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  • Protest History of the United States - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

    Protest History of the United States - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    2025/04/22
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    Title: Protest History of the United States
    Author: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-22-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, History & Culture

    Summary:
    Exploring 400 years of protest and resistance in US history—and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world In this timely new book in Beacon’s successful ReVisioning History series, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States. Beginning with Indigenous peoples’ resistance to European colonization and continuing through to today’s climate change demonstrations, Browne-Marshall expands how to think about protest through sharing select historical moments and revealing the role of key players involved in those efforts. Drawing upon legal documents, archival material, government documents and secondary sources, A Protest History of the United States gives voice to those who pushed back against the mistreatment of others, themselves, and in some instances planet Earth. Browne-Marshall highlights stories of individuals from all walks of life, backgrounds, and time periods who helped bring strong attention to their causes. Those stories include those of Wahunsenacock, more commonly known to history as Chief Powhatan, who took on English invaders in pre-colonial America in 1607; legendary boxer Muhammad Ali who refused to be inducted into the US military during the Vietnam era and appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court; and David Buckel, LGBTQ+ rights lawyer and environmental activist who protested against fossil fuels by committing self-immolation in 2018. Regardless of whether these protests accomplished their end goals, Browne-Marshall reminds us that not only is dissent meaningful and impactful but is an essential tool for eliciting long lasting change.
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  • Ambush - Colleen Coble

    Ambush - Colleen Coble
    2025/03/04
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    Title: Ambush
    Author: Colleen Coble
    Narrator: Karen Peakes
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:27:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-04-2025
    Publisher: Thomas Nelson
    Genres: Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Religious & Inspirational, Detective Stories

    Summary:
    She'll do anything to uncover the truth of her parents' murder--even work alongside the man who once broke her heart. Paradise Alden's childhood in Nova Cambridge, Alabama, was idyllic until the night her parents were murdered. Since then life has left her scarred. The abuse she suffered in the foster care system, her first love's betrayal, and the jaguar attack that nearly destroyed her career have led to an unshakable distrust--in men, in God, and maybe in even in herself. After fifteen years, returning to her hometown is a last resort to finding her life again. She's hoping the wildlife refuge where she's accepted a veterinarian job will be the perfect place to heal from her recent traumas and unlock her memories about the night her parents died. But on the day she arrives at The Sanctuary, a body is discovered on the grounds. And soon, a series of deadly events threatens not only her future but the man who, despite all odds, still makes her pulse stutter. Arson, a shooting, a break-in, and multiple instances of animals being freed from their enclosures all point back to him, but Paradise knows Blake Lawson isn't responsible. Not the man who has been helping his mother manage The Sanctuary these past six months and care for his stepbrothers in the wake of their father's death . . . even if his betrayal years ago cost her everything. Someone dangerous is lurking beneath the town's moss-draped trees, and Paradise refuses to let another murderer disappear into the shadows.
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    9 時間 27 分
  • Fire-Dwellers - Margaret Laurence

    Fire-Dwellers - Margaret Laurence
    2025/02/25
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    Title: Fire-Dwellers
    Author: Margaret Laurence
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-25-2025
    Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics, Contemporary Women, Family Life

    Summary:
    Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.
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