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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james h meriwether”
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  • Tears, Fire, and Blood

    The United States and the Decolonization of Africa

    by James H. Meriwether ...
    In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world’s population. Decolonization, Black and Brown freedom movements, the establishment of the United Nations and NATO, an exploding Cold War, a burgeoning world human rights movement, all became part of the dramatic events that swept through Africa at a furious ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Proudly We Can Be Africans

    Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961

    by James H. Meriwether ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social lives of African Americans. Paying particular attention to such important figures and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Daddy Was a Number Runner

    A Novel

    by Louise Meriwether, Nellie Y. McKay ...
    This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin ( Publishers Weekly).Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

    by William Faulkner ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material.This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Note on A Fable.” It also ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker ...
    “I recommend a book, Little Brother. . . . It makes us understand what the desert crossing is like: the trafficking of migrants, imprisonment, torture, the sea journey" (Pope Francis, quoted in La Civilta Cattolica). This heartbreaking story about an African migrant takes you inside the refugee crisis and is based on the author's own life.Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the ... Read more

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  • Fortune

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    by Lenny Bartulin ...
    An audacious, entertaining historical epic spanning continents and centuries, for readers of David Mitchell, Colum McCann, Kate Atkinson, and Eleanor Catton.Fortune is a dazzling, endlessly surprising historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Armée into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness the emperor in his glory, ... Read more

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  • A Ritchie Boy

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    From the author of Tasa’s Song, an extraordinary narrative about one young immigrant’s triumph in America, inspired by true events.Eli Stoff and his parents, Austrian Jews, escape to America just after Germany takes over their homeland. Within five years, Eli enlists in the US Army and, thanks to his understanding of the German language and culture, joins thousands of others like him who become ... Read more

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  • The Best Part of Us

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    by Sally Cole-Misch ...
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  • Home Truths

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    "Rich, memorable . . .Lyrical and highly emotional" this dysfunctional family saga is a "tearjerker [that] will appeal to fans of poignant, heartfelt novels" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).Angie Watts once had what seemed like an idyllic life: a house in a small town in the English countryside with her beloved husband Steve and their three children.When her oldest son, Liam, grows from a ... Read more

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    A Novel

    by Meng Jin ...
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  • Truth, by Omission

    by Daniel Beamish ...
    The first casualty is truth.A heart-wrenching saga set on three continents, over four decades, Truth, by Omission seamlessly intertwines factual events of recent times in Africa with a compelling set of contemporary fictional circumstances.After surviving a desperate childhood of lawlessness and violence, Alfred Olyontombo makes his way to a refugee camp while Rwanda’s genocide rages behind him. ... Read more

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  • More

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    by Hakan Günday ...
    Translated by Zeynep Beler ...
    The award-winning More, by one of Turkey’s leading underground writers, is the world’s first novel about the refugee crisis.The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred miles, they boarded ships and were lost in the night.”Gaza lives on the shores of the Aegean Sea. At the age of nine he becomes a human trafficker, like his father. Together with his father and local ... Read more

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