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"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy...
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A wealthy Chicago man with a beautiful wife and son is haunted by the warning from a mysterious assassin from South Sudan, who promised to return one day and finish the job he started.
Daniel Bennett has become a cultural phenomenon after penning a bestselling novel based on his ordeal of trying to bring a powerful criminal to justice. He receives a warning to assassin John Smith may be returning to finish the job. Now everything-- wife, son, wealth...
3) Homecoming
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Reporter Dana Nichols has come home to Mississippi, determined to uncover the truth behind the tragedy of her parents' long-ago murder-suicide and clear her family name once and for all. The last thing she expected was an instant attraction to handsome, dedicated doctor Tyler Cole—or that her investigation would cause someone to try to destroy Tyler's career and reputation. Now, as they search the past for answers, they must walk a dangerous
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Presents a narrative exploration of the health-care crisis in inner-city communities as drawn from the author's experiences as an emergency room resident in the Newark community where he grew up, in an account that illuminates the complicated human realities behind the statistics.
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The Three Doctors-Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt-discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: as children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance. While each young man dealt with the turmoil caused by an absent father, with no male role model to turn to for advice, each veered dangerously close to a life of delinquency, drugs, and crime. But despite...
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"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
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