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1241) Guantanamo diary
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantnamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go....
1242) The Mauritanian
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015--heavily redacted by the U.S. government--Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ruling ordering his release, and it was unclear when or if he would ever see freedom. In October 2016 he was finally released and reunited with his family. During his fourteen-year imprisonment the United States never charged...
1243) To the polls
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[2022]
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"While volunteering on Election Day, Mr. Rustin shows his students the power of the vote. Using his ability to step back in time, he takes the class down the path to fair voting rights for everyone." --back cover
1244) Rosa Parks
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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In December 2014 a cab driver tells his passenger, an impatient young man, about Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and his memories growing up at that time.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
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[2023]
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"Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There, she endured brutal living conditions, torture, interrogations, anti-Muslim propaganda, and sterilization. But that was just the beginning of Zumrat’s troubles, who with her husband would soon hatch a plan to escape to America." --back cover
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