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Three Famines cal ripken jr.'s all starsFamine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual venality. Through the lens of three of the most disastrous famines in modern history the potato famine in Ireland, the famine in Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines that plagued

Lesbian activist Storme DeLarverie

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the girl he's protected from an abusive father since they were little

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Offit argues that

In the jungles of Papua New Guinea

Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system

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protecting her-and finding the right time to tell her his dark and terrible secret

Between 1917 and 1922

Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told

Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America