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Publication Date:  February 5, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Memoir Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing Length:  352 pages Buy:    Audible |  Paperback  Synopsis A powerful new memoir about growing up with a hard father in a hard land Atz Kilcher learned many vital skills while helping his parents carve a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness: how to work hard, think on his feet, make do, invent, and use what was on hand to accomplish whatever task was in front of him. He also learned how to lie in order to please his often volatile father and put himself in harm's way to protect his mother and younger, weaker members of the family. Much later in life, as Atz began to reflect on his upbringing, seek to ...

  Publication Date:  February 4, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Racism Narrator:  Layla F Saad Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing            Length:  5 hours 19 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the  Me and White Supremacy Workbook .  The updated and expanded  Me and White Supremacy  takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contex...