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  Like Sodium in Water - A memoir...

  Hayden Eastwood

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  "Dad thinks lots of things are right-wing. He even thinks He-Man is right-wing. I ask Dad who we are and he says left-wing. Left is opposite to right. If right is bad, then we're the opposite of that, which means we're good."
  It's post-independence Zimbabwe and an atmosphere of nostalgia hangs over much of Harare's remaining white community. Hayden Eastwood grows up in a family that sets itself apart, distinguishing themselves from Rhodie-Rhodies through their politics: left is good; right is bad.
  Within the family's free and easy approach to life, Hayden and his younger brother, Dan, make a pact to never grow up, to play hide and seek and build forts forever, and to never, ever be interested in girls. But as Hayden and Dan develop as teenagers, and the chemicals of adolescence begin to stir, their childhood pact starts to unravel. And with the arrival of Sarah into their lives, the two brothers find themselves embroiled in an unspoken love triangle. While Sarah and Hayden spend increasing amounts of time together, Dan is left to deal with feelings of rejection and the burden of hidden passion alone, and the demise of a silly promise brings with it a wave of destruction. Laced with humour, anger and sadness, Like Sodium in Water is an account of a family in crisis and an exploration of how we only abandon the lies we tell ourselves when we have no other option.

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  Spring Awakening

  Frank Wedekind

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  London, 1944.  Seemingly far from the war in Europe, two schoolboys find they have much more pressing concerns than the fighting on the front-line. Melchior rekindles a passionate love affair with an old flame, but beneath his confident, roguish exterior lies a young boy who finds himself out of his depth.  What starts as a romantic chapter in their young lives soon takes a violent turn with disastrous consequences that threaten to tear them apart. For Mortiz however, girls are the last thing he wants to think about.  But he cant ignore his natural desires for much longer, especially with the new crowd Melchior introduces him to.  And with the expectations of a demanding father on top of the ever-increasing piles of homework, Moritz finds himself struggling to cope with the amounting pressure, and soon becomes to much to bare… Springs Awakening is a story of youth and innocence, and the awakening we all experience one day.  It explores the power of friendship and lust, and the role of society in dealing with these childhood traumas.

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  The Life of Frederick Douglass:...

  Frederick Douglass

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  Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
  Contents:
  Memoirs:
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  My Bondage and My Freedom
  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
  Writings & Speeches:
  The Heroic Slave
  My Escape from Slavery
  What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
  Self-Made Men
  The Church and Prejudice
  The Color Line
  The Future of the Colored Race
  Abolition Fanaticism in New York
  An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
  Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
  Reconstruction
  John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
  The Claims of Our Common Cause
  The End of All Compromises with Slavery – Now and Forever
  The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
  The Dred Scott Decision
  Farewell Speech to the British People
  Comments on Gerrit Smith's Address
  Change of Opinion Announced
  Colonization
  Henry Clay and Slavery
  The Free Negro's Place Is In America
  Horace Greeley and Colonization
  The Fugitive Slave Law,
  The Revolution of 1848
  West India Emancipation
  The Chicago Nomination
  The Late Election
  The Union and How to Save It
  Sudden Revolution in Northern Sentiment
  How to End the War
  Cast off the Millstone
  The Reasons for Our Troubles
  The War and How to End It
  What shall be Done with the Slaves if Emancipated
  The President and His Speeches
  Emancipation Proclaimed
  Men of Color, To Arms!
  Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?
  Our Work Is Not Done
  The Work of the Future
  What the Black Man Wants
  Give Us the Freedom Intended for Us
  A Call to Work
  The Word White
  The Hypocrisy of American Slavery
  Introduction to "The Reason Why"
  Reply of the Colored Delegation to the President
  Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
  Letter to Miss Wells

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  Memorandum

  Quah Sy Ren, Hee Wai Siam

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  Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese short stories, Memorandum maps out seven decades of Sinophone Singaporean Literature. From bargirls to student activists, from trishaw men to tea merchants, this collection provides a glimpse into a world that has been previously invisible to Anglophone readers. Paired with critical essays, these stories showcase the richness and diversity of Singapore’s Chinese community, but also its inherent interconnectedness with other cultures within Singapore. 
   
  “Memorandum is a pathbreaking anthology that refracts over half a century of Singapore’s history through its lens. The translated stories do much more than simply bridge Sinophone and Anglophone worlds: they actively cross geographical, cultural, linguistic and class boundaries, causing us to think more deeply about the nature of social power, and the transformative interventions literary texts can make.” 
  -Philip Holden, scholar of Singapore &Southeast Asian literatures

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  Blood Runs Coal - The Yablonski...

  Mark A. Bradley

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  In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months earlier, Yablonski had announced his campaign to oust the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), Tony Boyle. Yablonski wanted to return the union to the coal miners it was supposed to represent. Boyle was enraged about his opponent's bid to take over—and would go to any lengths to maintain power.The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders triggered one of the most intensive and successful manhunts in FBI history—and also led to the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern US history, one that inspired workers in other labor unions to rise up and challenge their own entrenched, out-of-touch leaders.Blood Runs Coal comes at a time of resurgent labor movements in the United States and the current administration's attempts to bolster the fossil fuel industry. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written, it sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day.

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  In Action with the SAS - A...

  Roy Close

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  A World War II memoir of a clerk who put down his pen and took up a weapon, rising through the ranks to become an elite Special Air Service soldier. 
   
  Roy Close’s wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, from there, to the SAS. In 1944 he operated behind enemy lines with the Maquis in France, who were in open insurrection against the German occupiers.  
   
  The scene then shifted to Holland and the advance through Germany. He witnessed Paris and Berlin in very early post-war years and was part of the Quadripartite Government of the former German capital.

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