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A Hard Row To Hoe: The Story That Almost Wasn't Told
ISBN: 9781516998388 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Hard Row to Hoe, The Story That Almost Wasn't Told is the personal reflection of C.M. Hindman on his life growing up during the depression and his perseverance to rise above the challenges, and create a successful life for himself and his family. C.M. weaves his life story through the lens of his years as a young boy amid the struggles of a large family moving from farm to farm to scratch out a living, then carries us with him on his journey through his adult years as he earned success as an entrepreneur and skilled craftsman. His transparency, story telling and humor draw us in as he...
A Hard Row to Hoe, The Story That Almost Wasn't Told is the personal reflection of C.M. Hindman on his life growing up during the depression and his p...
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Wilson's Web
ISBN: 9781517397814 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a reprint of Wilson Guertin's web site. It was created to provide a more durable copy of the website data which may be lost in the electronic miasma. These printed copies may be subject to destruction by mold and fire, but some of them should prove retrievable longer than their counterparts on the internet. This site also provides additional personal data about the author's pseudonym character Jonathan P. Slow. You will have more interest in your own family biography, but now you can see a demonstration of a way to preserve the material in your own family website. You may be...
This book is a reprint of Wilson Guertin's web site. It was created to provide a more durable copy of the website data which may be lost in the electr...
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30,75 |
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When Africa Awakes: The Inside Story of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World
ISBN: 9781937306274 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virgin Islands-born, Harlem-based, Hubert H. Harrison's "When Africa Awakes: The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World" is a collection of over fifty articles that detail his pioneering theoretical, educational, and organizational role in the founding and development of the militant, World War I era "New Negro Movement." Harrison was a brilliant, class and race conscious, writer, educator, orator, editor, book reviewer, political activist, and radical internationalist who was described by J. A. Rogers as "perhaps the foremost Aframerican intellect...
Virgin Islands-born, Harlem-based, Hubert H. Harrison's "When Africa Awakes: The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the...
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64,74 |
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Risking and Resisting: Discovering the Untold Story of My Family's Fight for Freedom in World War II
ISBN: 9783000507496 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It all began with a letter from a stranger. A single message from across the Atlantic launched a journey of discovery to an unknown chapter of Marie Le Febvre's family's past-a chapter filled with extraordinary courage and unexpected connections. Marie's journey uncovered a heritage of risking and resisting during World War II, and forged in her a new understanding of freedom.
It all began with a letter from a stranger. A single message from across the Atlantic launched a journey of discovery to an unknown chapter of Marie L...
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Touching Lives: Remarkable People and Places in the Western Algarve
ISBN: 9780993438103 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is a unique insight into life in the western Algarve. In the course of writing articles for a community magazine, Lena Strang has been privileged to speak to local people from all walks of life - from fishermen, farmers and market stallholders to artists, musicians and athletes to name but a few. She has been able to talk to people who have lived there all their lives and others who have made it their home. The rich history of the region fascinates her. She has been able to piece together the intriguing stories behind abandoned houses and researched places of interest. Time spent...
The book is a unique insight into life in the western Algarve. In the course of writing articles for a community magazine, Lena Strang has been privil...
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133,53 |
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Once Upon a Time in Saskatchewan: Memories of a Very Canadian Family
ISBN: 9781514624012 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The memories of the Chow-Feica family tell the story of Canada from the turn of the 20th century. These are the memories of a mixed-race family growing up in the 1900s in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, born to immigrants from China and Romania and destined to experience the racism, opportunity, poverty, heartbreak and hard-won acceptance that so many immigrant Canadian families have experienced. Charles Chow and Mary Feica were a mixed-race couple before anyone had even coined such a term, and would go on from that first giant step outside of societal norms to create a family unafraid to be...
The memories of the Chow-Feica family tell the story of Canada from the turn of the 20th century. These are the memories of a mixed-race family growin...
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Growing up Brooklyn: Iconic Things Of Our Time 1950-80s
ISBN: 9781512118186 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In which neighborhood in Brooklyn did you grow up? Do you yearn for the good old days? This series of neighborhood books is the closest you'll get to reliving the past-or, if you're not from Brooklyn, experiencing the fun, the excitement and the tragedies, right from the memories of the kids and the parents who lived there during the fascinating middle of the twentieth century. These books walk you through the various neighborhoods in classic 1950s through 1980s Brooklyn, detailing the iconic things of our time. From the doctors who delivered us to the schools from which we graduated, from...
In which neighborhood in Brooklyn did you grow up? Do you yearn for the good old days? This series of neighborhood books is the closest you'll get to ...
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88,98 |
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Follow My Dust
ISBN: 9781925416107 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of Arthur Upfield as told to Jessica Hawke with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Here is Arthur Upfield's own story, the author of those remarkable murder mysteries set in odd corners of Australia and featuring the Aboriginal sleuth named 'Bony'. A detailed dossier compiled with the cheerful candour of the subject himself. An Englishman by birth, Arthur Upfield tried his luck in Australia. After a short spell as a waiter in Adelaide, Upfield felt drawn towards the Interior where he became a boundary-rider, offside-driver, cattle-drover, opal-gouger,...
A biography of Arthur Upfield as told to Jessica Hawke with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Here is Arthur Upfield's own st...
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99,23 |
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The District: Growing Up in Little Italy
ISBN: 9780994881304 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a story that begins just before her birth in 1928, Rose Grieco's memoir is an intimate and finely detailed portrait of her beloved neighbourhood and the family, friends and neighbours she grew up with. In this respect, it's also a universal story, familiar to anyone whose parents or grandparents immigrated to a new land and made it all the richer with the customs, recipes and traditions they brought with them. Toronto' s fashionable Little Italy remains one of Canada's most renowned Italian-Canadian communities. Rose's lyrical writing style, along with dozens of evocative photos, brings... In a story that begins just before her birth in 1928, Rose Grieco's memoir is an intimate and finely detailed portrait of her beloved neighbourhood... |
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Under Minnesota Skies: John and Dorothy Hondl Family History and Farm Memories
ISBN: 9781519101600 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under Minnesota Skies is a lively telling of stories from several generations and a memoir of three daughters growing up on a farm near Owatonna, Minnesota in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Inspired by their father's love for the 394-acre farm that has been in the family for more than a century, the authors search for their immigrant ancestors to gain greater understanding of their own family traditions, foods and work ethic. Are they Czech or German? Who influenced the family to change from dairy to beef cattle? Does their father really need boys to help run the farm? Answers emerge as the family...
Under Minnesota Skies is a lively telling of stories from several generations and a memoir of three daughters growing up on a farm near Owatonna, Minn...
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60,69 |
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Sreemanta Sankaradeva: Biography of 15th Century Assamese Poet, Philosopher, Artist, Playwright and Religious Renaissance Man
ISBN: 9781514642238 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Three Years in Europe: or, Places I have Seen and People I have Met. With a Memoir of the Author
ISBN: 9781515009429 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,67 |
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Europa's Child
ISBN: 9781518693731 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Power to defeat the Leviathan ... "We were an experiment. And now our usefulness is over. We are alone in the laboratory. But before the lights are turned off and we fall into dust and mold, they are using the very last energy we have to fight their wars, and guide their stealth and drones to make all the world become like us. An Experiment. "But I believe they will lose because they cannot build anything; they who make such skyscrapers and Nano-technological wonders, have missed out on the fundamental building block of all life. There is no heart inside their creations. No Soul. No love....
The Power to defeat the Leviathan ... "We were an experiment. And now our usefulness is over. We are alone in the laboratory. But before the lights ar...
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We All Leak Eventually
ISBN: 9781518732362 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How much garlic is too much? Is the Roman collar actually part of the priest's skin? Does morphine really make you invisible? These and other similarly weighty subjects are addressed in a Dave Barry manner. Follow the life of a "Pre-Boomer" growing up in a small town within a tight loving family as he humorously revisits his childhood memories and looks on the travails of growing older. Interspersed with the hilarious tales are sensitive and perceptive looks at things as different as the impact of 40 years of communism on society, to family Christmas rituals.
How much garlic is too much? Is the Roman collar actually part of the priest's skin? Does morphine really make you invisible? These and other similarl...
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Lilias Rider Haggard: Countrywoman
ISBN: 9781909796188 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lilias Rider Haggard, daughter of prolific author H. Rider Haggard, grew up in the shadow of her well-known father but emerged as an author in her own right, with a number of published books and regular columns in both the local press and national publications. She had had the privilege of sharing in some of her father's exotic travels but also shared her generations tragic experiences of the First World War. Victoria Manthorpe brings together the many strands of her life in this first biography.
Lilias Rider Haggard, daughter of prolific author H. Rider Haggard, grew up in the shadow of her well-known father but emerged as an author in her own...
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Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit
ISBN: 9781943665044 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader. Randolph's story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with his entire plantation cohort. A lawsuit launched by Randolph against his former master's estate left legal documents that corroborate his autobiographies. Randolph's writings give us a window into a different experience of slavery and freedom than other narratives currently available and will be of interest...
This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black ab...
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Volunteers of the Lifeboat Service
ISBN: 9780993443206 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Book is a compelling read for anyone interested in the Lifeboat Service and rescue at sea. The title arises from my time as a volunteer crew member and coxswain in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and considers the changes in both the human attributes and technical innovations from the inception of the lifeboat institution in the nineteenth century through to the 21st century. Importantly, it focuses on the people of the lifeboat service through examples of rescues that introduce the human aspects along with the voluntary nature of the crews and fund-raisers. This book is...
This Book is a compelling read for anyone interested in the Lifeboat Service and rescue at sea. The title arises from my time as a volunteer crew memb...
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Erna's Story: A Journey of God's Protection
ISBN: 9781493718108 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Girl from Silicon Valley
ISBN: 9781515359548 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hi my name is gloria jean Bodenmuller, i am an author and speaker, born and raised in what is now Silicon Valley. i have written my memoirs about Silicon Valley when it was known as Santa Clara Valley. i believe this is applicable for today, as Silicon Valley is world renowned. Therefore, my hope is to tell people throughout the world and show them through pictures and story, what it was like back in the day."
Hi my name is gloria jean Bodenmuller, i am an author and speaker, born and raised in what is now Silicon Valley. i have written my memoirs about Sili...
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Learning Not To Run Away
ISBN: 9781517158149 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EVER WONDER what it's like in different cultures? The diversity is greater than one's imagination can consume. We helped with construction for African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina; helped Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma; repaired a school in Sierra Leon, in West Africa. Our hardest adventure was in Russia. In Kirov, Russia, Satka provided us a room on our nine visits there. We made many friends. They regarded us as Grandma and Grandpa. We survived the long ques for food and supplies. The weather was extremely cold. The politics were the harshest. Our friends and ourselves were under...
EVER WONDER what it's like in different cultures? The diversity is greater than one's imagination can consume. We helped with construction for African...
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