The Newspaper Boy: Coming of Age in Birmingham, Al, During the Civil Rights Era, Paperback - Chervis Isom

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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

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Seen through the eyes of an intellectually ambitious son of immigrant parents, Concrete Steps is the story of a boy growing up in the 1940s and '50...

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A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel.

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Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

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For many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel law in an effort to stifle free spee...

Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

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