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1) The giver
Author
Series
Language
English
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
2) Crossroads
Author
Series
Key to all mythologies volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches,
world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis
illuminates the connections between struggles against
state violence and oppression throughout history and
around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black
feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for
today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of
previous liberation...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
321 p. : col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nevada Barr's series featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon takes this heroine to the scene of heinous crimes at the feet of a national shrine - the Statue of Liberty."--BOOK JACKET. "When Anna's beloved sister Molly becomes gravely ill, Anna rushes to her bedside at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. What began as pneumonia has turned horrifyingly more complicated, and Anna, helpless, can do nothing except sit and watch."--BOOK JACKET. "To clear...
6) Liberty
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
41 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses all the planning and efforts that went into the construction of one of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (37 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
10) Everyday people
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke has been called the "Father of Liberalism". Following in the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is one of the first British empiricists, which emphasizes the role of empirical evidence in the formation of ideas. His work would greatly influence other prominent political and literary figures including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the founding fathers of the United States of America. Contained here...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues her from a slave auction in New Orleans. She travels with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A highly influential figure in the Age of Enlightenment in England and France, whose works helped inspire the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, John Locke was one of the most important political theorists in Western history. In The Second Treatise of Government, a major contribution to the principles underlying modern democracies, he achieved two objectives: refuting the concept of the divine right of monarchy, and establishing...
Author
Publisher
Amistad/Collins
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems brings to life the treacherous journey of the travelers on the Underground Railroad, in a universal story about the human need to be free.
Author
Series
World's classics volume 170
Publisher
Oxford University Press, H. Milford
Pub. Date
[1933]
Physical Desc
xx, 548 p. 16 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xx, 154 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of freedom by some of the world's most celebrated poets, published for the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps. The year 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the conclusion of the Second World War. But around the world, oppressed and imprisoned people are still longing for freedom and asking, "What does it mean to be free?" This collection of poems explores...
18) Freedom
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set at Auschwitz in 1941, Sofia is the daughter of a doctor and a Jewish mother. When her father starts working for the SS, Sofia risks her life to save the imprisoned including a boy named Isaac.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A prize-winning historian chronicles the long-running clash between white people and federal authority by focusing on Barbour County, Alabama and its history of fighting Reconstruction, integration, and the New Deal.
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