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Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
ISBN: 9781469626383 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.
Using legal records, institutional files, and extensive oral history interviews--some conducted in sign language--Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner piece together the story of a deaf man accused in 1925 of attempted rape, found insane at a lunacy hearing,... Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had ...
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156,72 |
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The Song of My Heart
ISBN: 9781504329187 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This inspirational book is for those who love nature and gardening; and for those who enjoy listening to the beautiful songs of the birds. My garden is a symbol of love for my parents and the legacy they left for my family and me. For me, the garden conveys a connection with nature and my childhood. I have unforgettable memories. It also symbolizes my love for my parents and appreciation for the legacy they left behind. They are with me in my glorious garden all the time. Our home in Armenia was adorned with beautiful flowers that glowed and glittered under the golden beams of the sun. So... This inspirational book is for those who love nature and gardening; and for those who enjoy listening to the beautiful songs of the birds. My garde... |
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The Song of My Heart
ISBN: 9781504329200 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This inspirational book is for those who love nature and gardening; and for those who enjoy listening to the beautiful songs of the birds. My garden is a symbol of love for my parents and the legacy they left for my family and me. For me, the garden conveys a connection with nature and my childhood. I have unforgettable memories. It also symbolizes my love for my parents and appreciation for the legacy they left behind. They are with me in my glorious garden all the time. Our home in Armenia was adorned with beautiful flowers that glowed and glittered under the golden beams of the sun. So... This inspirational book is for those who love nature and gardening; and for those who enjoy listening to the beautiful songs of the birds. My garde... |
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119,27 |
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Arthur Lee Zeman: A Saga of a Native Born Iowan
ISBN: 9781508860150 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur Zeman was a third generation Iowan whose grandfather emigrated from Czechoslavakia in 1865. He was a hard working farmer who was constantly looking for ways to improve farm efficiency. Taking care of the soil and the environment was always a primary concern. He was a man ahead of his time technologically. This book is a saga not only of a man and his family, but also of a people who transformed America's heartland into one of the greatest "bread baskets" in the nation. This is a story about family, neighbors, and community in central Iowa who not only survived frigid blizzards in the...
Arthur Zeman was a third generation Iowan whose grandfather emigrated from Czechoslavakia in 1865. He was a hard working farmer who was constantly loo...
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40,26 |
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Cornbread Memories 2: Growing up in the Mississippi Delta
ISBN: 9781502359681 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his first book, CORNBREAD MEMORIES, Ron took us on a journey of what it was like to grow up in a more simple time. Through his memories and amazing story telling, we were able to relive our own happy childhood by remembering similar situations that may have happened to us. A native of Greenville, Ms., Ron continues that journey in CORNBREAD MEMORIES 2. He recalls stories of growing up in a large family, the struggles of a young boy trying to become a man, and friendships that last a lifetime. Ron also shares with us, more of his families treasured recipes. If you enjoyed his first book,...
In his first book, CORNBREAD MEMORIES, Ron took us on a journey of what it was like to grow up in a more simple time. Through his memories and amazing...
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68,79 |
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America's Conduct: Inner City Escort
ISBN: 9781508730675 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part family history, part memoir and part cultural history, America's Conduct: Inner City Escort provides a first person look at the lure, the promise and the betrayal of Los Angeles inner city gang life in the late 20th century. Larry Davis shares his journey as a testament to the deep human need for dignity and belonging, as a cautionary tale for today's inner city youth, and as profound proof of the power of the human spirit.
Part family history, part memoir and part cultural history, America's Conduct: Inner City Escort provides a first person look at the lure, the promise...
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56,45 |
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Lives of Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780674055810 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration is given individually to their rhetorical strategies and historical moment, what emerges is a fascinating collage of Robert S. Levine's elusive subject. The Lives of Frederick Douglass is revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and... Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relation... |
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161,85 |
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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
ISBN: 9781469624433 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the name "Laah Ceil." Together, they embarked on an astounding, sometimes scandalous journey across the United States and Canada, performing as American Indians for sectarian worshippers, theater audiences, and patent medicine seekers. Along the way, they used widespread notions of "Indianness" to disguise their...
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "O...
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156,72 |
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Hornbill's Daughter
ISBN: 9781507663592 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story of courage and faith and how a young Borneo native girl with a burning desire to better herself grows up in a village on the island of Borneo where she witnesses poverty, injustice and inequality in the treatment of women in a male dominant culture. An inspiring and heart warming book.
A true story of courage and faith and how a young Borneo native girl with a burning desire to better herself grows up in a village on the island of Bo...
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60,69 |
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Burdens From My Past: A Sharecropper's Son
ISBN: 9781508636236 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,21 |
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Full of Gold: Growing Up in Salinas Chinatown Living in Post War America
ISBN: 9781508807377 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blanche Chin Ah Tye looks back on her ninety-five years, giving us aninsightful journey from Salinas, California Chinatown to the mainstream of American culture. From the simple perspective of this one woman, wecome to understand how a whole people of foreign culture survived andeven thrived in America. Blanche's many stories & family photographsmake this a warm, personal history."
Blanche Chin Ah Tye looks back on her ninety-five years, giving us aninsightful journey from Salinas, California Chinatown to the mainstream of Americ...
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100,95 |
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A Chinese Immigrant's Success Story 1867-1954: C.Q.Yee Hop Achieves his American Dream
ISBN: 9781508945307 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The journey of C.Q. Yee Hop from the village of Gong Bui, Heong Shan County, Guangdong Province, China to the Hawaiian Islands where he established six of Hawaii's successful business companies.
The journey of C.Q. Yee Hop from the village of Gong Bui, Heong Shan County, Guangdong Province, China to the Hawaiian Islands where he established si...
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12 Years a Slave: The Narrative of Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781511573016 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup, born a freeman in New York. He lived the American dream, with a house and a loving family - a wife and two kids. Then one day he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the deep south. These are the true accounts of his twelve hard years as a slave. His extraordinary journey proves the resiliency of hope and the human spirit despite the most grueling and formidable of circumstances.
This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. This is the true story of Solomon Northup, born a freeman...
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40,43 |
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Life Lines: The Lanier Phillips Story
ISBN: 9781550815511 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African-American serviceman Lanier Phillips was just eighteen years old when he was rescued from a sinking warship off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942 - a turn of events that transformed his life and ignited a lasting passion for civil rights. The son of sharecroppers from the Deep South, and the great-grandson of slaves, Lanier knew only hatred for white people. As a child he was told never to look a white man in the face, for fear of a lynching. His experience with the villagers of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, taught him that racism can be overcome and that the first change must come from...
African-American serviceman Lanier Phillips was just eighteen years old when he was rescued from a sinking warship off the coast of Newfoundland in 19...
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73,15 |
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An Ever-Widening Screen: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781925138474 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Irish heritage. He grew up as a Catholic in a pre-Vatican II Church. His call was to a religious congregation from the late 1950s and to priesthood from the mid-1960s. For many years he worked in religious formation in his congregation and taught theology and Old Testaments Studies, as part of the Melbourne College of Divinity. But, in different ways throughout the years, there was always the cinema strand, reviewing, writing, seminars and heading...
We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Iri...
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192,49 |
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First We Eat: Growing Up in Val di Comino, Italy
ISBN: 9781927023914 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "On the farm, first you worked, then you had breakfast." Born to poor tenant farmers in rural Italy in 1950, Giuseppe Schiavo's mother, who already has ten children and is ill, gives her newborn baby away to her best friend to nurse. Carmela Cedrone and her husband Domenico, whose five children all died in childbirth, welcome Giuseppe with open arms. He happily grows up with his stepparents in an old stone farmhouse. When he turns ten, Giuseppe's birth parents suddenly reclaim him and immediately put him to work on their farm. Eventually, his birth father makes him quit school. In one day,...
"On the farm, first you worked, then you had breakfast." Born to poor tenant farmers in rural Italy in 1950, Giuseppe Schiavo's mother, who already ha...
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My Four Homes: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781630512132 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manisha Roy recounts stories from her life, gathered around each of her four "homes." The first two reflect her early life, visiting her grandparents in villages in what was then the eastern part of Bengal. She recalls the traditions, rituals, and mores of a well-to-do Indian family as she experienced them during her formative years. Her intelligence and curiosity set her on a path to academia, and she broke away, at great personal cost, thwarting the expectations of her family and culture and setting out to work, to love, and to see the world. Eventually she finds her own inner home and...
Manisha Roy recounts stories from her life, gathered around each of her four "homes." The first two reflect her early life, visiting her grandparents ...
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181,27 |
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Reb Eizek and the Healing Unconscious: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780692382868 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Reb Eizek and the Healing Unconscious: A Memoir" is the story of a deeply wounded young Jewish boy, raised in silence about the history of his own family and the Holocaust, who becomes a psychologist and through his work and for many years unbeknownst to himself is taken on an amazing life journey of self-repair and healing that traverses the world many times over. From his own experience Dr. Diller suggests that there exists within each of us a Healing Unconscious, an internal psychological function that can lead us towards our own unique healing journeys if we can only attend to its...
"Reb Eizek and the Healing Unconscious: A Memoir" is the story of a deeply wounded young Jewish boy, raised in silence about the history of his own fa...
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Appalachian Proud: Boy from the Appalachian coal camp
ISBN: 9781507797600 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Appalachian Proud," a novel of a boy named Charley who is the 8th son of 9 brothers and one sister, with her being the tenth child to be born to this couple, James William and Agnes Pearl Coots, a West Virginia coal miner family supporting their livelihood from the production of coal in the early years of the 1930's and beyond. Charley born may 27, 1945 and raised in small communities of coal camps through out southern Boone county West Virginia, with him having to walk great distances to school in the Appalachian mountain regions always testing his ability to overcome his trials and...
"Appalachian Proud," a novel of a boy named Charley who is the 8th son of 9 brothers and one sister, with her being the tenth child to be born to this...
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Coal Miners and Moon Shiners
ISBN: 9781508408895 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the life of West Virginia coal miner and moonshiner Edward Peter Burdiss, this volume transports readers to the early years of the coal mining industry, including the history of coal mining, children coal miners, mine wars, and life in the coal camps of the early 1900s. Edward Burdiss went to work in the coal mines of West Virginia at the age of eleven to help support his family. He became a moonshiner during prohibition for the same reason, and was considered the greatest rumrunner in the history of Raleigh County, WV. His story personifies the spirit and the struggle of coalminers...
Based on the life of West Virginia coal miner and moonshiner Edward Peter Burdiss, this volume transports readers to the early years of the coal minin...
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