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1) Uncle Tom's cabin

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Series

Oxford world's classics
Classic collection)
Brilliance Audio on compact disc

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Audiobook Playaway, eAudiobook

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Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Pat Righelato. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of...

2) The price of stones: building a school for my village

Author

Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson

Formats

Book, Audiobook Playaway

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A founder of the Nyaka and Kutamba AIDS Orphans Schools describes how he returned to his native Uganda after college and was compelled by the dire circumstances of his village's AIDS orphans to make tuition-free education available.

3) Picking Cotton: our memoir of injustice and redemption

Author

Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer

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Book, Audiobook CD

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The story behind the unlikely friendship which developed between the accused rapist Ronald Cotton--who served eleven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit--and his accuser, Jennifer Thompson, raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept.

4) Oil on Water

Author

Habila, Helon

Publisher

Dreamscape Media, LLC

Pub. Date

p2011

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In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, a British oil executive's wife has been kidnapped. Two journalists are sent to find her. In a story taut with suspense, explores the conflict between idealism and cynical disillusionment in a journey full of dangers. Assailed by irresolvable versions of the 'truth' about the woman's disappearance, dependant on the kindness of strangers of unknowable loyalties, their journalistic objectivity...

5) 12 years a slave

Author

Northup, Solomon

Formats

Large Print, Audiobook Playaway, eAudiobook

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"A memoir of a black man who was born a citizen of New York, kidnapped and sold as a slave in 1841, and rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853"--

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Richard Allen

1) Uncle Tom's cabin

2) The price of stones: building a school for my village

3) Picking Cotton: our memoir of injustice and redemption

4) Oil on Water

5) 12 years a slave