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Long Walk to Freedom-the Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections (HRW Library)

Published: 2000-09-22

Hardcover: 507 pages

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An international hero, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and leader of South Africa's antiapartheid movement chronicles his life, including his tribal years, his time spent in prison, and his return to lead his people. 175,000 first printing. Major ad/promo.The famously taciturn South...

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A Long Walk to Freedom: Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1

by Nelson Mandela

Published: 2002-11-21

Paperback: 512 pages

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The memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, "Long Walk to Freedom" recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his beginning in the Transkei to his being taken to Robben Island, this is the story of how a man rose so far, only to...

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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

Published: 2013-10-08

Paperback: 656 pages

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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century...

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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

by Linda Sue Park

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 128 pages

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The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the po...

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The Long Walk

by Stephen King

Published: 1999-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as ?The Long Walk.? If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying...On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as ?The Long Walk.? If you b...

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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows

by Brian Castner

Published: 2013-04-09

Paperback: 240 pages

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Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs were discovered, he and his men would lead the way in either disarming the deadly devices or searching through rubble and remains for clues to ...

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Library Edition)

by Slavomir Rawicz

Published: 2007-04-01

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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story. Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siber...

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

Published: 1997-12-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners? desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was se...

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz

Published: 2006-04-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir RawiczIn 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where endurin...

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A Long Way Down

by Nick Hornby

Published: 2006-05-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Hornby...