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A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot
Nonviolent by Emily Yellin and Reverend James Lawson Jr.
Emily Yellin and Reverend James Lawson Jr.


The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for shame to “change sides.” For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.

Nonviolent is the posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.

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