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  • Say Sorry

    A Harrowing Childhood In Catholic Orphanages

    by Ann Thompson ...
    Conceived out of wedlock, Ann was just two months old when placed in the care of a Catholic orphanage. From the beginning, she was taught her mother was sinful and that she would be too unless the devil was beaten from her soul. She was sexually abused from an early age and forced to work long hours on the orphanage farm. At night, three or four nuns performed the grisly ritual of stripping Ann ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fear and Fury

    The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

    by Heather Ann Thompson ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blood in the Water (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

    by Heather Ann Thompson ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. • Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA“Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Neighbor From Hell : The True Story of Angela Stoldt

    by Ann Thompson ...
    Angela Stoldt had anger issues...One day she became so enraged at her neighbor that she stabbed him to death. She then placed several of his body parts in her oven and stove in an effort to cremate him...When her hare-brained scheme didn't work, she enlisted the aid of her own children to scatter her neighbor's body parts around them advising them to tell anyone who asked that the body parts were ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Promised Heaven but Led Me to Hell

    by Ann Thompson ...
    My childhood abuse in the orphanage, is New Zealand's shameful, dirty secret of physical, mental and sexual abuse of innocent children by nuns, lay staff, the older girls and the priest and bullying at two orphanages in Christchurch New Zealand. From the age of five to ten old I was made to work on their farm and laundry at Mount Magdala – St. Joseph Girls Orphanage then from ten to nineteen years ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pathway To ICU

    Your constant companion during a transition to ICU nursing

    by Karen Ann Thompson ...
    Pathway to ICU is a comprehensive guidebook tailored for aspiring ICU nurses, offering invaluable insights and resources for nursing education and professional growth. Designed as an essential nurse reference and ICU guide, this handbook serves as a roadmap for nurses transitioning from medical or surgical floors to the demanding realm of intensive care.Inside, you'll discover:Essential insights ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whose Detroit?

    Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

    by Heather Ann Thompson ...
    **"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."**â• Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

    by Laurie Ann Thompson ...
    Illustrated by Sean Qualls ...
    Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story—which was turned into a film, Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey—is nothing short of remarkable.Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people—but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Say Sorry

    A Harrowing Childhood in two Catholic Orphanages

    by Ann Thompson ...
    Ann just two months old when she was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Christchurch, New Zealand. She was physically and sexually abused by religious and lay staff at the orphanage and forced to work long hours on the orphanage farm and laundries. This is one of the first books to look at abuse within New Zealand Catholic institutions. I was stolen from my mother arms by St Vincent De Paul who ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

    Edited by Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, H. R. Woudhuysen, Richard Proudfoot ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!

    by Ammi-Joan Paquette, Laurie Ann Thompson ...
    Illustrated by Lisa K. Weber ...
    Series Book 1 - Two Truths and a Lie
    “Considering the fresh attention being paid to teaching a skeptical approach to information evaluation, this series opener couldn’t be better timed. A brief but savvy guide to responsible research methods adds further luster to this crowd pleaser.” —ALA Booklist (starred review)Two Truths and a Lie is the first book in a fascinating new series that presents some of the most crazy-but-true stories ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections

    by Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, Heather Ann Thompson ...
    Series series
    Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot, particularly for poor, black, and Latino voters, has called attention to the historical roots of issues related to voting access.Perhaps most notably, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD