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Très jeune, Marie-Line perd l'amour de sa vie de manière tragique. Elle se retrouve seule avec leur fils âgé de seulement 18 mois. Elle raconte son deuil, son parcours vers la reconstruction, et relate comment le cancer s'est insinué au milieu du chaos qu'est devenue sa vie. Cette existence bascule brusquement dans un tourbillon de larmes, de colère et d'injustice. Néanmoins, avec une touche d'humour, elle transmet aussi un message d'espoir,...
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The inspiring, true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who ingeniously rescued hundreds of children before Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The shadow of war was spreading across Europe. Hitler's armies had marched into the borderlands of Czechoslovakia, forcing Jewish families, among others, to flee their homes and seek refuge in any location that would accept them.
When Nicholas Winton, the son of Jewish-German immigrants, traveled from London...
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"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" – ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020
"[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir…This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border." – Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"[The] haunting and eloquent…narrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for a better life." -Kirkus, STARRED Review
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Learn About Amazing Black Heroes That Shaped History (Ages 8–12)
A fun book for children with moving stories about Black trailblazers who persevered through adversity to inspire generations to come.
Inspirational stories of Black heroes. Discover how Black heroes have overcome adversity, from the story of writer and activist Maya Angelou, to the less known tale of Nance Legins-Costley, a slave whose freedom was won in a supreme court case by a...
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Beryl Potter was a reserved working-class mother of three living a decent life, or so it seemed, when a harmless slip and fall marked the unravelling of everything that she had known about herself and the world around her. Over the course of six years, she endured unimaginable pain. As doctors raced to save her life, her limbs and eyesight were taken from her one by one. In the span of a few years, she lost nearly half her body, her financial security,...
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Through her childhood spent in 1940s New York being raised by two mothers, her work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia, Faith S. Holsaert has been defined by the intertwined forces of race, activism, and family. As a young woman on the front line of the Civil Rights Movement, she learned the power of contested narratives and came to understand...
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Juillet 1948 : Joseph Damiani est condamné à mort pour une série de crimes commis à l'âge de 21 ans, en 1945. Gracié, il purge sa peine en centrale o il tient un journal, évolue. Libéré en décembre 1956, après onze années de détention, il est devenu « un autre ». Bientt, toute la France le connaîtra sous le nom de José Giovanni. Comment un petit truand a-t-il pu renaître sous l'apparence d'un écrivain reconnu ("Le Trou",...
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A biography of the Jewish American, left-wing author of Spartacus that explores his identity, his work, and his politics.
Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to one hundred books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in 1943 and remained a loyal...