Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General

Edward McKenney looks back to another era with entertaining stories from Savin Hill, an Irish Catholic neighborhood, in this entertaining and heartfelt memoir highlighting the period from 1969 to 1979.

Edward's father almost became a priest, but then he met an attractive strawberry blonde who became his wife and mother to their children.

As one of nine siblings, Edward stood out with his red hair, an enormous gap between his front teeth and horned-rim eyeglasses.

He relives the humorous and serious sides of receiving a Catholic school education during the seventies....

Edward McKenney looks back to another era with entertaining stories from Savin Hill, an Irish Catholic neighborhood, in this entertaining and heartfelt memoir highlighting the period from 1969 to 1979.

Edward's father almost became a priest, but then he met an attractive strawberry blonde who became his wife and mother to their children.

As one of nine siblings, Edward stood out with his red hair, an enormous gap between his front teeth and horned-rim eyeglasses.

He relives the humorous and serious sides of receiving a Catholic school education during the seventies....

In 1923, Ulysses Colen built a four-room house at 944 Pennington Road in rural Warren, Arkansas. It was a surprise for his wife, Eddie, and would eventually be filled to the bursting point with eleven children.

Dr. John N. Colen was the baby of the Colen family. During his last years at home, his parents shared fascinating pieces of their past with him. Colen was so inspired by their sacrifices that he decided to chronicle their history in 944 Pennington Road.

Much of the book is set against a backdrop of great racial turmoil and political change during the 1940s to...

Following in his brother's footsteps, Rose Catalano's father decides to leave an Italy that has been ravaged by the war and try his fortunes in the New World. They face the challenges of making their way in a strange land, with no knowledge of English, with strange new foods, customs, holidays, and where laws are formidable. Yet gradually, the family adjusts to life in Toronto. Rose's parents find jobs and eventually buy a home, bettering themselves in their chosen country as have immigrants before them.

Against her father's wishes and traditional Italian family values, Rose finds...

Following in his brother's footsteps, Rose Catalano's father decides to leave an Italy that has been ravaged by the war and try his fortunes in the New World. They face the challenges of making their way in a strange land, with no knowledge of English, with strange new foods, customs, holidays, and where laws are formidable. Yet gradually, the family adjusts to life in Toronto. Rose's parents find jobs and eventually buy a home, bettering themselves in their chosen country as have immigrants before them.

Against her father's wishes and traditional Italian family values, Rose finds...

Freedom without Justice is a compelling story of ex-inmate Chol Soo Lee's wrongful incarceration and the actions he took to survive years in prison, while political activists fought to win his retrial and freedom. It is at once a captivating chronicle of his life, a trenchant description of how prisons produce the very behaviors they purport to punish and prevent, and a poignant remembrance of an important chapter in Asian American history following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act.

At the age of twelve, Chol Soo immigrated to the United States from South Korea to reunite...

Ben Howard lived through almost the entirety of the twentieth century. He was born the son of a slave and sharecropper in 1902. He died in 1994. Now, his daughter Dorothy Okeefe shares her story and the legacy of courage and conviction her parents left her. Under the Chinaberry Tree is an amazing testament to one family's unbreakable bonds of love and loyalty.

Ben Howard was a black man in the Jim Crow South, which was eating itself up with hatred and bigotry. Many would have decided to keep their heads down and not stand out, but Ben took a huge risk the second he...