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Wash: Faith In Hard Times
ISBN: 9781481242868 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wash Description: Wash is the true tale of a boy born into slavery, freed in his early years. Blamed for a crime he didn't commit, he fled for his life, leaving behind his family and his friends but keeping his faith close. After years of toil, and a multitude of temptations, Wash's faith remained strong and carried him through the hard times. Using his sharp mind to better himself and his employers, Wash overcomes many prejudices and buys and works a farm, his wife by his side, his family gathered round.
Wash Description: Wash is the true tale of a boy born into slavery, freed in his early years. Blamed for a crime he didn't commit, he fled for his lif...
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101,12 |
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Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend
ISBN: 9780292753044 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2015 The Texas of vast open spaces inhabited by independent, self-reliant men and women may be more of a dream than a reality for the state's largely urban population, but it still exists in the Big Bend. One of the most sparsely settled areas of the United States, the Big Bend attracts people who are willing to forego many modern conveniences for a lifestyle that proclaims "don't fence me in." Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Bill Wright believe that the character traits exemplified by folks in the Big... Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2015 The Texas of vast open spaces inhabited by independent, self-r... |
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97,90 |
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A Mother's Heart
ISBN: 9780989235808 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Mother's Heart shares the unconditional love of mothers through a compilation of testimonies. Each testimony serves as a tribute to a special mother. The children of the represented mothers have lovingly written about their childhood, young adult life and/or older adult experiences they shared with their mother. As you read the writers' reflections, you will feel the expressions of love exude from the pages. The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it honors those mothers who stood by their children through the trials of life and showered them with unconditional love. Second, the book...
A Mother's Heart shares the unconditional love of mothers through a compilation of testimonies. Each testimony serves as a tribute to a special mother...
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146,52 |
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Nelson Family
ISBN: 9781456526047 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles two and a half centuries of Nelsons. Characters who have blown up their own homes, built amusement parks and beat their wife and kids. This book is a work of love by one for them. It reflects our life, joy, heartbreak, strengths, and humor in sometimes unbelievable situations.
This book chronicles two and a half centuries of Nelsons. Characters who have blown up their own homes, built amusement parks and beat their wife and ...
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323,69 |
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Born with Pride, Cherishing Family Values
ISBN: 9780985276034 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the days of horse & buggy in rural Mississippi to surviving the realities of today's world in suburban Missouri, this biographical journey will ignite even the dimmest spark and encourage people through any trial and tribulation. Positivity, respecting each other, staying together through tough times, along with teaching and protecting children, takes work and Cherishing Family Values. Living through loss - of husband, children, parents and siblings, while maintaining a positive attitude and keeping fit, active and loving, 83 year-old Mrs. Martha Ramsey, grandmother of 125, uses faith...
From the days of horse & buggy in rural Mississippi to surviving the realities of today's world in suburban Missouri, this biographical journey will i...
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86,95 |
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Wayfaring Traveler: Whale Rider of the Tide
ISBN: 9781482520194 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wayfaring Traveler is the book that launches you into the heart of America and planetary change. Homeless and scared witless, Wafarer went plummeting into fiscal hemorrhage of downsizing and diaspora. Made long journey in old car; met interesting characters; lived in a tent. What mattered finally? Meet-your-eye people, truth in a handshake, the call of the wild, and seize-the-day. Wayfaring Traveler becomes suddenly homeless in Downeast Maine. Personal upheaval launches her into a societal one, our global paradigm shift of systems collapse and transformation. With help from friends, she...
Wayfaring Traveler is the book that launches you into the heart of America and planetary change. Homeless and scared witless, Wafarer went plummeting ...
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80,92 |
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In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American Struggle for Equality
ISBN: 9780252037788 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a leading dissident in the World War II concentration camps for Japanese Americans, the controversial figure Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara stands out as an icon of Japanese American resistance. In emotional, often inflammatory speeches, Kurihara attacked the U.S. government for its treatment of innocent citizens and immigrants. Because he articulated what other inmates dared not voice openly, he became a spokesperson for camp inmates.In this astute biography, Kurihara's life provides a window into the history of Japanese Americans during the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Hawai'i...
As a leading dissident in the World War II concentration camps for Japanese Americans, the controversial figure Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara stands out a...
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171,42 |
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Material History and Ritual Objects: George Blake Dexter's The Lure of Amateur Collecting
ISBN: 9780944285800 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the original 1923 front cover: "The habit of collecting is one that yields the greatest delight to its possessor, since the collector goes through the world always on the watch for the beautiful and rare. Mr. Dexter mounted the hobby as a child, and through many years of travel through many countries he has gratified it as occasion presented itself, until now he has a beautiful and unique collection, including articles of furniture, porcelain, jewels, plate and souvenirs from celebrities. Each one was acquired as the result of some interesting encounter or experience, and this book tells...
From the original 1923 front cover: "The habit of collecting is one that yields the greatest delight to its possessor, since the collector goes throug...
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47,54 |
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Dancing in the Shadows
ISBN: 9781461044475 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sephardics are the "lost Jews of America"--the dark-skinned descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, who found new homes in the Balkans, the Mideast and North Africa. Dancing in the Shadows is their fascinating story, told through one unforgettable family. Dancing in the Shadows is Cohen's novelized treatment of the stories he heard repeatedly from his grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts about the multitude of generations that made up his unique family. Through his retelling, Cohen describes his family's struggles to balance tradition against assimilation. He... The Sephardics are the "lost Jews of America"--the dark-skinned descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, who found new homes in the Bal... |
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68,59 |
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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
ISBN: 9780812245264 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president McGeorge Bundy chose to engage rather than confront black power's challenge to racial liberalism through an ambitious, long-term strategy to foster the "social... At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foun... |
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264,47 |
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Streets and Alleys: Stories with a Chicago Accent
ISBN: 9781484119228 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Streets and Alleys" is a collection of defining moments in a full life: first love, first job, first time bailing Dad out of jail. Storyteller Syd Lieberman shares the lives of four generations of an urban Jewish-American Family in Chicago, and captures the wonder of these milestones with a combination of humor and humility that bespeaks wisdom. Lieberman grew up in Albany Park, a Jewish neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side. During his childhood, Eastern European immigrants bet with Feldman, the Jewish handicapper from the "Sun-Times." Teenagers descended like locusts on the old Terminal...
"Streets and Alleys" is a collection of defining moments in a full life: first love, first job, first time bailing Dad out of jail. Storyteller Syd Li...
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60,69 |
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Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others
ISBN: 9780988678125 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 |
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Riding the Rough Stock: Riding The Rough Stock: A youngster who grew up in West Texas to become a rodeo cowboy and a tenured professor at a ma
ISBN: 9781481853088 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a youngster who grew up on a farm/ranch, who went on to become a working cowboy on a large ranch in far West Texas, a top rodeo cowboy and a tenured professor at a major university.
This is the story of a youngster who grew up on a farm/ranch, who went on to become a working cowboy on a large ranch in far West Texas, a top rodeo c...
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48,55 |
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The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941
ISBN: 9781603449489 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism.
Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed... The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country s demograph...
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166,52 |
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The Guggenheim File
ISBN: 9780615672212 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These true stories begin with the discovery of the "Guggenheim File" buried in Germany's State Archives in Hamburg. The file contains thorough and painstaking documentation, and is the starting point for the author's enormous effort to find out what happened to the families of both her mother and father before they were forced to leave Germany, and how her parents ended up in Brazil. This time-travel takes the reader through personal accounts of hardship and celebration, of success and failure, of obstacles and generosity. We are given a picture of ordinary lives caught in the grip of...
These true stories begin with the discovery of the "Guggenheim File" buried in Germany's State Archives in Hamburg. The file contains thorough and pai...
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48,55 |
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On the Land of My Father: A Farm Upbringing in Segregated Mississippi
ISBN: 9780786478507 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book evokes a time and place that is central to the American experience, a past to be remembered. This simple and direct narrative of family values and connections to the land is full of description. Land ownership bonded a black family to its white neighbors in segregated southern Mississippi in the 1940s. The author s father and brothers served in segregated armed forces to protect their country, and returned home to a segregated society. Working the land gave its workers identity, pride, and a feeling of competence. Education provided independence and freedom, and religion was the...
This book evokes a time and place that is central to the American experience, a past to be remembered. This simple and direct narrative of family valu...
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114,15 |
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Where Are All the Magpies: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780983814948 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hope fills the boundless heart of a little girl, Patty, in this true-life quest for happiness destined to grip the imaginations of "young and old" alike. Growing up in cars and a pickup truck plus trailers and countless motels in the 1940s through 1960s, the child visits a meadow where she befriends hundreds of magpies. Soon afterward, quite by accident, the girl meets sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. From that day forward, Patty sets her sights on living someday in a beautiful home with a white picket fence. Join Patty on her unforgettable journey deep into the back-roads of the American West....
Hope fills the boundless heart of a little girl, Patty, in this true-life quest for happiness destined to grip the imaginations of "young and old" ali...
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80,72 |
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In the Shadow of the Pagoda
ISBN: 9781460998717 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories and incidents begin with being a refugee in Cental China on a Japanese riverboat to escape the armies of Chiang Kai-Shek approaching our city from the South. Opium smoking passengers made me sick. I was five years old.
Memories and incidents begin with being a refugee in Cental China on a Japanese riverboat to escape the armies of Chiang Kai-Shek approaching our city...
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60,49 |
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Small Town America Framingham Thru My Eyes: The War Years and Beyond
ISBN: 9781466201026 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine what it was like to be a child during the time of this war, that raged on for over 4 years. Our men, my uncles among them, left to fight in a distant war. We never knew if we would see them again.Songs were tearful, hopeful, and expectant. Sacrifices were made so troops could get what they needed first. The daily life we lived held them in our hearts and in our efforts to conserve and produce so they could come home. What a magnificent spirit seemed to grasp our country, and the souls that walked the town I lived in. At the end of the war we all jumped for joy, and in my home our...
Imagine what it was like to be a child during the time of this war, that raged on for over 4 years. Our men, my uncles among them, left to fight in a ...
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48,51 |
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Connie: Lessons from a Life in the Saddle
ISBN: 9781482347609 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Connie: Lessons from a Life in the Saddle" is Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist David Horsey's tribute to Connie Cox -- Montana rancher, rodeo cowboy, raconteur, rascal and prairie philosopher. In an evocative biographical essay, collected passages of wit and wisdom and 100 photographs, Horsey shares the story of a true son of the American West. Horsey writes: "There are lessons to be learned from men like Connie Cox. And I have to say, there are many such men in the rangelands of Montana and elsewhere in the West; men who have worked hard most days of their lives and who will not be...
"Connie: Lessons from a Life in the Saddle" is Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist David Horsey's tribute to Connie Cox -- Montana rancher, rodeo cowboy...
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92,86 |
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