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Charlotte Publishing Coming From Cumberland
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Southern Domestic Girl To City A Memoir
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Random House USA Inc Working
Book Synopsis“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses'' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence
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Random House USA Inc What My Bones Know
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Random House USA Inc The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, VULTURE, PEOPLE, BOSTON GLOBE, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, & MORE “Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism… In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history.”—New York Times Book Review For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”: the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit “the secrets,” Rojas Contreras’ mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water.This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to “the secrets.”In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono’s remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often amusing guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe “the secrets” are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse.Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.
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Random House USA Inc Stay True
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu“This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.” —Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars RoomIn the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken hav
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iUniverse The Unauthorized Autobiography of Micah Pearson Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sheep
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iUniverse Life In Limbo Waiting for a Heart Transplant
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iUniverse Women Emerging Courageous
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iUniverse Black and Catholic in Omaha A Case of Double Jeopardy The First Fifty Years of St Benedict the Moor Parish
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iUniverse Full Circle From Addiction to Affection
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iUniverse DEFEATING BREAST CANCER A Physicians Story of Healing Martial Arts and Life
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iUniverse Seeds Of The Willow The Story of An Oriental StudentImmigrant in The United States
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iUniverse In the Wake of the Frontier A True Account of Living in Alaskan Isolation
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iUniverse Running from Coyote A White Family among the Navajo
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iUniverse Just My Luck A Memoir From a Habitual Nonconformist
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iUniverse BlueCollar Wings Remembering Thirty Years of Private Flying
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iUniverse Your Name Is Edith A Mother and Daughter Love Story
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iUniverse Aspergers If You Only Knew A Familys Struggle with Aspergers Syndrome
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iUniverse The Unauthorized Autobiography of Micah Pearson Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sheep
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iUniverse Full Circle From Addiction to Affection
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iUniverse Seeds of the Willow The Story of an Oriental StudentImmigrant in the United States
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iUniverse In the Wake of the Frontier A True Account of Living in Alaskan Isolation
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iUniverse Just My Luck A Memoir from a Habitual NonConformist
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iUniverse Your Name Is Edith A Mother and Daughter Love Story
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iUniverse Women Emerging Courageous
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iUniverse BlueCollar Wings Remembering Thirty Years of Private Flying
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Beck Thompson Chasing Normal
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Duckworth Books Vet at the End of the Earth
Book SynopsisHugely entertaining and affectionate, Jonathan Hollins's tales are full of wonderful creatures and steeped in the unique local history, cultures and peoples of the South Atlantic islands, far removed from the hustle of continental life.Trade Review'Delightful. This warm-hearted book makes you full of admiration for Hollins's spirit of adventure, and for his commitment to the animals he cares for' Daily Mail'There is much to love, with each chapter a vignette of island life… all against a backdrop of spectacular remoteness' Daily Telegraph'An amusing account of being a vet in the most remote settlements in the world... The author's bonhomie makes [for] an engaging read' Financial Times'A delightful, fascinating and entertaining book, ideal for anyone with a passion for the wild and natural world, and who dreams of escapism, adventure and challenge' Dr Hilary Jones, MBE'Entertaining… [Hollins] writes with wit' Daily Express‘A Great Veterinary Adventure set in the wilds of the South Atlantic – highly recommended!’ Gareth Steel, author of Never Work with Animals'Charming descriptions of a life well led on the fringes; vividly told with compassion and humour' Jonathan C Slaght, author of Owls of the Eastern Ice
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Thomas Nelson My Name Is Mahtob
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Xlibris The Misty Trail
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Xlibris Corporation Life is a Circus
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Xlibris Corporation The Heel of the Loaf
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Xlibris Corporation The Heel of the Loaf
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Xlibris Maverick Among the Magnolias
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Xlibris Southern Exposure
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Xlibris Pearl
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Xlibris Corporation Pearl
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Criminal Women
Book SynopsisCriminal Womentells the stories of four women who, in attempting to become women of their own making, became deeply involved in crime.Throughout the book, tales from the underworld and the criminal business world are interspersed with inside accounts of life in the women's prisons Holloway, Styal's Bleak House', Durham's H. Wing, Askham Grange, Pucklechurch and Bullwood Hall.These stories of criminal women are vivid chronicles of the times in which they have lived. They will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the diversity of ways in which women cope with life in a class-riven and still deeply sexist society.Trade Review‘These essays make a poignant and purposeful statement which goes behind the rumors and beyond the mythology into a world that is different from men's prison. The women in them speak with the authentic voice of experience; they are survivors as well as victims.’ Mary McIntosh, University of Essex ‘Once again Pat Carlen's readiness to move outside the familiar topics of criminology has paid off. The women who tell their stories in these pages provide a highly readable, sometimes tragic, often comic introduction to a neglected area. We are fortunate indeed that the first book published in this country on the subject of women and professional crime should also be of such high quality as to suggest that it will remain a standard text for many years.’ Laurie Taylor, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction, Pat Carlen 1 Looking for Trouble, Chris Tchaikovsky 2 Christina: In her own Time, Diana Christina and Pat Carlen 3 Jenny: In a Criminal Business, Jenny Hicks and Pat Carlen 4 Josie: Surviving Holloway... and other Women’s Prisons, Josie O’Dwyer and Pat Carlen Women In Prison, Pat Carlen and Chris Tchaikovsky Appendix: The Women In Prison Manifesto
£21.53
AuthorHouse The Gift of Hurt
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Crown The Magic of Provence Pleasures of Southern France
Book SynopsisWhen Yvone Lenard returned to her native France and purchased a house in a hilltop village of Provence, an enchanted world of food, wines, and unusual adventures-including chicken rustling, flirtatious advances from neighbors, and a séance-opened up before her. This is her account of the spell cast on her by Provence, from her first morning’s visit by a charming prince bearing a jug of the village’s vin rose to the growth of her friendship with a duchess in the local chateau. Lenard shares tales of travels to St. Tropez and visits from American friends who find unexpected romance and magic in Provence. Told with verve, wit, and Lenard’s deep understanding of the French language and culture, this memoir includes tales of others who have been drawn to the region, including Vincent van Gogh, Brigitte Bardot, and Princess Caroline of Monaco. Ways to re-create the magic of the region’s sensuous way of life include recipes for food and drinks, as well as tips for
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Philosophical Library Notes on Chopin
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Philosophical Library Nietzsche Unpublished Letters
£10.95
Random House Publishing Group Crashing Through The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
£16.62
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia What Time and Sadness Spared Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust
Book SynopsisRoma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. What Time and Sadness Spared is a journey of both loss and endurance, moving with shocking speed from a carefree adolescence in upper-middle-class Warsaw to the horrors of the Final Solution.
£19.88
Ohio State University Press Secrets of the Sun
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