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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad. Thanks to a surprising romance--and a spirited woman who teaches her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love--a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Picking up where Ibtisam Barakat's first memoir, Tasting the Sky, left off, Balcony on the Moon follows her through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. This memoir about pursuing dreams in the face of adversity chronicles Ibitsam's desire to be a writer and shows how she finds inspiration through writing letters to pen pals and from an adult who encourages her to keep at it. But the most surprising...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine you learn that there are kids your age living in a prison with their families. None of them have done anything wrong. It is racial prejudice and fear that has put these people there. Then imagine that your family volunteers to live in one of these places to help the people who are imprisoned. That is what twelve-year-old Helen Hannan experiences in 1945. She hears about these prisons before most other Americans do. Traveling to a place called...
6704) Up and doing: two presidents, three mistakes, and one great weekend--touchpoints to a better world
Author
Publisher
Disruption Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his family arrive in Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the first Great Migration. He recounts in vivid detail his childhood and education in the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville and South Side neighborhoods that make up his "sacred ground." <> Revealing a priceless trove of experiences, memories, ideas, and opinions, Black describes how it felt...
Publisher
Bookstand Publishing
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"Be to me is comprised of William H. Hodgkins' written and received letters, post war reminiscences ... and extracts from his book entitled, The battle of Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865. These elements combined, chronicle the war as he saw it, his relationship with Miss Augusta S. Hayward, and his rise from private to brevet major"--Page xi
6708) Team photograph
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In her extraordinary graphic novel -- which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir -- Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoir. Justin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift--he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling with anxiety and obsession, and attempting to maintain a faltering long-distance relationship. As a man whose brand of therapy has always been motion, whether in a skate park or on a snowdrift, Hocking needs an...
6710) Diario de Oaxaca
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Diario de Oaxaca is artist Peter Kuper's chronicle of two years living in Oaxaca, Mexico, encountering its modern conflicts against the backdrop of the country's ageless beauty and enduring rhythms. From a town held hostage by soldiers to the miracle of the Monarchs' sanctuary, Kuper renders his experiences in vivid detail, capturing both the light and shadows that define life in Mexico."--Jacket
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando el padre de Reyna Grande deja a su esposa y sus tres hijos atrás en un pueblo de México para hacer el peligroso viaje a través de la frontera a los Estados Unidos, promete que pronto regresará; con el dinero suficiente para construir la casa de sus sueños. Sus promesas se vuelven más difíciles de creer cuando los meses de espera se convierten en años. Cuando se lleva a su esposa para reunirse con él, Reyna y sus hermanos son depositados...
6713) The betrayal: the true story of my brush with death in the world of narcos, launderers, and treason
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From Robert Mazur, undercover agent and bestselling author of The Infiltrator, comes the riveting true story of grave corruption at the heart of one of the most explosive DEA missions of his career. Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medelln̕ drug cartel, he reemerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and...
6714) Grand: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can't escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it's revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as...
Author
Pub. Date
1837
Language
English
Description
Diaries covering Sept. 1837 ("First Impressions of Cambridge") & 1839-1908; ms. autobiography covering years 1821-1866; ms. reminiscences (longest covering years 1824-[1865]); mss. on historical topics, 1876-[190-]--incl. 1876 4th of July oration on Concord history, material relating to Battle of Concord, ms. of Houses, & Owners or Occupants in Concord, 1885,"Old Roads in Concord" (read before CAS in 1889), "The Middlesex Hotel" (1900), "An Old House"...
6716) Zhi xiao wo xing ming
Author
Series
Publisher
Shanghai ren min chu ban she
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文
Description
Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral, was translated globally, and read on the floor of Congress. It inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Now Miller reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Seen by the media in 2015 as a white woman who had knowingly been passing as black, the author shares her nuanced and complex story, from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black, forcing readers to reconsider race and identity"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Situado durante los extraordinarios eventos del 6 de enero del 2021, este libro de memorias de Aquilino Gonell tiene como base las luchas y alegrías de la experiencia migrante las cuales han definido el experimento norteamericano"--
Aquilino Gonell era un jóven cuando llegó a los Estados Unidos de la República Dominicana. Aunque no hablaba inglés, se dedicó a su nueva tierra adoptada, luchando para conseguir el dichoso sueño americano. Su...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Stephens was a black reporter for the black newspaper Weekly Anglo-African when the Civil War broke out. He joined the 54th Massachusetts, the first black Union regiment. Promoted to sergeant, he stormed Battery Wagner with his regiment. Surviving the Union defeat, Stephens served with the 54th through the end of the war.
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