Empire of the Sun
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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s...
Kingdom
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First published on the 700th anniversary of the pivotal event in Scottish history, the epic story of...
Walking With The Wind
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In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter...
Impetuous Valor (Alsaunce)
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Jonas finishes his training and becomes the Guardian of the heir to the throne of Alsaunce. He is...
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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated The Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir in Books
Jan 15, 2018
This book caught my eye because I'd taken a Civil Rights course one summer while in college at CMU. The class facinated me. I learned what I thought was a great deal about the civil rights movement...from freedom marches, to sit ins we talked about it all. Or so I thought!
Michelle Norris's book told me otherwise. The day to day struggles of real families from this era of American history goes largly unnoticed. This book looked at one family & how things that were considered taboo, & therefore never talked about, effected generations of her family. It took an in-depth look at how "normal" people were the cornerstone of the movement & to this day go largly unhearlded for their efforts.
The memoir was well written & read more like a novel than a true account of someone's family. This was an unexpectedly great book!
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