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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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BATMcVicker, Idelette
Summary: "A white South African woman shares her journey away from racism, helping us realize that grappling with the legacy of white supremacy is a lifelong work that requires both inner transformation and societal change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 MCVMandela, Winnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MANBrand, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON BRAMandela, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANPaton, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATPaton, Alan.
Summary: Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATFairbanks, Eve
Summary: "A decade in the making, The Inheritors tracks three ordinary South Africans over fifty years in a sweeping, exquisitely written look at what really happens after a country resolves to end white supremacy. Dipuo grew up on the south side of the mine dump that separated Johannesburg's Black townships from the white-only city. Some nights she hiked to the top. On the other side were glittering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0968 FAIOmotoso, Yewande
Summary: "Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OMOO'Malley, Padraig.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.0609 OMAOmotoso, Yewande
Summary: "Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbors. One is black, the other white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed, and are living with questions, disappointments, and secrets that have brought them shame. And each has something that the woman next door deeply desires. Sworn enemies, the two share a hedge and a deliberate hostility, which they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC OMOSummary: In 1957, Rogosin travelled to South Africa and created a powerfully, moving drama exposing the harsh reality of life under the system apartheid. Filmed secretly under the noses of the feared South African police, Rogosin, his crew, and cast risked arrest and deportation. Miriam Makeba was banned from her country after travelling to Venice for the movie's premiere. The scenes shot in the vibrant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMMalala, Justice
Summary: "Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader's popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? In The Plot to Save South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.07 MALTutu, Desmond.
Summary: "The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. At the center of this attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.065 TUTUWaldmeir, Patti.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.064 walGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORSummary: Athol Fugard's searing coming of age masterpiece set in apartheid era South Africa. On a rainy afternoon in his mother's tea house, lonely 17 year-old Hally and Sam and Willie, two middle-aged black servants, share idyllic memories of their lifelong friendship. But when Hally learns that his invalid alcoholic father is coming home from the hospital, he unleashes his resentment and rage on Sam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005