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"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
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Laura tenía sueños grandes. Desde niña quiso ser enfermera. Se resistía al destino de las chicas de su generación: casarse, ocuparse del hogar y tener hijos. Como todo lo difícil le costó mucho trabajo y tuvo que poner todo su empeño en convertir su sueño en realidad.
Se adelantó a su tiempo desde muy pronto. Encontró un marido dispuesto a aceptar que hiciera compatible su decisión de trabajar y tener hijos, pero los celos terminaron...
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While dramatic history unfolds from Greensboro to Selma to Memphis, one man makes his own stand for justice and inclusion.Crossing the Tracks is set in the railroad yards and union halls of Kansas City during the Civil Rights Movement. It's the surprising story of a white, working class family man confronting racism and bigotry on the railroad, in the neighborhood, and in his church.EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the story of one man's, and by extension...
4) Teak Lord
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A tale of piety, greed, debauchery and equanimity in a remote Asian kingdom.
It's 1875 and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive dancers and Western adventurers.
A sharp rise in teak prices sets off a mad rush for logging concessions, and the forests of Lanna resound to the thwack of axes and the trumpeting of elephants as the mighty trees...
5) The Founding
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Two men, two dreams, two new towns on the plains, and a railroad that will determine whether the towns-one black, one white-live or die.
Will Crump has survived the Civil War, Red Cloud's War, and the loss of his love, but the search for peace still eludes him. From Colorado, famed Texas Ranger Charlie Goodnight lures Will to Texas, where he finds new love, but can love between a sharpshooter and a Quaker survive? Will has a chance to join in founding...
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"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Open Letters Monthly; Finalist, 2016 Novel of the Year - Underground Book Reviews; Semi-Finalist - 2017 M.M. Bennetts Award
All Jane Seymour wants is a husband; but when she catches the eye of a volatile king, she is pulled deep into the Tudor court's realm of plot and intrigue....
England. 1535. Jane Seymour is 27 years old and increasingly desperate to marry and secure her place in the world. When the court visits...
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Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her peculiar family. Her life is quite boring – until strange things begin happening to her.
At school, Arabella is learning about the Vikings and is most interested. So much so, that when on holiday with her family, her horrid brother Tom, takes her out on a rowing boat and they find themselves captured by Vikings.
They are taken back to the Viking village and are forced to go with them when...
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"'Words are powerful,' Grandma told Justice. 'They can be used in powerful ways to do good or to do harm. That's why it's important to always be careful with your words.'"
Justice has grown up witnessing the many ways her grandma serves the community. She wants to make a difference in the world, too, but how? Isn't she too young? Through conversations with her grandma and their shared love of books, Justice learns about important women and men...
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Her passion became her reality.
Children were her life, and God's messenger Mother Frances X. Cabrini dedicated her entire life to caring for poor Italian immigrants who sought refuge in the slums of New York City in the early 1890s.
A devout champion of education and proper health care for the poverty-stricken, Cabrini forged a path of survival for young children by building schools, orphanages, and hospitals-not only in the United States, but...
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