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HW Pick: ‘Die Free’ By Cheryl Wills (Excerpt and Signing)

This great American is told with deep love & spellbinding fearlessness, Die Free stretches from Haywood County, Tennessee, in the 1860s to New York City in the 20th century.

When award-winning television NY1 news anchor and reporter Cheryl Wills discovers the storied treasure of her great-great-great-grandfather who fled his slave master to fight in the Civil War and whose courage was mirrored in her father, a courageous NYC firefighter, she shares the unvarnished truth about the Wills’ family roots, ever entwined in passion, music, and faith.

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