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Aspen Falls Complete Series Books 1 - 9 by Ellen Anderson, Katie Wyatt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAspen Falls, tucked into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of 1870s northern Colorado Territory, is the home of the Hart family, founders of the growing town, Complete Series romance collection in one boxed set! Bestselling authors Ellen Anderson and Katie Wyatt Follow Rachael Hart must face an unforeseeable tragedy that nearly crushes her spirit... -
![Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends by Margot Edmonds, Ella Elizabeth Clark]()
Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends by Margot Edmonds, Ella Elizabeth Clark
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLearn about the rich history of North America through the legends and tales of those who inhabited the land first in Voices of the Winds. This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians... -
![The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday]()
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFirst published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies."The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story... -
![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society...Categorized as:
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![The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby, Lecrae Moore]()
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby, Lecrae Moore
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response. The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know...Categorized as:
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![Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff]()
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript... -
![Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature...Categorized as:
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![Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk]()
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNot too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s...Categorized as:
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![Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman, Vincent Harding]()
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman, Vincent Harding
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism. Hatred does not empower—it decays...Categorized as:
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![Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes]()
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWe find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home...Categorized as:
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![Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho]()
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations...Categorized as:
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![The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . .Categorized as:
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![My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem]()
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal and overcome the generational anguish of white supremacy, we will all continue to bear its scars... -
![Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt]()
Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Happiness DiaryThe first edition was confiscated by the Securitate in 1972, and restituted in 1975, after censorship intervention. Meanwhile, he had finished writing a second version of the book, which is in its turn confiscated in 1984...Categorized as:
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![Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams]()
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora—this well researched analysis details the development of...Categorized as:
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![Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente]()
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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![Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by Lettie B. Cowman]()
Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by Lettie B. Cowman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a barren wilderness, L. B. Cowman long ago discovered a fountain that sustained her, and she shared it with the world, Streams in the Desert ® -- her collection of prayerful meditations, Christian writings, and God's written promises--has become one of the most dearly loved, best-selling devotionals of all time since its first publication in 1925...Categorized as:
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![I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King]()
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech that changed the course of history.This fortieth-anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr... -
![Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes]()
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century... -
![Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo]()
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing. In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St... -
![Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch]()
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFirst of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure... -
![The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby]()
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American by Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWas America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles the debate about religion’s role in America’s founding.In today’s contentious political climate, understanding religion’s role in American government is more important than ever...Categorized as:
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![Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good]()
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge...Categorized as:
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![Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins, Shane Claiborne]()
Let Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins, Shane Claiborne
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHis brother died in his arms, shot by a deputy marshal; he was beaten and tortured by the sheriff and state police. Through it all he returned good for evil, progress for prejudice, and brought hope to black and white alike. The gripping true story of what happens when faith thrusts a person into the midst of a struggle against racism, oppression, and injustice...Categorized as:
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![Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman]()
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession...Categorized as:
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![In My Father's House by Corrie ten Boom]()
In My Father's House by Corrie ten Boom
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend... -
![The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan]()
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA master reporter’s landmark work of contemporary ecology.The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, and they provide food, work, and weekend fun for tens of millions of Americans. Yet they are under threat as never before... -
![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963...
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