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 List price: $17.95 6 new & used available from $13.44. He was born, he tells us in his Interesting Narrative of his life, in Essaka, a small village in what is today eastern Nigeria that was ruled by the powerful eighteenth century King of Benin. His parents prophetically named him Olaudah Equiano, to signify his expected role as a leader—as one favored and who spoke with a loud voice. They dressed him after the tradition of their greatest warriors.... |
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 List price: $18.95 30 new & used available from $10.49. E.J. Jernigan s memoir offers readers a fascinating glimpse of life as an enlisted man aboard the USS Saufley, one of the most highly decorated destroyers of World War II. It is a rarely told story of the sailors who fought the war from boiler rooms, after-steering spaces, radio shacks, and other gritty places that keep a warship going. For the author, it was a world of strong emotions and quick r... |
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Rizal Without The Overcoat (newsprint edition)  2 new available from $24.95. "Through writing about history, Ocampo writes on Rizal as if he happened yesterday. In the clean, cool style of a good journalist...Ocampo is one histrian who has never been know to impose dogmas and definitive treatises. Reading Ocampo's history is like sitting down with a friend who shares what he has learned. But what he does best is to share the certainty of his doubts. Which probably makes hi... |
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 List price: $15.95 15 new & used available from $9.80. A must read for caregivers, this book includes selected affirmations to strengthen and support families who are dealing with illness.... |
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