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English
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Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their minds in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories show us the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington; Harlem's Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson. Bessie breaks barriers to become...
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Margaret Stuart is happy to have her sister Elspeth come to live with her and her husband Alec on their prosperous Iowa farm, but when the friendship between Elspeth and Alec ripens into passion, it changes the course of the rest of all their lives.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work with him to make that dream real. The dream: a school to transform the lives of thousands of children-- as Ramzi's life was transformed-- through music"--Amazon.com.
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