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Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir
ISBN: 9781615992348 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Love Imagined" is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.
Finalist - 27th annual Minnesota Book Awards (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction) "Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota life set within the backdrop of racial segregation, the Cold War, the sexual revolution while navigating it all through the lens of her multi-layered identities. A true demonstration of the power of an... "Love Imagined" is an American woman's unique struggle for identity. Finalist - 27th annual Minnesota Book Awards (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction) |
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115,42 |
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Our Child's Roots
ISBN: 9781478749622 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Give your children their genealogy roots in this little fill-in book which will help them learn their family history. This book will give you idea's of questions to ask about your family history: The origin of your family names-Health histories-War services-Work history-Schooling-Family stories-a page for pictures and a Family Tree Chart which will cover 100 years of genealogy history of your Child's ancestry when filled in. Bring the book out when relatives are visiting or you go to visit them. If they have a photo album or framed pictures use your phone camera and click away. Process your...
Give your children their genealogy roots in this little fill-in book which will help them learn their family history. This book will give you idea's o...
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51,58 |
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The Williamson Family: From Wales to America
ISBN: 9781512356830 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This famous and interesting surname, with a number of entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography" and over twenty-eight Coats of Arms, is a patronymic of William. William is derived the Norman form of an Old French personal name composed of the Germanic elements "wil," will, desire, and "helm," helmet, protection. The personal name was introduced into England at the time of the Conquest of 1066, and within a very short time it became the most popular given name in England, mainly no doubt in honor of the Conqueror himself. The surname was first recorded in the 1279 Hundred Rolls of...
This famous and interesting surname, with a number of entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography" and over twenty-eight Coats of Arms, is a patr...
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262,96 |
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
ISBN: 9780822318361 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countering the misconception that racial discrimination has not existed in Puerto Rico, this book shows that racial prejudice has had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. It is of interest to specialists in Caribbean studies, Puerto Rican history, and Latin America studies, and to scholars investigating racism and discrimination.
Countering the misconception that racial discrimination has not existed in Puerto Rico, this book shows that racial prejudice has had an insidious eff...
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386,93 |
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Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin, But the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity
ISBN: 9780822319757 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do adult children of interracial parents where one parent is Jewish and one is Black think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Gibel Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives to explore the possibilities and meanings that arise when Black and Jewish identities merge. As she asks what it means to be Black, Jewish, and interracial, Gibel Azoulay challenges deeply ingrained assumptions about identity...
How do adult children of interracial parents where one parent is Jewish and one is Black think about personal identity? This question is at the heart ...
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460,38 |
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Survival Lessons
ISBN: 9781498437608 / Angielski / Miękka / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nothing is more moving as a tribute than one dedicated to one's family lineage and the valuable wisdom from ancestors. Author William J. Long saw the merit as well in exploring his family tree, especially after his cousin Shelvia requested to know more of their family history. His efforts established this personal family memoir, Survival Lessons, which encompasses life lessons from their family's lineage in the small town of Ash North Carolina. Divided into two parts, each focuses on the author and Shelvia's individual families, and how their lives were impacted by history, family trials and...
Nothing is more moving as a tribute than one dedicated to one's family lineage and the valuable wisdom from ancestors. Author William J. Long saw the ...
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127,28 |
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Self Published: Memoir of an English Girlhood 1945-1965
ISBN: 9781507661390 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the uplifting story of the trials and tribulations of being brought up in London, England after World War II.
This is the uplifting story of the trials and tribulations of being brought up in London, England after World War II.
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22,18 |
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Crossing The Wall - A Life On Both Sides
ISBN: 9781512179125 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book follows the life of Ms. Hui Zhi Song, a Chinese girl born into wealth and privilege, only to see her life turned upside down during Mao's Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards persecuted her, Her mother exploited her. Bereft of love and full of grief, the thirty-four-year-old slipped out of communist China -crossing the wall- to start a new life in a promised land. Then her troubles began on this side of the wall. Against a background of sadness and loneliness, Hui Zhi tells a story of relentless determination and stubborn hope to reach a good life in North America.
This book follows the life of Ms. Hui Zhi Song, a Chinese girl born into wealth and privilege, only to see her life turned upside down during Mao's Cu...
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44,47 |
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Potosi - That's Where I'm From!: Growing up in Potosi, Missouri
ISBN: 9781512284461 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FULL COLOR EDITION: (SIZE: 8.5" X 8.5") Here, I would like to tell a story - of a town that cradled me and watched me grow through good times and bad - in joy and in sadness - through disaster and through delight. There were hard-working people in the community I called home. We had a school undergirded with strong moral values and teachers who upheld often even Biblical principles and believed in honesty, forgiveness and integrity for the most part. Most of us knew that if we got into trouble at school, we were surely going to face trouble at home Courtesy and respecting others were...
FULL COLOR EDITION: (SIZE: 8.5" X 8.5") Here, I would like to tell a story - of a town that cradled me and watched me grow through good times and bad ...
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210,40 |
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Potosi - That's Where I'm From!: Growing Up in Potosi, Missouri
ISBN: 9781512379556 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FULL COLOR EDiTION (SIZE: 6" X 9") Here, I would like to tell a story - of a town that cradled me and watched me grow through good times and bad - in joy and in sadness - through disaster and through delight. There were hard-working people in the community I called home. We had a school undergirded with strong moral values and teachers who upheld often even Biblical principles and believed in honesty, forgiveness and integrity for the most part. Most of us knew that if we got into trouble at school, we were surely going to face trouble at home Courtesy and respecting others were standards of...
FULL COLOR EDiTION (SIZE: 6" X 9") Here, I would like to tell a story - of a town that cradled me and watched me grow through good times and bad - in ...
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210,40 |
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Potosi - That's Where I'm From!: Growing Up in Potosi, Missouri
ISBN: 9781512379839 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BLACK & WHITE EDITION (SIZE: 6" x 9") Here, I would like to tell a story - of a town that cradled me and watched me grow through good times and bad - in joy and in sadness - through disaster and through delight. There were hard-working people in the community I called home. We had a school undergirded with strong moral values and teachers who upheld often even Biblical principles and believed in honesty, forgiveness and integrity for the most part. Most of us knew that if we got into trouble at school, we were surely going to face trouble at home Courtesy and respecting others were standards...
BLACK & WHITE EDITION (SIZE: 6" x 9") Here, I would like to tell a story - of a town that cradled me and watched me grow through good times and bad - ...
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60,69 |
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The Storks Did Not Return: Retracing a Journey from Siberia to South Africa
ISBN: 9781514202135 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The arrival of storks had heralded spring in Wiktorowka ever since the village was founded. When they arrived in 1940, it was to a scene of total destruction, as all the villagers had been loaded onto cattle trucks and displaced hundreds of kilometres to the icy gulags of Siberia, never to return to their homes in north-western Ukraine. From one camp in Siberia, a twelve year old boy started an epic journey across Europe, Asia and Africa, defying almost impossible odds to survive as one of five hundred orphans ultimately shipped to South Africa to start a new life. For seventy five years,...
The arrival of storks had heralded spring in Wiktorowka ever since the village was founded. When they arrived in 1940, it was to a scene of total dest...
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46,74 |
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A Time to Keep: Growing Up in the Ozarks, 1940-1952
ISBN: 9780692468456 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A memoir of farm life in the Missouri Ozarks during the middle part of the twentieth century.
A memoir of farm life in the Missouri Ozarks during the middle part of the twentieth century.
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60,49 |
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Post-Ghetto: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780520289086 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, the contributing authors to "Post-Ghetto" address these questions by pointing out robust signs of hope for the area's residents--an increase in corporate retail investment, a decrease in homicides, a proliferation of nonprofit service providers, a paradigm shift in violence- and gang-prevention programs, and progress toward a strengthened, more racially integrated labor movement. By charting the connections between public policy and the health...
Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, ...
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347,74 |
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Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man
ISBN: 9780732299842 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted them and they daily faced violence, danger and starvation. After almost four months, they arrived in at refugee camps in Kenya - of the group he'd set out with, only five had survived. All alone in the world and desperate to find his family, Abdi couldn't stay in Kenya,...
A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and...
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99,23 |
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Others Lord: A Snapshot of the Life and Legacy of Lorine C. McLeod
ISBN: 9780990590439 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spencer L. Duffy offers readers an intimate portrait of Lorine C. McLeod, the distinguished humanitarian. Her endless devotion to helping others primarily through the United Order of the Tents is legendary. In the first biography of McLeod, Duffy organizes a generous overview showing how McLeod believes that the best way to serve God is by helping others. Now in the autumn of her life, she is President Emeritus of her local chapter of the United Order of the Tents. Her biography is a fitting testament to their theme of doing everything to help the sick and console the bereaved, and to instill...
Spencer L. Duffy offers readers an intimate portrait of Lorine C. McLeod, the distinguished humanitarian. Her endless devotion to helping others prima...
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157,09 |
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Hripsime
ISBN: 9781511855457 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography, derived from Hripsime's memoir, revolves around 1975 Beirut. Trapped in her fourth-floor flat alone, she relives her story as Hripsime's beloved city crumbles around her. Born to Christian Armenian parents in Central Turkey, she loses her entire family very young during the Armenian Deportation of 1915. During WWI, the Ottoman Turks herd over one million and a half or more Armenians into the desert. Most died a grueling death, either slaughtered or of starvation, thirst or diseases. Hripsime, in her teens, is one of only a handful that escapes the massacre of massacres in...
This biography, derived from Hripsime's memoir, revolves around 1975 Beirut. Trapped in her fourth-floor flat alone, she relives her story as Hripsime...
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63,89 |
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Get New Guns: : Shoot Straight
ISBN: 9781512189261 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,92 |
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Even the Crazy Man Wept: Reflections Following the War in Cambodia
ISBN: 9781898650539 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book challenges the reader to see, in response to the genocide in Cambodia and its aftermath, compassion, sadness, love and righteous anger expressed by a remarkable man who shared his life with the poor during this time. The events and names in this book are real. For over 30 years Bob, a Jesuit Brother, has committed his life to living among the poor of Cambodia. He has been with them during their plight as refugees in camps on the Thai - Cambodian border. He has lived and 'walked' with them on the fearful return into their war-ravaged homeland. He has seen and experienced...
This unique book challenges the reader to see, in response to the genocide in Cambodia and its aftermath, compassion, sadness, love and righteous ange...
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40,43 |
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Roberta's Boys: Four Pitts Brothers of Macon, GA
ISBN: 9780996288309 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the inspiring life-stories of four great African-American men (Dr. Willis N. Pitts, Robert B. Pitts, Dr. Raymond J. Pitts and Dr. Nathan A. Pitts), their wives, and their children. It explores how they recovered from childhood's tragic losses to succeed as accomplished professionals, despite the discrimination of the Jim Crow South, and how they contributed to the nation during the Civil Rights Era. They were four brothers, born in the early years of the 20th century to an educated and ambitious African-American couple of Macon, Georgia. Their parents, part of the emerging... This book tells the inspiring life-stories of four great African-American men (Dr. Willis N. Pitts, Robert B. Pitts, Dr. Raymond J. Pitts and Dr. N... |
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116,32 |
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