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  • Say Their Names

    How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

    This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Segregated Skies

    It was 1964 and Black men didn't fly commercial jets. But David Harris was about to change that ... After years of flying B-52 bombers in the United States Air Force, David Harris applied to be a pilot for commercial airliners, an opportunity no other African American before him---not even the famed Tuskegee Airmen---had ever been afforded. After receiving rejection after rejection, he finally ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shackles From the Deep

    Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy

    A pile of lime-encrusted shackles discovered on the seafloor in the remains of a ship called the Henrietta Marie, lands Michael Cottman, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and avid scuba diver, in the middle of an amazing journey that stretches across three continents, from foundries and tombs in England, to slave ports on the shores of West Africa, to present-day Caribbean plantations. This is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Segregated Skies

    David Harris's Trailblazing Journey to Rise Above Racial Barriers

    Unabridged

    2 hours 41 min

    It was 1964 and black men didn't fly commercial jets. But David Harris was about to change that ...After years of flying B-52 bombers in the United States Air Force, David Harris applied to be a pilot for commercial airliners, an opportunity no other African American before him--not even the famed Tuskegee Airmen--had ever been afforded. After receiving rejection after rejection, he finally signed ... Read more

    $19.60 USD

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    Say Their Names

    How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

    Unabridged

    11 hours 58 min

    This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

    by Yusef Salaam ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPRThis inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice.**They didn't know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's ... Read more

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  • The Great Escape

    A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

    by Saket Soni ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book of 2023Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore PrizeThe astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review).**In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian ... Read more

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  • Wandering in Strange Lands

    A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

    The bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing journeys to understand her roots, the Great Migration & the displacement of black people across America.One of TIME 's one hundred Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year"Required reading, accurately widening the lens of American history." — <str... ... Read more

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  • The Titanic: Lost and Found

    by Judy Donnelly ...
    Series series Step into Reading, Step 4
    Titanic. Just the name evokes tales of the doomed ship that have captivated people of all ages for more than 100 years.Early readers will enjoy this exciting account of the world's most famous disaster-at-sea and the discovery of it's remains many years later.Step 4 books are perfect for independent readers who are confident with simple sentences and are just starting to tackle paragraphs. ... Read more

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  • Mermaids

    Illustrated by Mel Grant ...
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    For thousands of years, people have claimed to have spotted mermaids in the waves and on the rocks. Some were beautiful with long flowing hair and lovely voices. But other mermaids liked to drag people down to their watery homes and eat them! If you thought mermaids were just pretty ladies with scaly tails, think again. There is more to these mythical creatures than meets the eye! ... Read more

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    What does a whale's skin feel like?How many miles can a whale travel in a year?What is baleen? How do whales eat with it?What is the biggest animal in the world? Is it even bigger than a football field?Learn the answers to these questions, and more.Find out what a whale looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts.All measurements in American and ... Read more

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  • History Smashers: The Titanic

    by Kate Messner ...
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    Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth behind the sinking of the Titanic with beloved educator/author Kate Messner. The fun mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels make this perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales.On April 15, 1912 an "unsinkable" ship called the Titanic unexpectedly hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. ... Read more

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