trees of Baghdad, Leilah Nadir journeys to uncover her lost family roots in war-torn Iraq. Born to an Iraqi father and an English mot...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. Th...

Discover the REAL truth behind African American History.You will be amazed to learn about some of the great African Americans and their legacies.He...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. Black churches and their leaders are at the front line of a war for the lives of people bound by fear, anger, and idolatry. Sociologists, politicia...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

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Reducere. Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological fami...

Find your favourite royals as they travel to glamorous locations around the globe - from Buckingham Palace to Times Square! Can you spot the new ro...

Reducere. NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-Long shares the riveting and redemptive story of ...

Emmy Award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Lionel Friedberg has spent 50 years making films as diverse as full-length theatr...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a dee...

Reducere. Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between...

Reducere. A new shipment of animals was on its way to the zoo. The silly driver dropped them off at Old Ms Martha's Farm instead. The zoo animals must go to ...

By the grace of God, I am here today to tell my story; a tribute to God to shout to the world how awesome he is and the determination I had to find...

A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shines...

Reducere. In this gorgeously written and "vividly fascinating" (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins...

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A truly original story of life in and after care. A unique account of trans-racial fostering which focuses on identity, family history and loss. Ca...

Reducere. Everyone thinks their own family is crazy. In these 101 stories of crazy, embarassing, annoying and dysfunctional families, Chicken Soup for the So...

The irresistibly funny and very moving story of one woman's quest to find out if self-help really can change her life.

Reducere. "DON'T believe the naysayers. The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you'll make it--is alive and well."--N...

Reducere. When the Italian-born economist Luigi Zingales came to the United States in the 1980s, he embraced the American Dream: the belief that what brings ...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

Meriel Schindler tells the story of Cafe Schindler, blending memoir and family history.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Meriel SchindlerNumb...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...

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Reducere. Trace, document, record, and write your family's history with this easy-to-read, step-by-step authoritative guide. Finally, here is the fun, easy-t...

Reducere. Laura Schenone's original goal was simple enough: to find her great-grandmother's recipe for ravioli. But things get more complicated as she reunit...

Reducere. When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as "o...

Get ready for a challenging good time This hidden picture book is perfect for the busy adult, who wants to escape his/her daily routines every once...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard ...

There's just too much black history to think you could ever know enough. Did you ever think that African-American history began in America? Ever wo...

Reducere. From the host of the Travel Channel's -The Wild Within.- A hunt for the American buffalo--an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that...

This is a puzzle book in a large, fun format. See if you can spot a hummingbird in the jungle, four turtles in the ocean, seven bats flying through...

Reducere. I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With......S Can you find what it is among the colorful beach pictures? And, more importantly, can your...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how bla...

Reducere. I Fit IN Just Right! From grandma, to papaw, to aunties and cousins. This beautifully illustrated children's book will have your child wanting to k...

For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood, and a love letter...

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DescriptionTurn each wheel in this fun novelty board book to create some hilarious costumes Young children will enjoy finding the superhero's under...