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Brothers in Arms
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Read by Richard Allen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 9, 2004
Price: $17.95
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Read by Richard Allen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 9, 2004
Price: $17.95
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
Written by Anne Moody
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $16.00
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known... Read more >
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Sleepaway School
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.95
Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is... Read more >
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.95
Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is... Read more >
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Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $23.00
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless... Read more >
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $23.00
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless... Read more >
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Soul Patrol
The Riveting True Story of the First African American LRRP Team in Vietnam
Written by Ed Emanuel
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2003
Price: $7.99
LRRPs had to be the best.
Anything less meant certain death.
When Ed Emanuel was handpicked for the first African American special operations LRRP team in Vietnam, he knew his six-man team couldn’t have asked for a tougher proving ground than Cu Chi in the summer of 196868. Home to the largest Viet... Read more >
The Riveting True Story of the First African American LRRP Team in Vietnam
Written by Ed Emanuel
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2003
Price: $7.99
LRRPs had to be the best.
Anything less meant certain death.
When Ed Emanuel was handpicked for the first African American special operations LRRP team in Vietnam, he knew his six-man team couldn’t have asked for a tougher proving ground than Cu Chi in the summer of 196868. Home to the largest Viet... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
