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Jenny McCarthy
Jenny McCarthy (born 1972)

actor, Playboy Playmate, anti-vaccine activist, presenter, film producer, autobiographer

  • Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Louder Than Words
Life Laughs
Mother warriors
Jen-X
Stirring the pot
Bad habits
Baby laughs
Belly Laughs
Healing and preventing autism a complete guide
Love, Lust & Faking It
Love, lust & faking it
Jenny McCarthy Playmate Portfolio
Love, lust, & faking it
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006)

journalist, human rights activist, peace activist, poet, activist

  • MSU Faculty of Journalism

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A Russian Diary
Is journalism worth dying for?
Za chto
Putinskaiļø aļø” Rossiiļø aļø”
A dirty war
A Small Corner of Hell
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945)

politician, human rights activist

  • Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Oxford

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Voix du défi
Letters from Burma
The voice of hope
Aung San of Burma
Aung San
Experiments with Truth
Freedom from fear
Let's visit Bhutan
Let's visit Burma
Let's visitNepal
Freedom from fear and other writings
Burma and India
Democratic Transition in Myanmar
Freedom from fear
Letters from Burma
Voice of Hope
Cartas desde Birmania
DoŹ» Ź¼Oį¹…Ź» ChanŹ»Źŗ Cu KraññŹ» (suiŹ¹ ma hutŹ») Ź¼a me lā rā lamŹ»Źŗ mha į¹…rimŹ»Źŗ khyamŹ»Źŗ reŹŗ panŹ»Źŗ tve ve khaiŹ¹ tayŹ»
PraññŹ» sÅ« khyacŹ» so DoŹ» Ź¼Oį¹…Ź» ChanŹ»Źŗ Cu KraññŹ»
Résistances
Der Weg zur Freiheit
La voix du défi
Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
PraññŹ» sÅ« khyacŹ» taiŹ¹ Ź¼a me puį¹ƒ ripŹ» myāŹŗ DoŹ» Ź¼Oį¹…Ź» ChanŹ»Źŗ Cu KraññŹ» kambhā kyoŹ» minŹ»Ź¹ khvanŹ»Źŗ myāŹŗ, samuiį¹…Ź»Źŗ vaį¹…Ź» ca kāŹŗ myāŹŗ
Burma and India
Ź¾Jigs Åŗum bral baŹ¾i raį¹… dbaį¹…
Ź¼A myuiŹŗ sāŹŗ DÄ«muikarecÄ« Ź¼A phvaiŹ¹ khyupŹ», Ź¼A thveŹŗ thveŹŗ Ź¼A tvaį¹…Ź»Źŗ reŹŗ mhÅ«Źŗ DoŹ» Ź¼Oį¹…Ź» ChanŹ»Źŗ Cu KraññŹ» minŹ»Ź¹ khvanŹ»Źŗ nhaį¹…Ź»Ź¹ Ź¼a meŹŗ Ź¼a phre myāŹŗ
DoŹ» Ź¼Oį¹…Ź» ChanŹ»Źŗ Cu KraññŹ» e* krāŹŗ phratŹ» rveŹŗ kokŹ» pvai samuiį¹…Ź»Źŗ vaį¹…Ź» kha rÄ«Źŗ cañŹ» myāŹŗ
Biruma karano tegami
Aung San / Leaders of Asia Series
Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg (1921-2013)

politician, journalist, human rights activist

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La question
Memoire algerienne
Le sieĢ€cle du dragon
L' U.R.S.S. et les juifs
Requiem pour l'oncle Sam
Retour sur la "Question"
Etoile rouge et croissant vert
La guerre d'Algerie
Le grand bond en arrieĢ€re
S.O.S. America!
Les ProbleĢ€mes du Tiers-monde
La question, suivi de Une victoire, par Jean-Paul Sartre
A Tortura
Prisonniers de guerre
La tortura
QiÄ­noq va sÅ­roq
Victorieuse Cuba
Buyuk Geri Sicrama
Abby Stein
Abby Stein (born 1991)

orator, model, LGBTQ rights activist, rabbi

  • Columbia University School of General Studies

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Becoming Eve
Becoming Eve
Eigenlijk Eva
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (born 1947)

activist, political activist, terrorist, poet, editing staff

  • City College of New York

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Assata
Still Black, Still Strong
Sparks Fly
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Hands off Assata!
Women in prison
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

nurse, poet, women's rights activist, pacifist, journalist, peace activist, suffragist

  • University of Oxford

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Testament of youth
Testament of friendship
Testament of experience
Chronicle of youth
Letters from a lost generation
The rebel passion
England's hour
Testament of youth
Testament offriendship
Wartime chronicle
Chronicle of friendship
Phoenix: Chronicle of Youth
Valiant pilgrim
In the steps of John Bunyan
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
Born 1925, a novel of youth
Testament of youth
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)
Testament of friendship; the story of Winifred Holtby
Testament of youth
The rebel passion
Radclyffe Hall
One Voice
Dark Tide
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
England's Hour
Honourable estate
Testament of a peace lover
Account rendered
Good citizenship and the League
The women at Oxford
Poems of the war and after
Pethick-Lawrence
Honourable Estate
Testament of Youth
Because you died
Humiliation with honor
Verses of a V.A.D
Seed of chaos
On becoming a writer
Honourable estate
Humiliation with honour
War diary 1913-1917
Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945
Testament of a generation
Born 1925
Testament of experience
Thrice a stranger
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
Radclyffe Hall
The story of St. Martin's
Born 1925
Verses of a V. A. D.
Testament of Youth
Pethick-Lawrence
"One of these little ones..."
Born 1925
Envoy extraordinary
Women's work in modern England
On being an author
Oxford poetry
Search after sunrise
Lady into woman
Diary 1939-1945, wartime chronicle
Envoy extraordinary
Halcyon
Halcyon or the future of monogamy
On becoming a writer
Valient pilgrim
Lady into woman
War-time letters to peace lovers
BORN 1925
Radclyffe Hall
Above all nations
Verses of a V.A.D. and other war poems
The dark tide
The story of St. Martin's (in the fields)
Women's work in modern England
Testament of experience
How shall the Christian Church prepare for new world order?
Verses of a V.A.D.
Testament of friendship
Zai Ying lun qian xian
Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)

poet, laborer, activist

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America is in the heart
America is in the heart
Nasa puso ang Amerika
All the conspirators
The Philippines is in the heart
The Philippines is in the heart
On becoming Filipino
The cry and the dedication
The voice of Bataan
American Is in the Heart, American Autobiography Ser
The power of money and other stories
If you want to know what we are
America Is in the Heart (Washington Papers
Bulosan
The power of the people
The laughter of my father
Letter from America
Chorus for America
Sound of falling light
The Voice Of Bataan 1943 [Hardcover]