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I live in Texas and am opening an afterschool program designed to help our children see the provocative nature of Youtube videos. We see the violent news reports, the disregard for authority, and the seeming lack of concern for the future. We must alter the "expected end" and the society's perception of our children as dangers to society and a ball of sex crazed, drug influenced consumers. We must create change, positive change. We must demons...

I live in Texas and am opening an afterschool program designed to help our children see the provocative nature of Youtube videos. We see the violent news reports, the disregard for authority, and the seeming lack of concern for the future. We must alter the "expected end" and the society's perception of our children as dangers to society and a ball of sex crazed, drug influenced consumers. We must create change, positive change. We must demons...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple: a "moving, tender" novel of a Deep South tenant farmer's quest for a new life (Publishers Weekly).Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his family and everything he's ever known to find happiness and respect in the cold cities of the North. This misadventure, his "second life, " proves a dismal failure that sends ...

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Excerpt from Through Turkey Pass to Amherst and BeyondBack to thy peaceful villages and fields My memory, like a weary pilgrim, comes With scrip and burdon to repose awhile.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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It is superb' Rita Mae BrownSet in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery - singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of he...

A "stunningly insightful" essay collection from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple (Publishers Weekly).   From the prolific writer, poet, and activist Alice Walker, comes a compilation of writing and speeches on advocacy, struggle, and hope. A New York Times-bestselling "collection of righteous speeches and essays . . . is Walker the cultural pioneer back on top form" (The Guardian).   Drawing equally...

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Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.Un clásico del feminismo y la lucha contra el racismo del siglo XX.Esta es la historia de dos hermanas: Nettie, que ejerce como misionera en África, y Celie, que vive en el Sur de Estados Unidos, casada con un hombre al que odia y abrumada por la vergüenza de haber sido violada por quien cree que es su padre. A lo largo de treinta añ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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