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The Remarkable Life of Kitty McInerney: How a Poor Irish Immigrant Raised 17 Children in Great Depression New York
ISBN: 9781449539276 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 7th, 1955, Kitty McInerney lay dying in a New York hospital bed. The forty-seven year-old Irish immigrant, suffering from severe toxemia, was preparing for an emergency c-section to give birth to her 17th child. As a Catholic priest performed her last rites, Kitty succumbed to a rare moment of quiet reflection. While her thoughts centered on the fate of her many young children, Kitty found no solace in contemplating her improbable tale of survival... her impoverished youth in rural Ireland, her courageous journey from a small Irish village to the largest city in the world, and her...
On December 7th, 1955, Kitty McInerney lay dying in a New York hospital bed. The forty-seven year-old Irish immigrant, suffering from severe toxemia, ...
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A Bridge to France
ISBN: 9781442171367 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a poor girl growing up in the rural south, Joan Harrell ran barefoot and built imaginary playhouses in the tall grass. But, although she rarely strayed far from her own back stoop, Joan often crossed a bridge of memories built by her mother, a Bridge to France. Through Mama's yearning, France became a place that was happier, grander, and better in every way than the one in which mother and daughter found themselves.
As a poor girl growing up in the rural south, Joan Harrell ran barefoot and built imaginary playhouses in the tall grass. But, although she rarely str...
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Nri
ISBN: 9781450567527 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NRI is an eye witness to history account of a non-resident Indian whose childhood in Kuwait was interrupted by the Invasion and First Gulf War, returned to India she barely knew for her education before going on to a music career in Mumbai. NRI highlights the contributions non-resident Indians are making to human rights and mental health in the United States, where she presently works as a human rights advocate.
NRI is an eye witness to history account of a non-resident Indian whose childhood in Kuwait was interrupted by the Invasion and First Gulf War, return...
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40,20 |
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Nearly Ninety
ISBN: 9781450017442 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As far back as I can remember, as a little girl, when asked about his age my dad would respond, "Nearly ninety!" He celebrated his actual ninetieth birthday December 1996; accordingly, as a tribute at his party I decided to recount some of the things he experienced in his first ninety years. It was through conversations and hearing his stories over and over that this book came into being. It shows his struggles to attain his dreams when he began with very little. It took place in the Deep South, where being Black and being male were already considered "two strikes" against him. "It can be...
As far back as I can remember, as a little girl, when asked about his age my dad would respond, "Nearly ninety!" He celebrated his actual ninetieth bi...
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Through Tremendous Storms to Joy Unspeakable
ISBN: 9781450076401 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I cried to the LORD. And He heard me. I should be dead, but I am still here. I should have on a padded jacket and be locked in a mental hospital, but I am still here. He came to me and saved my life. I am an Overcomer because of the Mercy and Loving kindness of God. To the readers of my book, if you are battling depression, grief, mourning, and have broken heart and you aren't able to deal with the death/loss of someone that you Love with all your heart. Then this Book is for you. My life's experiences will show and teach you what I had to do just be able to breathe. The only one who can help...
I cried to the LORD. And He heard me. I should be dead, but I am still here. I should have on a padded jacket and be locked in a mental hospital, but ...
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Conversations with Drunks
ISBN: 9781450065382 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Our Remarkable Journey
ISBN: 9781450070591 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,44 |
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Our Remarkable Journey
ISBN: 9781450070607 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,82 |
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African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention
ISBN: 9780816083312 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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200,40 |
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The Transplant
ISBN: 9781450023481 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE TRANSPLANT The Biography of a Former Slave Who Live to be a 137-years-old Dr. Sherman Clifton Byrd The Transplant is the true story about the "other side of the coin" of slavery days in America. The Transplant derives its name from the actual experience of a twelve-year-old African boy who, in the year 1977, was once hundred and thirty-five years old. From his experience the facts reveal that he was uprooted from the shores of Liberia, West Africa, placed on Captain Legree's wooden slave ship, and transplanted to American shores in 1854. This African lad, who almost did not survive the...
THE TRANSPLANT The Biography of a Former Slave Who Live to be a 137-years-old Dr. Sherman Clifton Byrd The Transplant is the true story about the "oth...
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64,34 |
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit
ISBN: 9781442206120 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of such great works as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, as well as essays, folklore, short stories, poetry, and more, Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as one of the pillars of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as one of the most important and influential African American writers of the past century. Here, Plant offers a biography of the literary master that takes her spirituality into account in both her life and her works in order to shape a fuller picture of the woman, the writer, the philosopher, and the spirit that...
The author of such great works as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, as well as essays, folk...
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73,27 |
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The Mentality of Racist White America Is the Mentality of Black America
ISBN: 9781450096362 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Profiles of Italian Americans: Achieving the Dream and Giving Back
ISBN: 9781599540160 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. The large majority of the twenty million Italian Americans are law-abiding, hard-working, and accomplished. Yet the image of Italian Americans is often distorted by stereotypes portrayed in popular media. PROFILES OF ITALIAN AMERICANS: ACHIEVING THE DREAM AND GIVING BACK counters those stereotypes with brief sketches of Italian Americans who have achieved success and enriched the lives of others. Included are the well known, such as Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York, and the less known, such as Betty DellaCorte, founder of the first shelter for...
Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. The large majority of the twenty million Italian Americans are law-abiding, hard-working, and accomplished. Yet ...
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Harry Graf Kessler: Faces and Times: an annotated translation by John Foster Leich
ISBN: 9781439270714 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harry Graf Kessler (1868-1937) was an influential German patron of the arts, essayist, museologist, publisher, politician, diplomat, and pacifist, who knew and advised many leading European personalities of his time, from the aged Otto von Bismarck to Josephine Baker, the legendary American-in-Paris night-club star, from the philosopher Albert Einstein to the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The son of a wealthy Hamburg banker, operating in Paris, and an aristocratic Irish beauty (much admired by Germany's then Kaiser, Wilhelm I), Harry was educated and fluent in three languages, and later studied...
Harry Graf Kessler (1868-1937) was an influential German patron of the arts, essayist, museologist, publisher, politician, diplomat, and pacifist, who...
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
ISBN: 9780062201027 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2016 NAACP Image Award Winner Winner of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit--a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Devil in the White City, and Medical Apartheid. In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese "pygmy"--a person of petite... 2016 NAACP Image Award Winner Winner of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction An award-w... |
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
ISBN: 9780061732478 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called "a transporting, enlightening book" tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan. Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, calls "one of the most inspiring books I have ever read,"... The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called "a transporting, en... |
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The Story of Another Child's Christmas in Wales
ISBN: 9780979338786 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humorous stories of the life-loving people in South Wales shared by a once eleven-year-old boy. Lots of laughs, love and boisterous family fun at Christmastime.
Humorous stories of the life-loving people in South Wales shared by a once eleven-year-old boy. Lots of laughs, love and boisterous family fun at Chri...
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The Missing Son: A Faroe Island Saga
ISBN: 9781450560153 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hans Jacobsen, my father, was born at the end of the 19th century in the Faroe Islands - eighteen small, rocky islands just below the Arctic Circle, north-west of the British Isles. He started sailing full time at age 14 or 15, travelling all around the world before finally settling in San Francisco fifteen years later. In 1916, at age 20, he made his last visit to his homeland. Some 80 years later I travelled alone to the Faroe Islands, longing to see these islands that I knew so little about, hoping to find out about my father's family, but not knowing at all what to expect. "The Missing...
Hans Jacobsen, my father, was born at the end of the 19th century in the Faroe Islands - eighteen small, rocky islands just below the Arctic Circle, n...
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Fiddler's Daughter: Living with Scleroderma
ISBN: 9781452813158 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this autobiography/memoir, Clauda (Martin) Lavertu describes the many challenges in her life. Being brought up with a sometimes difficult father, then in middle age being diagnosed with scleroderma, she persevered with the help of her mother and her faith. The large family was brought up with music, song, and dance, and always stayed close and supported each other. Getting to understand her father and learning to live with a disease, she always found a way to stay strong and to face the challenges head-on. In a small, French-speaking town in New Brunswick, Canada, the large family...
In this autobiography/memoir, Clauda (Martin) Lavertu describes the many challenges in her life. Being brought up with a sometimes difficult father, t...
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Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights
ISBN: 9781604738827 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first full-length biography of Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956). Although he called himself a -sidelines activist, - his advocacy for racial equality was never watered-down or half-hearted. His strategy was to work indirectly, sometimes behind the scenes, to influence public policy and to mobilize groups with special concerns, especially black sharecroppers. Together with W. E. B. Du Bois and E. Franklin Frazier he has been named as a -founding father- among contemporary black sociologists. In a coalition with an embattled band of southern white liberals he pressed the... This is the first full-length biography of Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956). Although he called himself a -sidelines activist, - his advocacy for rac... |
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