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  Martin Luther King Jr -...

  Jason Thompson

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  Martin Luther King Jr. is easily one of the most famous and influential figures in history. But just how much do you know about this man’s life and achievements? 
  Inside this powerful account of Dr. King’s life, you’ll learn about his early childhood and upbringing, his education and journey to become a doctor and minister, and his first brushes with activism. From starting a family and winning the Nobel Prize to the famous story of Rosa Parks and influential civil rights activists, you’ll find out about Martin Luther King Jr.’s protests, boycotts, and his incredible fight against prejudice and discrimination. 
  Including the famous speeches that changed the world and Dr. King’s unending message of peace, Martin Luther King Jr: Biography of the Man who Changed the World details the countless protests and key moments throughout the civil rights campaign, from Freedom Day and the fight to vote, to the marches leading up to the Civil Rights Act. This book is a powerful reminder of Black Americans’ struggle to secure their fundamental rights, and how their lives and achievements still impact us all today.

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  To America with Love - Letters...

  Abbie Hoffman, Anita Hoffman

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  The correspondence between American social and political activist Abbie Hoffman and his wife during the first of his eight years as a fugitive in the ’70s. In March, 1974, facing drug charges in a case in which he claims he was innocent, Abbie Hoffman, one of the Chicago Seven, became a fugitive, forced to leave behind Anita, his wife of eight years, and America, their four-year-old son. During this time, they could only communicate through letters. Letters from the Underground includes all the letters sent between Abbie and Anita during the first year of their separation.“Putting the Sixties in a human perspective.” —Tom Hayden

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  Jimmy Carter 1996

  PBS NewsHour

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  Former President Jimmy Carter talks about his book Living Faith with Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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  Embrace the Suck - What I...

  Stephen Madden

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  Lifelong amateur athlete Stephen Madden decided to put himself to the test, physically and mentally, by immersing himself in the culture, diet, and psyche of CrossFit—the fast-growing but controversial fitness regime that's a stripped-down combination of high intensity aerobic activity, weightlifting, calisthenics, and gymnastics practiced by more than two million athletes worldwide. But what's crazier? The fact that such a grueling regimen—in which puking and muscle breakdowns during workouts are common—is so popular, or that people pay good money to do it? 
  In Embrace the Suck, Madden chronicles the year he devoted to mastering all of the basic Crossfit exercises like double unders, muscle ups and kipping pullups, and immersing himself in the Paleo diet that strips weight from its followers but leaves them fantasizing about loaves of bread. Throughout, he explores the culture of the sport, visiting gyms (boxes) around the country, becoming a CrossFit coach, and confronting some basic questions about himself, his past, and athletic limitations—and why something so difficult and punishing can be at once beautiful, funny, and rewarding.

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  Crash Course - The Life Lessons...

  Kim Bearden

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  The inspiring true story of how a group of inner-city school kids taught their teacher how to overcome personal adversity and achieve success and happiness.Crash Course chronicles the life lessons that Kim Bearden has learned during an award-winning career in education. From her challenges as a first-year teacher to her triumphs as the co-founder of the highly acclaimed Ron Clark Academy, Kim shares how children can teach each of us the importance of building relationships, abandoning fear, discovering resilience, embracing one's unique gifts, and living with passion.Full of honesty, humor, heartbreak, and humanity, Kim's experiences show how children can help any one of us find joy and meaning in both our personal and professional lives. Crash Course is "humorous and sensitive" (Kirkus Reviews), an important resource for every home library.

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  Boys of Winter - Life and Death...

  Charles J. Sanders

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  “An immensely valuable and substantial addition to 10th Mountain literature and to the history of skiing in the United States.” —International Ski History Association  The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders’s fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys’ lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis.  “The Boys of Winter perfectly captures the spirit of the men who made the division what it was, as well as the spirit of those troopers who survived to help shape the postwar world.” —John Imbrie, 10th Mountain Division historian and coeditor of Good Times and Bad Times  “Focusing on the lives, and the deaths, of three young men from vastly different backgrounds, Sanders traces the history of the U.S. Army’s Tenth Mountain Division from its inception, training in Washington and Colorado, first blooding in the Aleutians, and finally, to deployment to Italy in 1945 . . . The Boys of Winter is a sensitive tribute.” —Western Historical Quarterly  “Sanders distills the complicated and years-long saga of the creation of America’s ski troops into an intensely personal story . . . [And] doesn’t shy away from a question that haunts the survivors of the division, and the families of those who never returned.” —The Durango Herald

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