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The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by The Freedom Writers

Published: 1999-10-12

Paperback: 292 pages

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Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-ris...

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The Freedom Writers Diary: Movie-Tie-In: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell

Published: 2006-12-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 608 pages

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#1 National BestsellerWinner of the John Gardner Fiction AwardA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistIn his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragica...

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Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

by Malika Oufkir

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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Malika Oufkirs profound and heartbreaking memoir, Stolen Lives, a New York Times best seller, told of her familys twenty-year imprisonment in a Moroccan desert jail and their eventual breath-taking escape. It became a huge national best seller and was only the second non-fiction title ever...

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Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter

by Carrie McCray

Published: 1999-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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In this loving remembrance of her mother, Carrie Allen McCray portrays the life of a woman who worked to beat down the barriers to equality. Born eleven years after the end of the Civil War, the daughter of a white Confederate general and his black servant, Mary Rice Hayes Allen was public...

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Freedom's Stand

by Jeanette Windle

Published: 2011-05-18

Paperback: 464 pages

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Set in contemporary Afghanistan, Freedom's Stand concludes Veiled Freedom's story of three unlikely allies who came together in on Kabul's dusty streets in their own personal quests for truth and freedom. But in a country where political and religious injustice runs rampant, the cost of either may be...

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Freefall

by Kristen Heitzmann

Published: 2006-11-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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When a young woman stumbles out of the Hanalei Mountains on the island of Kauai with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Cameron Pierce reluctantly agrees to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding her arrival. As pieces begin to fall into place, he suspects her injuries were no...

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Freeing the World to Death : Essays on the American Empire

by William Blum

Published: 2004-09-15

Paperback: 336 pages

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This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:'The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed''Cuban Political Prisoners . . . in the United States''What do the Imperial Mafia Wan...

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Freeman

by Leonard Jr. Pitts

Published: 2012-05-08

Paperback: 432 pages

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Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Phil...

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A French Country Murder

by Peter Steiner

Published: 2003-03-12

Hardcover: 246 pages

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When political intrigue drove Louis Morgon from a successful career at the State Department, he moved to a cottage in France, far from Washington and what he called ?the sordid world.? He took up painting. He grew vegetables and flowers. He ate long, lovely meals on the terrace overlooki...