Slovo, Gillian

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997

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Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008

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O'Malley, Padraig.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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Mandela, Winnie

Summary: "491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela's moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers will gain insight into the brutality she experienced and her depths of despair, as well as her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Semenya, Caster

Summary: In this memoir for young readers, Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya reflects on her groundbreaking career and her fight for identity in professional sports.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2024

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Semenya, Caster

Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Kohler, Sheila

Summary: "A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history,"--NoveList.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017

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Mandela, Nelson

Contents: Struggle -- Freedom -- Reconciliation -- Nation building -- Development -- Education -- Culture -- Religion -- Health -- Children -- Heroes -- Peace.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003

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Wright, Adrienne

Summary: On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story's events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2019

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Cohen, David

Summary: Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009

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Muller, Peter Paul

Summary: A story of the South African lawyer Bram Fischer who defended Nelson Mandela and other members of his group during the Rivonia Trial.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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Brand, Christo

Summary: After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014

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Ellenport, Craig

Summary: Dennis Brutus was a poet and human rights activist whose works centered on his sufferings and those of Black South Africans. For fourteen years, Dennis taught English and Afrikaans in South Africa. As the white minority government increased restrictions on the black population, he became involved in a series of anti-apartheid related activities, including efforts to end discrimination in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021

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Petersen, Neal

Contents: 1973 -- The dream tree -- Building boats -- California -- Mining diamonds -- The gifts -- First solo crossing -- Ireland -- Back to Ireland -- A family Christmas -- The BOC Atlantic alone -- Charleston, South Carolina -- Racing to the Southern Ocean -- The Earth is flat -- Sailing with Gwen -- Choosing Charleston -- Another OSTAR -- Back to Charleston -- Leg one -- Leg two -- Leg three -- Leg...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2004

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Summary: Presents the life of the South African leader in graphic novel format, from his early efforts working as an activist against apartheid, to his twenty-seven year imprisonment, to his election to the presidency of the country in 1994.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009

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Lake, Theia

Summary: "In this informative text, readers will learn all about the exceptional civil rights leader Nelson Mandela. The late president of South Africa spent more than 25 years in prison fighting apartheid. Mandela's example lives on for others to follow, as we continue to work to overcome racism and discrimination. Photographs of the era and quotes from Mandela and others will bring the information to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2024

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Mandela, Nelson

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1996

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Mandela, Nelson

Summary: This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2010

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McDivitt, Lindsey

Summary: "This biography follows Nelson Mandela from his work with the African National Congress, to his imprisonment on Robben Island, to his extraordinary rise to the presidency"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2021

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Nagadya Isdahl, Nansubuga

Summary: "Before he was the first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was a boy with a traditional Thembu upbringing. He went on to study law and become involved with African nationalist politics. The government had established an apartheid (a system of segregation that privileged white people), and Mandela worked to overthrow this system. He was arrested, accused of treason, and thrown in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021

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Mandela, Nelson

Summary: Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1995

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Woerden, Henk van

Summary: Publisher description: If ever one individual could be said to have embodied the tragedy of apartheid, Dimitri Tsafas would be that man. At a time when color was all, Tsafas, bastard son of a Greek father and an African mother, was untouchable -- too black for the whites and too white for the blacks. Stateless, homeless, and loveless, on September 6, 1966, he entered South Africa's Parliament...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001

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Lodge, Tom

Contents: Childhood and upbringing -- Becoming a notable -- Volunteer-in-chief -- Making a messiah -- Trials -- Prisoner 466/64 -- Leading from prison -- Messianic politics and the transition to democracy -- Embodying the nation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006

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Mandela, Nelson

Summary: Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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