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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
Price: Audio Download ($21.99) | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
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MLK: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Tapes
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Price: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($12.76)
This historical compilation of Martin Luther King, Jr. features live recordings of "The Great March To Freedom," "The Great March To Washington" and the immortal "Free At Last" speech.
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
Price: Audio Download ($24.98) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Price: Audio Cassette ($17.06)
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama.
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Price: Audio Download ($13.75) | Audio CD ($13.46)
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the onsequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Price: Audio Download ($20.99) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude.
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
by Rafe Esquith
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors.
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Price: Audio CD ($31.96)
Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
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Religion, Myth, and Magic
by Susan A. Johnston
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
Anthropologist Susan Johnston turns a scholarly eye on one of humankind's primary interests throughout history: the spiritual belief system.
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Meeting Hate with Love
by Arun Gandhi
Price: Audio Download ($4.95)
Two segments that assess the legacy of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., utilizing archive recordings and interviews with colleagues and relatives.
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