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"At least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala--part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan--does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child. Author of a newspaper column called 'Lost and Abandoned,' she is a resource that police and others turn to when...
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Through his own riveting story, Datcher offers a view of young black men who long for loving, stable marriages, fatherhood, and homes in safe neighborhoods. He also writes of his desires and those of other black men to escape a cycle that deprives children of what they need most and creates empty shells of grown men.
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After years of hedonism in the literary life, journalist Brandon M. Stickney is caught in an opiate epidemic drug sting and sentenced to prison. Surrounded by society's most troubled individuals and hostile guards, Stickney faces his addiction and mental illness behind the razor wire. Searching for answers, he befriends four inmates and a guard who help change his life. Haunted by severe cravings, nights of mania, and threatened by prison's evils,...
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Letters without sender is the vehicle that allows readers to feel the experience of intruding into the intimate space of a woman who is reflecting on her experiences with everyday concepts. Looking at the most honest and sincere moment that one has of her: sitting on her bed with a notebook as a mirror of her mind and the pen as a reflection of her soul.
It is a compilation of letters with an intimate writing style, where the author writes to concepts...
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Includes a new afterword: A "richly detailed" biography of the iconic feminist based on interviews with friends, family, colleagues, and Steinem herself (The Washington Post).
Going beyond Gloria Steinem's public persona, this biography provides an in-depth portrait of the famed activist-covering her family of origin, Smith College education, travels in India, founding of Ms. magazine, and much more-drawn from fifty hours of interviews with Steinem,...
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Asmaa al-Ghoul is a Palestinian journalist who grew up in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Her book offers a rare view of a young woman coming into her own political and secular beliefs amidst the region's relentless violence and under Israeli occupation. She has been called "too strong minded," frequently criticized for not covering her hair and for being outspoken. As a journalist and activist, she has led demonstrations and been vocal in her opposition...
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"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile."--
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En 1989, les étudiants de Pékin occupent la place Tiananmen jusqu'au 4 juin, jour o la contestation s'est terminée dans un bain de sang...
Dans une vie, il est des épisodes qui laissent une empreinte plus forte que les autres. Après une rupture sentimentale, j'ai cherché à vivre quelque chose de différent. Je suis donc parti en Chine pour y apprendre le mandarin. C'était en 1989. Je suis resté 11 mois à Pékin et j'ai vécu de l'intérieur...
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What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights.
Starting as an office boy at Simon & Schuster in 1946, Bernstein moved to...
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Réjane Le Baut, née à Montrouge, professeur de lettres, a enseigné à Alger de 1962 à 1968 au lycée Frantz Fanon. Titulaire d'une thèse de doctorat à Paris-IV Sorbonne sur : Jean Amrouche, itinéraire et problématique d'un colonisé (1988), elle a publié de nombreux ouvrages autour de sa vie et de son oeuvre.
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Edna "Gertrude" Beasley's original memoir was published in Paris in 1925, but ultimately suppressed and lost to history - until now. In 1927, Beasley - a self-proclaimed socialist and staunch feminist who fought for women's rights - disappeared. Her fate remained a mystery until researchers began digging into her story. This book reveals the story of a woman who grew up in abject poverty in rural Texas during the early 1900s, where she battled ongoing...
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"I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is plenty hell-raising and freedom-fighting to go around. Crowther is a writer whose own career is marked by sharp political and social commentary in the pages of national and regional outlets, from Time...
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Autour de la liberté d'expression au Maroc.
Abdelfettah Fakihani est journaliste depuis 1990. Il a été emprisonné pour délit d'opinion une première fois de mars 1972 à août 1973, puis de 1975 à 1989. Au-delà de son témoignage sur son incarcération, il nous livre sa vision du militantisme avant, pendant et après sa détention. Il pose les questions de la fragile liberté d'expression et de l'option démocratique au Maroc.
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Yvan Tetelbom nous raconte son errance dans un monde trop violent, mais aussi sa reconstruction rendue possible grâce à la poésie.
Un enfant insouciant, émerveillé par la vie, est soudain figé dans son élan par la destruction de son innocence, dont la déflagration le projette dans un monde trop dur pour lui. Un chemin d'errance et de solitude au cours duquel il est confronté à la violence de la guerre d'Algérie, à la douleur de l'exil,...
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The pioneering TV news journalist shares her extraordinary story in this acclaimed memoir.
As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news over the course of five decades. Born in the Great Depression to a fifteen-year-old Louisiana laundress, and raised in the projects of Oakland, California, Davis persevered...
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Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved gender equality. In more than a few countries, progress for women has stalled or is reversing. Voters in the United States chose a misogynist over a female candidate for President. Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved gender equality. In more than a few countries, progress for women has stalled or is reversing. Voters in the United States chose a misogynist over a female candidate...
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Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian Mia Bay vividly captures...
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A two-part book in which French investigative journalist Maurice Rajsfus, who survived the 1942 "Black Thursday" roundup at Vel d'Hiv of 13,000 Jews, recollects events that day and uses meticulous research of police archives to make a damning inquiry of Vichy/police collaboration, examining the implementation of the Yellow Star, France's culpability in the Holocaust, and the influence of right-wing media.
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