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The Race Beat
by Gene Roberts
Formats: Audio CD ($39.16) | Audio Cassette ($105.80) | MP3 CD ($23.96)
Published:
December 2007
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation in the South and the brutality used to enforce it.
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The Everything Martin Luther King, Jr. Book
by Jessica McElrath
Formats: Audio CD ($27.99)
Published:
November 2007
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most inspirational figures in American history. From his march on Washington to his time in a Birmingham jail, King's life and work continue to have a profound effect on our nation.
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Inside the Red Mansion
by Oliver August
Formats: Audio CD ($31.49) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
November 2007
Due to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges.
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A Slave No More
by David Blight
Formats: Audio CD ($23.96) | Digital Download
Published:
November 2007
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves.
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The Slave Ship
by Marcus Rediker
Formats: Audio CD ($35.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
October 2007
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible.
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Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American
by Vinay Rai
Formats: Audio CD ($26.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
September 2007
With 1.1 billion residents, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. One of India’s wealthiest men gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation, revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind India’s meteoric rise.
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
Formats: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Published:
September 2007
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority.
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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith
Formats: Audio CD ($26.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
August 2007
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials, and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo.
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Once Upon a Quinceanera
by Julia Alvarez
Formats: Audio CD ($31.96)
Published:
August 2007
The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era.
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