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Freedom's song : a novel / by Sawyer, Kim Vogel,author.;
"A famous riverboat singer poses as a slave owner in order to lead runaway slaves to freedom and save her own life in this powerful novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow"--
Subjects: Religious fiction.; Historical fiction.; Liberty; Singers; Slaves; Widowers;
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Working for freedom : the story of Josiah Henson / by Arato, Rona.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [79], Internet addresses and index.A biography of Josiah Henson, the escaped slave who found freedom in Canada and helped to lead 118 slaves to safety as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.LSC
Subjects: Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Fugitive slaves; Blacks; Clergy; Underground Railroad;
© c2008., Napoleon & Company,
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Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. by Mandela, Nelson,1918-;
Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-; Presidents;
© c1994., Little, Brown and Co.,
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North star to freedom : the story of the Underground Railroad / by Gorrell, Gena K.,1946-;
Includes bibliography (p. 159-160) and index.Details the history of the Underground Railroad from the roots of slavery through the post-Emancipation era by focusing on the lives of the participants.
Subjects: Underground railroad.; Fugitive slaves; Fugitive slaves; Abolitionists; Abolitionists;
© c1996., Stoddart,
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Discipline equals freedom : field manual / by Willink, Jocko,author.;
An ex-Navy SEAL presents a guide on how to achieve freedom through discipline, outlining the mental and physical practices that shaped his career and continue to help him reach fulfilling goals while outmaneuvering common pitfalls.
Subjects: Discipline.; Mental discipline.; Self-control.;
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Six degrees of freedom / by Dickner, Nicolas,1972-author.; Lederhendler, Lazer,1950-translator.; translation of:Dickner, Nicolas,1972-Six degrés de liberté.English.;
"A novel featuring obsession and adventure, science experiments and parakeets, coding and container ships, Six Degrees of Freedom was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French-language version. Nicolas Dickner is a previous winner of Canada Reads for the novel Nikolski. Three characters, three separate paths to freedom. Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifiying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious ship container Papa Zulu she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide."--Winner of the 2015 French-language Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Subjects: Stowaways; Hackers; Voyages around the world; Ocean travel;
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Dear Sir, I intend to burn your book : an anatomy of a book burning / by Hill, Lawrence,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references.In this essay, Lawrence Hill shares his response to the people in the Netherlands who intend to burn his international bestselling book "The book of Negroes".LSC
Subjects: Censorship.; Books and reading; Intellectual freedom.; Freedom of expression.;
© c2013., University of Alberta Press : Canadian Literature Centre,
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The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them / by Freedom Writers.; Gruwell, Erin,author.; Filipović, Zlata,writer of foreword.;
Subjects: Diaries.; Teenagers; Toleration;
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Passover : festival of freedom / by Polak, Monique.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.During Passover, Jews are reminded of how, more than three thousand years ago, their ancestors emerged from slavery to become free men and women.
Subjects: Passover;
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The incredible freedom machines / by Saunders, Kirli.; Ottley, Matt.;
She was small when she heard about them... the incredible freedom machines. In this sumptuous story of exploration and breaking boundaries, a young girl uncovers her very own freedom machine vehicle that carries her to all kinds of wondrous places.LSC
Subjects: Liberty; Girls; Mechanics;
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