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  The Unchained: Powerful Life...

  Frederick Douglass, Booker T....

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  This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War:
  Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)
  The Underground Railroad
  Harriet Jacobs: The Moses of Her People
  Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
  The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave!
  The Confessions of Nat Turner
  Narrative of Sojourner Truth
  The History of Mary Prince
  Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William & Ellen Craft)
  Thirty Years a Slave (Louis Hughes)
  Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green
  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
  Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley)
  Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson)
  Fifty Years in Chains (Charles Ball)
  Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward)
  Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
  The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave 
  The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson)
  A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold)
  From the Darkness Cometh the Light (Lucy A. Delaney)
  Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, a Slave in the United States of America
  Narrative of Joanna
  Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box
  Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
  Buried Alive 
  Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain
  Documents:
  The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade
  History of American Abolitionism from 1787-1861
  Pictures of Slavery in Church and State
  Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave
  Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
  The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act
  Emancipation Proclamation
  Gettysburg Address
  XIII Amendment 
  Civil Rights Act of 1866
  XIV Amendment 
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  Woman Who Changed her Brain -...

  Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

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  “A Revolutionary Approach to Learning Disabilities”This is the story and work of a remarkable woman. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities. Undaunted, she used her strengths to develop brain exercises to overcome her neurological deficits. Not only did she build herself a better brain, she developed a brain training program that has helped thousands of others do the same and changed countless lives. Young’s work is one of the first examples of the extensive and practical application of “neuroplasticity.” As the individuals described in this book change their brains, readers see how the brain works and what a profound impact improved mental capacity has on how we can participate in the world. Here her personal story is interwoven with fascinating accounts of the clinical mysteries and triumphant stories that Barbara has encountered during her career.

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  Warrior King - The Triumph and...

  Nathan Sassaman, Joe Layden

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  The startling and controversial memoir of combat and betrayal, written by one of the most prominent members of the U.S. fighting forces in Iraq.A West Point graduate, a former star quarterback who carried Army to its first bowl victory, and a courageous warrior who had proven himself on the battlefield time and again, Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman was one of the most celebrated officers in the United States military. Commanding over 800 soldiers in the heart of the insurgency-ravaged Sunni Triangle in Iraq, his unit's job was to seek out and eliminate terrorists and loyalists to Saddam Hussein, while simultaneously rebuilding the region's infrastructure and introducing democratic processes to a broken people. Sassaman's tactics were highly aggressive, his methods innovative, and his success in Iraq nearly unparalleled. Yet Sassaman will always be known for a fateful decision to cover up the alleged drowning of an Iraqi by his men, in which they forced two detainees to jump into the Tigris River. Sassaman's decision led to the downfall of his impressive career and sent shockwaves through the American military. Warrior King is the explosive memoir of one of the most deeply involved members of the U.S. military in Iraq. This is the first audiobook to take readers from the overnight brutality of combat to the daunting daytime humanitarian tasks of rebuilding Iraq to the upper echelons of the Pentagon to show how and why the war has gone horribly wrong.

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  History of the Four Georges and...

  Justin McCarthy

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  In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on the stage that bulky, big-spender, George IV, his bumbling brother, William IV, the impulsive Liberal loose cannon, Lord Brougham, George Canning, true author of the Monroe Doctrine, and Earl Grey and Lord John Russell and their struggle to pass the great Parliamentary Reform Bill of 1832. - Summary by Pamela Nagami

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  Oliver Twist

  Charles Dickens

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  Named a "national institution" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story.

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  The Hockneys - Never Worry What...

  John Hockney

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  ‘The most charming… portrait of this ever-popular artist… so enormously appealing: good-natured, bluntly told, skimmed with Yorkshire humour… This is a story of sticky jam tarts, catching tadpoles in jars, torchlit conversations under the bedclothes, gossipy queues at the butcher’s and hikes among the hedgerows under swallow-strewn skies.’ The Telegraph 
  ‘Never worry what the neighbours think’ was the philosophy that Kenneth Hockney used to inspire his children – David Hockney, one of the world’s greatest living artists and siblings John, Paul, Philip and Margaret – to each choose their own route in life. 
  The Hockney’s is a never before seen insight into the lives of the family by youngest brother John, from growing up in the Second World War in Bradford through to their diverse lives across three continents. Hardship, successes as well as close and complex relationships are poignantly illustrated with private photographs. 
  With a rare and spirited look into the lives of an ordinary family with extraordinary stories, we begin to understand the creative freedom that led to their successful careers and the launchpad for an artist’s work that has inspired and continues to inspire generations across the world.

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