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Comes a little light

2008
The story of what happened to Rosemary Molser and her family during the World War. A rare story of hope amidst this war's tragic ashes.

John Glenn

2005
Presents a short biography of Senator John Glenn from his childhood in Ohio, his service in the Air Corps during World War Two and Korea, participation in the space program, and years in the United States Senate.

A farewell to justice

Jim Garrison, JFK's assassination, and the case that should have changed history
2005
Draws on interviews, previously unreleased couments, and witness testimony to extend New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Alexander Dub?ek

1990
Follows the life of the Czechoslovakian leader.

Peter Benenson

taking a stand against injustice--Amnesty International
1991
Biography of the English-Jewish lawyer who founded Amnesty International, the organization dedicated to investigating and publicizing civil rights abuses the world over.

The times of my life

a memoir
1990
The prolific author describes how his interest in writing developed as he was growing up in the Oklahoma of the Depression and chronicles his years after World War II as a government worker in Africa and a Peace Corps official.

We had sneakers, they had guns

the kids who fought for civil rights in Mississippi
2009
Illustrator and journalist Tracy Sugarman describes his experiences reporting on the nearly one thousand students who traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1964 as volunteers to help African-American citizens register to vote. Includes a selection of Sugarman's illustrations.

Red Tail captured, Red Tail free

memoirs of a Tuskegee airman and POW
2005
Presents the illustrated memoirs of Alexander Jefferson as he relates his experiences as an African-American pilot during World War II, one of thirty-two Tuskegee Airmen to be taken prisoner by the Germans.

Call of duty

a Montana girl in World War II
1999
A memoir in which Grace Porter, a twenty-one-year-old teacher in 1942, tells about her adventures after she volunteered to join the Women's Army Corps and was sent overseas to serve as a cryptographic technician stationed in London.

The Sakharov file

a study in courage
1986
Introduces the lives of Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner, against a background of Russian history, especially since the 1917 Revolution. Discusses how Dr. Sakharov's and his wife's outspoken ideas and activities ran afoul of the authorities and the punishments they have endured for upholding the cause of human rights.

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