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The second emancipation : Nkrumah, pan-Africanism, and global Blackness at high tide / by French, Howard W.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.From the acclaimed author of Born in Blackness comes an extraordinary account of Africa's liberation from colonial oppression, a work that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of modern history. A work of epic dimension that recasts the liberation of twentieth-century Africa through the lens of revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah.

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972.; Pan-Africanism;

The wife's tale : a personal history / by Aida Edemariam,author.;

"One remarkable woman--caught in the tumult of an extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. Told by her granddaughter, Canadian journalist Aida Edemariam, Yetemegnu's story is of courage, struggle and survival. The wife's tale has the sweep and lyrical power that captivated readers of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, and of Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family. Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar in about 1916, and a child bride at eight years old, Aida Edemariam's grandmother once stood, shaking, as fascists searched her home for guns she knew were there; in the late 1930s and early 1940s she fled both Italian and Allied bombardment. When her husband was imprisoned, in the 1950s, Yetemegnu--a woman who had hardly left her own compound for three decades--managed to gain audiences with Emperor Haile Selassie I in Addis Ababa, to argue for justice, for revenge, and for the futures of her seven children. Widowed, she fought for thirteen years through courts unaccustomed to a woman determined to defend her assets. A feudal landlord herself, she felt the first tremors of the coming revolution, then, in the early 1970s, watched it burst into flower: night after night she listened, praying desperately, to the firing squads of the Red Terror doing their work next door, and endured yet more soldiers tramping through her home. In her sixties she learned to read, and eventually made a longed-for pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Told from Yetemegnu's own point of view, The wife's tale features a rich cast of characters--emperors and empresses, archbishops and slaves, priests and scholars, monks and nuns, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents. But above all, there is Yetemegnu herself, grand and haughty and sometimes difficult but also vulnerable and incredibly generous and who, despite everything--the toil, the deaths, the cruelties and the many, many tears--retains an infectious sense of mischief and joy."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Yetemegnu Mekonnen.; Women;

Canada's prime ministers and the shaping of a national identity / by Blake, Raymond Benjamin,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories. Focusing on the post-Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime minsters worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation."--

Subjects: Nationalism; Nationalism; Prime ministers; Prime ministers;

Otherwise / by Mowat, Farley,1921-;

Subjects: Mowat, Farley, 1921-; Authors, Canadian (English);

© 2008., M&S,

On Leopard Rock : a life of adventures / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.;

Subjects: Biographies.; Smith, Wilbur A.; Authors, South African;

Farley : the life of Farley Mowat / by King, James,1942-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-384) and index.

Subjects: Mowat, Farley, 1921-; Authors, Canadian (English);

© c2002., HarperFlamingo Canada,

The mousetrap and other plays / by Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.;

And then there was none -- Appointment with death -- The hollow -- The mousetrap -- Witness for the prosecution --Towards zero -- Verdict -- Go back for murder.LSC

Subjects: Detective and mystery plays, English.; English drama;

© 2012, c1993., HarperCollins,

The Berlin Apartment A Novel [electronic resource] : by Turnbull, Bryn.aut; cloudLibrary;

“Wholly immersive and impeccably researched, Bryn Turnbull’s tale brings the time vividly to life.”  —Toronto Star on The Paris Deception For fans of Kate Quinn and Kristin Hannah, this sweeping love story follows a young couple whose lives are irrevocably changed when they’re separated overnight by the construction of the Berlin Wall. Berlin 1961: When Uli Neumann proposes to Lise Bauer, she has every reason to accept. He offers her love, respect, and a life beyond the strict bounds of the East German society in which she was raised — which she longs to leave more than anything. But only two short days after their engagement, Lise and Uli are torn violently apart when barbed wire is rolled across Berlin, splitting the city into two hostile halves: capitalist West Berlin, an island of western influence isolated far beyond the iron curtain; and the socialist East, a country determined to control its citizens by any means necessary.  Soon, Uli and his friends in West Berlin hatch a plan to get Lise and her unborn child out of East Germany, but as distance and suspicion bleed into their lives and as weeks turn to months, how long can true love survive in the divided city?  General adult.

Subjects: Electronic books.; 20th Century; Family Life; Contemporary Women;

© 2024., MIRA Books,

The Silver Hills Boarding House [electronic resource] : by Miller, Linda Lael.aut; CloudLibrary;

Fans of the hit TV show Yellowstone and its two prequel series will fall in love with this epic love story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller. Lizbet Fontaine will do anything to keep her family together, even leave behind the only life she’s ever known to journey to the West. But as the jitney rumbles away, holding tightly to her little brother’s and sister’s hands, she knows something is wrong. Her stepfather has summoned an associate with a predatory glint in his eyes, and Lizbet knows she needs to save them all. She just doesn’t know how…until a kind man points out the Silver Hills Boarding House. Gabe Whitfield is no saint. But he won’t let a woman be threatened. Getting involved with Lizbet and little Frankie and Jubal is the last thing on his mind, though. When his wife and their child died a few years ago, a piece of him died, too. So he’ll help this family find their way at Miss Ornetta’s boarding house. Anything more is out of the question. But that one chance meeting changes Gabe forever. Lizbet’s fierce strength makes him feel the faintest whisper of hope. And Lizbet can’t deny being drawn to the honest, gentle man whose kindness moves her. Can she trust her heart to a man who can’t let go of the past?General adult.

Subjects: Electronic books.; Western; Small Town & Rural; 20th Century;

© 2025., Harlequin,

Hemingway [videorecording] / by Burns, Ken,1953-television director,television producer.; Novick, Lynn,television director,television producer.; Ward, Geoffrey C.,screenwriter.; Botstein, Sarah,1972-television producer.; Coyote, Peter,narrator.; Daniels, Jeff,1955-voice actor.; Russell, Keri,1976-voice actor.; Clarkson, Patricia,voice actor.; Quay, Dave,voice actor.; Gilliatt, Olivia,voice actor.; Parker, Mary-Louise,voice actor.; Streep, Meryl,voice actor.; Morton, Joe,1947-voice actor.; Lucas, Josh,voice actor.; Hill, Arlo,voice actor.; Florentine Films,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster,publisher.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.;

Cinematographers, Christopher Loren Ewers, Buddy Squires ; editors, Erik Ewers, Ryan Gifford, Margaret Shepardson-Legere, Cat Harris ; music, Johnny Gandelsman, David Cieri.Narrator, Peter Coyote; voice of Ernest Hemingway, Jeff Daniels; other voices, Keri Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Dave Quay, Olivia Gilliatt, Mary-Louise Parker, Meryl Streep, Joe Morton, Josh Lucas, Arlo Hill.Examine the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers: Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway's biography with excerpts from his work. The film penetrates the myth of Hemingway to reveal a deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereophonic.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.; Authors, American;

For private home use only.

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