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First published forty years ago, Gentlemen's Gentlemen gives an insight into the golden age of service - a profession now almost completely lost.

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This full-length biography explores the multifacetedand altogether fascinatinglife, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars.

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The story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands, beginning with the very first night of her married life, and ending the day she slipped away during an errand.

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One of the most remarkable stories of triumph over adversity that you will ever read.

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In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world.

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An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects on life and the common experiences that make us human. These ten essays tell stories from his life, from encounters with a Giant Caucasian Sheepdog and a martial arts master to a journey through a remote Italian village, and draws out the meaning of these experiences for himself and his readers.

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The final part of Helen Forrester's autobiography continues the story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool.

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The second volume of Helen Forrester's four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.

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In 2004, Brent Jeffs filed the first sexual abuse lawsuit against Warren Jeffs, his uncle, the president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the polygamous Mormon sect. Lost Boy shows how cults like FLDS control their members, how their absolute power corrupts their leaders, and how hard it is to escape.

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When mother and daughter meet, Sue thinks she has finally reached the end of her journey. Then Sue discovers she wasn't the only baby her mother gave away...

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A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage.

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Mighty be their Powers chronicles the unthinkable violence Leymah Gbowee has faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped to broker by empowering her country women and others around the world to take action and change History.

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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history.

Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans.

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David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one knew. But a call from the abuser's wife, 30 years on, proved he was living in a house of cards.

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In this fascinating book, Darwish speaks out against the dark side of her native culture--women abused by Islamic traditions, the poor and uneducated mistreated by the elites, and bribery and corruption as a way of life. She calls on the Arab world to embrace the values of democracy, respect for women, and tolerance for all religions.

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How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hope turned to fear and she knew she'd have to run again.

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The selections are geographically representational of the broad railroad network.

There is renewed interest in the Underground Railroad, exemplified by the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and energized scholarly inquiry.

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The harrowing true story of one boys experiences in a brutal approved school for young offenders in 50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife.

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Through a unique combination of narrative history and primary documents, this book provides an engrossing biography of Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee writing system, and clearly documents the importance of written language in the preservation of culture.

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She's Not the Man I Married is an extraodinarily written examination of relationships, not just those of cross-dressers with their partners, but also of those who question and bend gender roles, whether heterosexual or homosexual and those comprised couples who fall along the gender continuum.

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