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NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS

A Memoir

by Vernon Devers, Elizabeth Ann Atkins ...

NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS is a memoir celebrating a life of legacy, love and strong family values.Step into the heartwarming and inspiring tale of a man who lived a life that spanned nearly a century, leaving an indelible mark on his family and community. In NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS, we journey through the extraordinary life of a Shreveport, Louisiana ... Read more

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NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS is a memoir celebrating a life of legacy, love and strong family values.Step into the heartwarming and inspiring tale of a man who lived a life that spanned nearly a century, leaving an indelible mark on his family and community. In NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS, we journey through the extraordinary life of a Shreveport, Louisiana
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A Mighty Long Way

My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

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“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School“Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated PressWhen fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on ... Read more

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“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School“Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated PressWhen fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on
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South and West

From a Notebook

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always
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“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”—The New York Times Book Review“This is Smith at her finest.”—Library Journal, starred reviewSet deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddy’s dimestore. When she was sent ... Read more

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“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”—The New York Times Book Review“This is Smith at her finest.”—Library Journal, starred reviewSet deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddy’s dimestore. When she was sent
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The Most They Ever Had

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The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story; not of ... Read more

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The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story; not of
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True Stories

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In True Stories: Memories, Musings, Odds and Ends, C.J. Ott tells of the first seven years of his childhood in New York City and the next seven years in the Saugerties area, a hundred miles north of the city. He recounts his experiences as a postulant, novice and scholastic in the Marianist religious order; four years of military service in the U.S. Air Force, and a twenty-five year career as a ... Read more

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In True Stories: Memories, Musings, Odds and Ends, C.J. Ott tells of the first seven years of his childhood in New York City and the next seven years in the Saugerties area, a hundred miles north of the city. He recounts his experiences as a postulant, novice and scholastic in the Marianist religious order; four years of military service in the U.S. Air Force, and a twenty-five year career as a
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The Law of Respect

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The odds were stacked against her in just about every possible way, but thousands and thousands of people called her their leader. Why? Because they could not escape the power of the Law of Respect. ... Read more

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The odds were stacked against her in just about every possible way, but thousands and thousands of people called her their leader. Why? Because they could not escape the power of the Law of Respect.
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Colored People

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In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.A winner of the Chicago Tribune’s ... Read more

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In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.A winner of the Chicago Tribune’s
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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

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“One of her best collections to date.” —EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni’s poetry has influenced literary figures from James Baldwin to Blackalicious, and touched millions of ... Read more

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“One of her best collections to date.” —EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni’s poetry has influenced literary figures from James Baldwin to Blackalicious, and touched millions of
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tales to Inspire

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Enjoy the softer side of Uncle John! Filled with hundreds of pages of extraordinary, uplifting, and motivational stories, this is the ultimate ‘feel good’ book.Down in the dumps? Maybe you need a little inspiration, courtesy of Uncle John. Your friends at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have been working hard to assemble the most uplifting collection of humor interest stories to date. Read about ... Read more

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Enjoy the softer side of Uncle John! Filled with hundreds of pages of extraordinary, uplifting, and motivational stories, this is the ultimate ‘feel good’ book.Down in the dumps? Maybe you need a little inspiration, courtesy of Uncle John. Your friends at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have been working hard to assemble the most uplifting collection of humor interest stories to date. Read about
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The Man Behind The Brand - Road Food

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Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's look at the men behind the names where we pull off the road to eat. ... Read more

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Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's look at the men behind the names where we pull off the road to eat.
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Reclamation

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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s family, that they were direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson—lore she firmly believed, though others did not. For four decades the acclaimed journalist ... Read more

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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s family, that they were direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson—lore she firmly believed, though others did not. For four decades the acclaimed journalist
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