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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
ISBN: 9781501147296 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expose" (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored boy and had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till, chose to display her son's...
A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expose" (...
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69,32 |
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A Pearl from Ashes
ISBN: 9780987583949 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,38 |
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
ISBN: 9781510724129 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial...
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame ...
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96,30 |
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Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith
ISBN: 9781611478204 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. The narrative follows him as an immigrant boy in San Antonio, Texas, who finds religion, goes to segregated schools, participates in the first major school boycott of the modern era in Texas, goes to Viet Nam where he heads an emergency room in the Mekong Delta, and then to college where he becomes involved in the Chicano Movement. Throughout this time he juggles, struggles, and comes to terms with the religious principles that provide him the foundation for his...
This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. The narrative follows ...
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220,40 |
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White Birch, Red Hawthorn: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781517901325 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
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68,52 |
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Bridges People Built
ISBN: 9781530353736 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortly before World War II young Michael Laumann helps his friend Simon and family to escape from Nazi Germany as stowaways. Simon's mother is Jewish, and the threat against the Jews sees them leave shortly before the borders are closed. Michael and his parents survive the terrors of war, famine and deprivation. At the end of the war Michael's mother is raped by a French soldier, which results in the birth of Michael's half-sister Martine. Simon, who has gone to Canada, reconnects with Michael after the war, and he supports Michael in his decision to leave Germany. The book describes...
Shortly before World War II young Michael Laumann helps his friend Simon and family to escape from Nazi Germany as stowaways. Simon's mother is Jewish...
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48,55 |
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A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781532018053 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century tells the threefold story of a boy who grew up in Bihar, India, attended college and worked as a civil servant in Pakistan, and then traveled abroad through his years working for the International Center of Public Enterprises and the United Nations. Chronicling his early life in rural and small town India, Ahmed then recalls his life as a college student and civil servant in Pakistan. It was a time of intensifying communal conflicts set within the backdrop of major historical events,... A Bridge with Three Spans: An Indian Muslim Boy Lives through Major Events of the Twentieth Century tells the threefold story of a boy who grew up ... |
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96,15 |
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A Piece of Valiant Dust: An Essay in Living
ISBN: 9781540414731 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J. A. Hijiya hasn't led a life of adventure, suffered great tragedy, or pulled himself up by his own bootstraps to forge a corporate empire. His is a quieter life-with its own ups and downs, to be sure-but no more than you'd expect in a -normal- life. It's in life's ordinariness that Hijiya finds beauty, meaning, and no small measure of humor. Hijiya jumps from topic to topic in a collection of eclectic essay memoirs, exploring the consequences of childhood polio with the same attention to detail and humor he brings to discussing sibling rivalry, a one-time obsession with tanning,... J. A. Hijiya hasn't led a life of adventure, suffered great tragedy, or pulled himself up by his own bootstraps to forge a corporate empire. His is... |
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48,55 |
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Footsteps From Judea: My Journey in Krav Maga and Life
ISBN: 9781541379961 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Footsteps from Judea -My steps begin in Judea, my home, my ancestral home. My Krav Maga travels take me around the world but I always return home to Judea, to Israel. This book records my thoughts and observations as I travel both physically and spiritually. The lessons are universal and as such nearly each entry is someone's favorite as he feels it was written specifically for him and for his situation. My hope is that my words will help others along their own personal journeys through time and space.- Moshe Katz is a high ranking Krav Maga instructor and founder of Israeli Krav...
Footsteps from Judea -My steps begin in Judea, my home, my ancestral home. My Krav Maga travels take me around the world but I always return home to J...
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64,66 |
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Precious Memories
ISBN: 9781544242545 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book showcases the life experiences of Marvin Lee Parmer. From his childhood in rural Arkansas to a career in construction in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Parmer's life story spans almost nine decades and relates the joys of seeing God at work in his daily life. After losing his mother, Parmer was reared by Mom and Pop, his paternal grandparents. His stories of a close, nurturing family show clearly that it takes a family to raise a child, not a village. His insights into the struggle for daily existence during the Great Depression and World War II weave a tapestry of safety and direction...
This book showcases the life experiences of Marvin Lee Parmer. From his childhood in rural Arkansas to a career in construction in Oklahoma City, Okla...
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40,43 |
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Gold from the Well: The inspiring true account of a Haitian refugee
ISBN: 9781544641744 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Gold from the Well, - reveals the life of Jocelyn -Josh- Apo, a Haitian refugee whose hard work, faith and unbreakable spirit helped him rise from abject poverty, hopelessness, and despair to the successful American citizen and community leader he is today. The telling alternates between Josh's personal accounts and a narrative storyline; readers are entranced by the book's authenticity. Born into rural Haiti's peasant class, Josh's childhood tribulations and loving mother shaped him into a man of great strength. In October 1980, when he was 20, Josh and 61 fellow Haitians survived a 17-day...
-Gold from the Well, - reveals the life of Jocelyn -Josh- Apo, a Haitian refugee whose hard work, faith and unbreakable spirit helped him rise from ab...
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60,69 |
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Walking in the Woods: A Metis Memoir
ISBN: 9781927366714 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near the Metis settlement of Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. His father purchased furs from local First Nations and Metis trappers and, with arduous work, began a family fur trading business that survives to this day. When Belcourt left home at 15 to become a labourer in coal mines and sawmills, his father told him to save his money so he could work for himself. Over the next three decades, Belcourt began a...
An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Bel...
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115,70 |
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Back in the Time: Medicine, Education and Life in the Isolation of Western North Carolina's Spring Creek
ISBN: 9781542858557 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,47 |
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The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938): A Struggle Between Art and Politics
ISBN: 9781845197865 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work reveals problems stemming from the fact that half of his writing was published posthumously under editorship of doubtful accuracy. The matter is further complicated in that his non-poetic work has been neglected in favour of his verse. The Poetic and Real Worlds of Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) reviews the evidence-literary and historical-and assesses the often conflicting body of opinion his work has generated....
Now available in paperback The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatis...
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Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
ISBN: 9781477313718 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Originally published in 1947 by the Macmillan Company.-
-Originally published in 1947 by the Macmillan Company.-
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73,42 |
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The Repatriate: Love, Basketball, and the KGB
ISBN: 9781542613613 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,72 |
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Like Shade, People Also Pass: A Trentini Son Remembers
ISBN: 9781544004549 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,53 |
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Real Cowboys: Grand Canyon to Mexico
ISBN: 9780989867665 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Howdy, Here is forty-some years gathering of my cowboy stories compiled in a book. It is illustrated by the famous Texas artist Mike Capron with a foreword by Fred Fellows. A paperback with 240 pages, 70-some thousand words, 91 pictures including old photographs and original Capron sketches. Great book for anyone who likes to read about the western lifestyle.
Howdy, Here is forty-some years gathering of my cowboy stories compiled in a book. It is illustrated by the famous Texas artist Mike Capron with a for...
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93,02 |
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My Childhood Inspirations The Series: Little Girl Remembers
ISBN: 9780996968416 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,63 |
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Famous Nathan
ISBN: 9781250074553 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,44 |
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