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Yardie: Struggles of a Young Jamaican Growing Up in New York a Memoir
ISBN: 9781462883257 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,53 |
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Seasons in Beulah Land
ISBN: 9781463624576 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since this book has sort of a religious title (Beulah Land comes from an old gospel song and is another name for Heaven), Billy Blackman has a confession: The majority of these chapters, these true adventures in an ordinary life, were written from behind bars... No, it's not what you're thinking. He has yet to be convicted of a felony, thus he's never been in jail. He has jailhouse experience since he used to stand outside the county courthouse in Wewahitchka, Florida and toss cigarettes up to a waiting hand protruding out of a barred, second-story window. The other end of the hand was...
Since this book has sort of a religious title (Beulah Land comes from an old gospel song and is another name for Heaven), Billy Blackman has a confess...
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40,47 |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Sailor...: The Life of Colin Kerby, OAM
ISBN: 9781463717216 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ninety year old Colin Kerby OAM is a distinguished Australian of many talents: commercial diver, fitter and turner, engineer, inventor, brewer, confectioner, aircraft manufacturer and boat builder. His most important contributions to society include the saving of nearly 500 lives from drowning and the invention and building of machines for cancer research and organ transplantation. How can one man achieve so much? Read the story of Col's life in this enjoyable, funny and fast paced biography to find out
Ninety year old Colin Kerby OAM is a distinguished Australian of many talents: commercial diver, fitter and turner, engineer, inventor, brewer, confec...
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80,92 |
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Proud Americans: Growing Up as Children of Immigrants
ISBN: 9781466294561 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children of immigrants are different. They are their parents' guides to American ways. PROUD AMERICANS: GROWING UP AS CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS includes a collection of inspirational stories about approximately 50 people's joys and struggles while coming of age in the United States as children of immigrants. Included are Hollywood stars, high-profile media and business people, award-winning athletes, members of the President's cabinet, elected officials and those whose names may not be recognizable but whose stories are certain to be memorable. You'll meet people like Tony Xiong, whose dream is...
Children of immigrants are different. They are their parents' guides to American ways. PROUD AMERICANS: GROWING UP AS CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS includes ...
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52,40 |
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Pebbles on the Shore: Memories of an American Growing Up in India
ISBN: 9781466348394 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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32,17 |
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Little Afrika Bound in Texas
ISBN: 9781466392489 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Little Afrika Bound in Texas" is based on the history of the Piru-Bloods lives in California's most notorius street gang. The tale begins with Maceo Rodgers' love for his people as he moved up the ladder among an underworld filled with money, the desire of power, sex, and violence. In his ventures, he encountered members of some of the worlds deadliest crime organizations, such as the Mexican Mafia, Jamaican Possses, Crips, Columbian Cartel. The author Maceo Rodgers, began his plight in San Diego as a teen joining Little Afrika Family Piru Rolling 1980's. Now incarcerated in Texas prisons...
"Little Afrika Bound in Texas" is based on the history of the Piru-Bloods lives in California's most notorius street gang. The tale begins with Maceo ...
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100,95 |
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Rooting Branches: Understanding Apples Book Three
ISBN: 9781466426450 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rooting Branches, book three in the Understanding Apples Series by JS Moore, explores the importance or remembering where you came from in order to know where you are headed. Expanding upon the idea that everyone has a story to tell and everyone is connected in some way, Moore begins to seek out the answers in drawing out the branches to his own family tree - which is no easy task for him... to say the least.
Rooting Branches, book three in the Understanding Apples Series by JS Moore, explores the importance or remembering where you came from in order to kn...
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40,26 |
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The Farm Story: A South Dakota Memoir (color)
ISBN: 9781466490796 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Also available in black and white for $12.99. A story from the heartland, told from the heart What was it really like to live on a South Dakota farm during the sweeping changes of the 20th century American Midwest? Helen (Ackley) Johnson grew up on a farm in the years between the two World Wars. In this remarkable personal memoir, enhanced with black and white and color photographs by the author (see deluxe color edition for color version), she describes day-to-day farm activities at a time when the small family farm was still a widespread, viable economic way of life in the United States....
Also available in black and white for $12.99. A story from the heartland, told from the heart What was it really like to live on a South Dakota farm d...
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109,24 |
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Accepting the Challenge!
ISBN: 9781469139647 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Accepting the Challenge!
ISBN: 9781469139654 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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A Cry for Justice
ISBN: 9781557289759 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daniel A. Rudd, born a slave in Bardstown, Kentucky, grew up to achieve much in the years following the Civil War. His Catholic faith, passion for activism, and talent for writing led him to increasingly influential positions in many places. One of his important early accomplishments was the publication of the American Catholic Tribune, which Rudd referred to as the only Catholic journal owned and published by colored men. At its zenith, the Tribune, run out of Detroit and Cincinnati, where Rudd lived, had ten thousand subscribers, making it one of the most successful black newspapers in the...
Daniel A. Rudd, born a slave in Bardstown, Kentucky, grew up to achieve much in the years following the Civil War. His Catholic faith, passion for act...
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176,32 |
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On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life
ISBN: 9781594485770 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A memoir of a young woman, the product of a strict upbringing by conservative Indian parents, who decides to go on a Ram-Singha, her Indian version of the rumspringa, and learns how to dance, swim, drive, travel, and play in order to be happy.
Rupinder Gill was raised under the strict rules of her parents' Indian upbringing. While her friends were practicing their plies, having slumber parties, and spending their summers at camp, Rupinder was cleaning, babysitting her siblings, and watching hours on end of American television. But at age 30, Rupinder realized how much she regretted... A memoir of a young woman, the product of a strict upbringing by conservative Indian parents, who decides to go on a Ram-Singha, her Indian version...
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92,48 |
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Fabulous Korean Four: Autobiographies
ISBN: 9781596891135 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book of autobiographies by Korean middle school students is something that is needed for Korean studies and Korean American studies, in my opinion. Because this book contains our voices, this book is very powerful. In a sense, we are documenting our own history. Because our lives are like the lives of other middle school students who are Koreans, I believe that this book contains an important history for everyone who reads this book. I hope that teachers in middle school, high school, and college will read this book, so that they could understand their Korean students better. Koreans...
"This book of autobiographies by Korean middle school students is something that is needed for Korean studies and Korean American studies, in my opini...
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358,76 |
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The Man Who Thought Like a Ship
ISBN: 9781603446648 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J. Richard "Dick" Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Steffy's job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle. He had volunteered for the job even though he had no qualifications for it. For twenty-five years he'd been an...
J. Richard "Dick" Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They we...
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141,98 |
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Tracks Along the Clear Fork: Stories from Shackelford and Throckmorton Counties
ISBN: 9781603447843 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history essential. This collection of stories recounts the colorful past of the Clear Fork country--the land along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in present-day Shackelford and Throckmorton counties. The editors focus first on the area's military past--Camp Cooper, Fort Griffin, and the society they spawned. The second focus is on the pioneers--the people who made the Clear Fork country their home and helped to establish its character."The editors have...
"In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history ess...
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130,83 |
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Tracks Along the Clear Fork: Stories from Shackelford and Throckmorton Counties
ISBN: 9781603447850 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history essential. This collection of stories recounts the colorful past of the Clear Fork country--the land along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in present-day Shackelford and Throckmorton counties. The editors focus first on the area's military past--Camp Cooper, Fort Griffin, and the society they spawned. The second focus is on the pioneers--the people who made the Clear Fork country their home and helped to establish its character. "The... "In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history ... |
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191,02 |
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France Davis: An American Story Told
ISBN: 9781607811831 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "As I was coming up, it was painful to me not to have been given my own nickname. It made me feel different, or rather that I was being treated differently from other family members. I wondered why everybody else was spoken to in terms of their identity, their character, their behavior, and I was simply identified by the 'tag, ' my given name. But then, when I read in a book that France meant free, I began to think of it as imbuing me with a sense of flight, of movement. Ultimately, I came to believe my name spoke for itself and that I did not need any other." from the book Imbued with... "As I was coming up, it was painful to me not to have been given my own nickname. It made me feel different, or rather that I was being treated dif... |
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78,32 |
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Sissieretta Jones : The Greatest Singer of Her Race, `1868-1933
ISBN: 9781611170726 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American soprano during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, Jones also sang before four U.S. presidents. In this compelling book-length biography of Jones, Maureen Donnelly Lee chronicles the successes and challenges of this musical pioneer. Lee details how Jones was able to overcome substantial obstacles of racial bias to build a twenty-eight-year...
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distingu...
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166,52 |
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The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver
ISBN: 9781617204180 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During his life time George Washington Carver was referred to as the black Leonardo da Vinci. His research into alternative crops to replace cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes revolutionized Southern farming. Carver was born into slavery, once slavery was abolished Carver traveled expensively to study and educate himself. He was the first head of the Agricultural Department at the famous Tuskegee Institute. This book is a recollection of Glenn Clark on his close relationship with Carver.
During his life time George Washington Carver was referred to as the black Leonardo da Vinci. His research into alternative crops to replace cotton, s...
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40,95 |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781936041503 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,05 |
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