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Forbidden fruit: love stories from the Underground Railroad (Griot audio)
Par Betty DeRamus. 2005
Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred,…
slave spouses deeply felt a sorrowful anguish and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite. DeRamus recounts these tales of soul mates who braved bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to preserve their vows of love. 2005. Love in a time of hate -- A love worth waiting for -- Special delivery package -- Man who couldn't grow a beard -- Even a blind horse knows the way -- Slave who knew his name -- Footprints in the snow -- Chased by wolves -- Woman on John Little's back -- Angeline's blues -- Suspicious lynchings -- Passing white -- Passing for black -- Mixed marriages in deadly times: a chronology -- Hound dogs hate red pepper -- Schoolteacher had to duck dead cats -- Guns and pickles.George Washington, spymaster: how the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War
Par Thomas B Allen. 2005
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of…
spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war. Junior High. 2005.God sleeps in Rwanda: a journey of transformation
Par Joseph Sebarenzi, Laura Mullane. 2009
Joseph Sebarenzi’s parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of…
ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu. His father sent him away to school in Congo as a teenager, telling him, “If we are killed, you will survive.” When he returned after the genocide, he was elected speaker of parliament, only to be forced into a daring escape again when he learned he was the target of an assassination plot. This book shows us how the lessons of Rwanda can prevent future tragedies from happening all over the world. 2011, c2009.Hard passage: a Mennonite family's long journey from Russia to Canada
Par Arthur Kroeger. 2007
In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada, including Heinrich and Helena Kroeger…
and their five children. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.From the land of shadows: the making of Grey Owl
Par Donald B Smith. 1990
Grey Owl convinced the world that he was a semi-literate Apache who wrote about animal conservation and native lore. Upon…
his death he was unmasked as Archibald Belaney, a well-educated Englishman. 1990.Gang of one: memoirs of a Red Guard (American lives)
Par Fan Shen. 2004
In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution. Disillusion, fear, and disgust…
soon followed, as he saw through the party doctrines to the violence, terror, and upheaval around him. With courage, cunning, wit, and sheer luck, Shen managed to scheme his way through a hugely oppressive system and emerge triumphant. 2004.Golden afternoon: being the second part of Share of summer, her autobiography
Par M. M Kaye. 1997
Mollie, on the verge of womanhood, feels gauche and plain alongside her vivacious, intrepid mother and the glittering socialites of…
the Raj. But there are friendships and fun to compensate for the social embarrassment. Above all Mollie's real love-affair is with India. Here she brings alive the glories of the Raj and the complex ceremonies of high-caste Indian life, the thrill and danger of a mugger hunt, and a heart-stopping car journey over precipitous roads, and the magic of Kashmir. 1997.Henry VIII
Par Jasper Godwin Ridley. 1985
Portrays the dark side of this 16th century British monarch. He assumed the role of Catholic or Protestant as it…
suited his purpose and callously sent people to their deaths. 1985.Gweilo: memories of a Hong Kong childhood
Par Martin Booth. 2005
An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was…
posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control, and endowed with bright blond hair that signified good luck to the Chinese, he had free access to hidden corners of the colony normally closed to a Gweilo, a "pale fellow" like him. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learnt Cantonese and sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs. He entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into a secret lair of the triads and visited an opium den. Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother who was keen to embrace all things Chinese, and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in "going native", Martin Booth's compelling memoir glows with infectious curiosity and humour. 2005.Hitler--memoirs of a confidant: Memoirs Of A Confidant
Par Ruth Hein, Henry Ashby Turner, Otto Wagener. 1985
An associate of the Nazi leader from 1929 to 1933 presents a close-up view of the Fuhrer. Discloses details about…
Hitler's ideas and his eccentric personality. 1985. Uniform title: Hitler aus nächster Nähe.Flowers of the fairest (Reminiscence Ser.)
Par Rosemary Conry. 2003
A moving account of the relationships between three girls who lie strapped to their beds on the veranda of a…
TB hospital in the 1940s. They are just seven years old, and ahead of them lie three years of sharing their thoughts, pitting their wits against each other, sometimes falling out and all the time dreaming of home. 2003.Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
Par Cecil Woodham Smith. 1951
Caesar Rodney's ride: the story of an American patriot
Par Jan Cheripko. 2012
Relates how one delegate to the Second Continental Congress battled bad weather and physical disabilities to arrive in Philadelphia in…
1776, in time for the historic vote that led to independence. Grades 3-6. 2012.American slave, American hero: York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Par Laurence P Pringle. 2012
Eleanor Roosevelt: a life of discovery
Par Russell Freedman. 1997
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Biography (Feminist Press biography, no. 2)
Par Mary Ann B Oakley. 1972
Fifty Russian winters: an American woman's life in the Soviet Union
Par Margaret Wettlin. 1992
In the early 1930s, Margaret Wettlin travelled to Russia where she met and married a theatre director. She describes her…
experiences during the following 50 years which included World War II, the purges of the Stalin regime and the stalemate of the Cold War. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1992.Eminent Canadians: candid tales of then and now
Par John Fraser. 2000
Fraser examines the lives of Reverend John Strachan, Reverend Terence Finlay, George Brown, William Thorsell, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Jean Chretien,…
Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, all eminent Canadians in his opinion, to see how the modern day people compare to their historical counterparts. 2000.Eleanor of Aquitaine: by the Wrath of God, Queen of England
Par Alison Weir. 2000
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most…
controversial. Married in turn Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and was the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John. She lived to be 82, and became the virtual ruler of England. 2000.Eva's story: a survivor's tale
Par Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent. 1988
In March 1938 the Germans marched into Austria and young Eva Geiringer became part of the exodus that saw Jewish…
families taking refuge abroad. In their case it was Holland where they met and befriended Anne and Margot Frank. In 1944 she and her mother were transported to Auschwitz and by a miracle survived. After the war the Russians, who saved them, sent them back to Holland where Eva's mother married Otto Frank, Anne's father. Now, 40 years on, she is able to tell their story. 1988.