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The Warmth of Other Suns The Warmth of Other Suns Robin Miles,Isabel Wilkerson In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citize… OL15380640W
Freedom dreams Freedom dreams Robin D.G. Kelley Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C.L.R. James … OL2675568W
Obama Obama David Mendell The biography of America's hottest political superstar—Barack Obama—from a journalist who has been covering Obama and his career since his successful run for U.S. SenateBarack Obama's meteoric rise f… OL276639W
Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father FERNANDO MIRANDA MURO,EVARISTO PAEZ RASMUSSEN,EVARISTO PAEZ RASMUSSEN,Barack Obama,Canongate Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama's remarkable memoir. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many y… OL3246382W
The Audacity of Hope The Audacity of Hope Claudia Casanova,Barack Obama,Esther Roig Giménez,Erwin Dorado Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a… OL3246392W
April 4, 1968 April 4, 1968 Michael Eric Dyson On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for racial and economic … OL92695W