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  • Down on Mahans Creek

    A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood

    Serier serie Ozarks Studies
    In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were deeply affected by the Civil War, and the arrival of the railroad and the timber boom in the 1890s ... Læs mere

    319,99 kr.

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  • The Book of Separation

    A Memoir

    af Tova Mirvis ...
    The memoir of a woman leaving behind her faith and her marriage to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a world unknown to her.A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Best Book Pick by O, The Oprah Magazine; Jewish Week; Real Simple"An intimate tale of departure . . . [Mirvis] movingly conveys the heartache that accompanies the abandonment of one way of life in search of ... ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Maryland

    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Læs mere

    7,94 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Looking for Palestine

    Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family

    af Najla Said ...
    A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity.The daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up in New York City, confused and conflicted about her cultural background and identity. Said knew that her parents identified deeply with their ... Læs mere

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  • Barack Obama

    The Making of the Man

    In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the ... Læs mere

    99,88 kr.

  • Bus Stop

    A Memoir

    In Bus Stop, Ruby Fay Burford, a Black domestic worker employed in the homes of wealthy white Texas families, shares her amazing life story. She vividly recounts her early family life as an African American woman growing up in rural East Texas, one of the more staunchly segregated areas of the US. She begins her story with the accidental meeting at a bus stop of the man she would marry, Frank ... Læs mere

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  • Orangutan

    A Memoir

    Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism—from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts—to tell the harrowing truth about the modern Irish immigrant experience.Orangutan is the story of a generation of young ... Læs mere

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  • The Arab of the Future 2

    A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir

    af Riad Sattouf ...
    Serier Bog 2 - The Arab of the Future
    The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf’s internationally acclaimed #1 French bestseller, which was hailed by The New York Times as “a disquieting yet essential read.”In The Arab of the Future: Volume 1, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood as his family shuttles back and forth between France and the Middle East. In Libya and Syria, young Riad is exposed to ... Læs mere

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  • On Jordan's Stormy Banks

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in Georgia

    Redigeret af Andrew Waters ...
    During the Great Depression, the Federal Writers’ Project engaged jobless writers and researchers to interview former slaves about their experiences in bondage. Most of the interviewees were by then in their eighties and nineties, and their memories were soon to be lost to history. The effort was a huge success, eventually encompassing more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Goddess Pose

    The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

    When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. In The Goddess Pose, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg traces the life of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West and in so doing paints a ... Læs mere

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  • The Road from Harbour Hill

    A Journey of Dreams

    af Jim Hayes ...
    On Harbour Hill, in the picturesque seaside town of Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland, where four roads converged together, Jim Hayess journey of dreams began.Hayes begins by tracing his experiences as boy growing up in Ireland in the late 1940s, where he fished for mackerel at Lynchs Quay, witnessed one of the last human flights to freedom from post war-torn Europe, and played ball in the street. But after ... Læs mere

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  • Boredom is Anti-Life: 250 Anecdotes and Stories

    af David Bruce ...
    This is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes:• Actors often know their own limitations. Early in his career, E.A. Southern tried to act the roles of tragic heroes but discovered that he was not very good at them and so performed other kinds of roles on the stage. He once told theatrical critic John Rankin Towse about a conversation that he had had with fellow actor Edwin Booth: "We ... Læs mere

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