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2024
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The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times–bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia.Alice Walker said it best: "The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book." Igniting controversy upon its publication in 1944, Strange Fruit was banned in Boston and Detroit and the US Postal Service refused to send it through the mail until Eleanor Roosevelt intervened—all because of ...
2016
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As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws long before the civil rights era.Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction an...
2024
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Are you looking for a way to cook your favorite foods without all the excess oil and grease?Do you want to make crispy, crunchy snacks and meals without the guilt?The Instant Pot Duo Crisp Air Fryer Cookbook is a must-have for anyone who owns this amazing kitchen appliance. This cookbook will help you make the most of your Instant Pot Duo Crisp Air Fryer.✅Chapter 1 : Introduction✅Chapter 2 : Measurement Conversions✅Chapter 3...
2016
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This book is your ultimate Sylvester Stallone resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Sylvester Stallone's whole picture right away. Get countless Sylvester Stallone facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Sylvester Stallone Handbook is the single and largest Sylvester Stallone reference book. T...
- Narrated by
- Elisabeth Ashby
Unabridged
8 hours 23 min
2023
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A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation—the intricate system of taboos—that undergirded Southern society.Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unac...
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