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The spies of Mississippi

the true story of the spy agency that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
2010

Across many mountains

a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom
2012
Author Yangzom Brauen shares details about her life and the lives of her mother and grandmother, who lived in Tibet during Chinese rule and were forced to find ways to preserve their identity and culture while in exile.

Inside out & back again

2011
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Spies of Mississippi

the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
2010
Chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission attempted to halt racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive propaganda effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers as communists.

Barack Obama

president
2008

The treasure of Way Down Deep

2013
In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.

Remember as you pass me by

2007
In small-town Texas in the mid-1950s, twelve-year-old Silvy tries to make sense of her parent's financial problems, a Supreme Court ruling that will integrate her school, the prejudice of her family and friends, and her own behavior, which always seems to be wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning

1977, baseball, politics, and the battle for the soul of a city
2005

Jews for Buchanan

did you hear the one about the theft of the American presidency?
2001
Draws from newspaper articles, political cartoons, election-related documents, and Web sites to provide an indictment of the 2000 presidential election, and support for the author's contention that Al Gore, and not George W. Bush, really won the contest.

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