Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, Paperback - Howard Bryant

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Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Barack ObamaNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softb...

President Barack Obama's #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of his childhood and young adult years, a compelling journey through family, race and...

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Reducere. This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron--one of baseball's immortal figures--is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who thr...

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Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

Alexandra, a young mixed-race barrister, gives us a fresh perspective on a broken criminal justice system still dominated by a privileged few.

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The girls of Hamilton High School are going on strike. Sick of the rivalry between their boyfriends' American football and soccer teams, Lissa and ...

Reducere. For a full nine months, 18-year-old Megan Bryant kept her pregnancy a secret. With an ever-growing stomach, her senior class production of Little S...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Frankie MoffattIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 68Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 201 x 1...

Reducere. As a man who played baseball brilliantly despite near-constant pain from a succession of injuries, Mickey Mantle knew something about courage. In T...

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Reducere. If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a ...

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Reducere. In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward ...

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and...

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The development of race relations in the period from the Brixton Riots to Brexit is considered through the lens of black British sportspeople, with...