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• Just as I Am

  a Memoir

  Tyson, Cicely

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  Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades.

• A Lesson Before Dying

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  A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.

• Sounder

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  The story of a black sharecropper family living in Louisiana during the Depression. The father steals food for his family and is sent to prison. While he is in jail the mother provides love, security and strength at home. The oldest son bravely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trip to Bountiful

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  An elderly mother flees the suffocating grasp of her overprotective son, and sets out on a life-affirming journey to her picturesque hometown in this adaptation of the Tony-nominated play by Horton Foote.

• The Rosa Parks Story

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  Viewers will follow Rosa Parks' life from the time she was a private-school student, to her rise to infamy.

• River Niger

  Death of a Prophet

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  The river Niger: A house painter/poet struggles to provide emotional and financial support for his cancer-stricken wife. Death of a prophet: Chronicles the final twenty-four hours of the life of Malcolm X.

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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  The history of blacks in the South as seen through the eyes of a 110-year-old former slave. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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  The history of blacks in the South as seen through the eyes of a 110-year-old former slave. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.

• Alex Cross

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  A lawman is torn between justice and personal vengeance in this action drama.