An American Childhood

The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss - Anthony M. DeStefano

89,00 RON 98,89 RON

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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Paperback - William Zinsser

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of w...

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Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, Paperback - Stephen Kuusisto

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen KuusistoBlind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of ...

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Essential Ruth Stone, Paperback - Ruth Stone

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Reducere. Expertly and sensitively selected by her granddaughter Bianca, The Essential Ruth Stone bears witness to a vivid fifty-year career of one of Americ...

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An African American Woman's Childhood in Segregated Southeast Texas, Paperback - Hortense Emma Kilpatrick

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Reducere. A nonfiction genre publication written in a storytelling format, Hortense Kilpatrick's powerful and riveting memoir An African American Woman's Chi...

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Leaving Darkness Behind. Recovery From Childhood Sexual Abuse, Paperback - Elizabeth M. Altmaier

189,99 RON

Provides a psychologically informed perspective on childhood sexual abuse. Written by an author who is herself a survivor, this guide describes how...

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Another Mother: A Jamaican Woman, The Jewish Boy She Raised and His Quest for Her Secret History, Paperback - Ross Kenneth Urken

95,00 RON

After his cherished childhood nanny dies, a Jewish young man entering adulthood realises there's so much he has yet to learn about the woman who le...

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Outside Boy, Paperback - Jeanine Cummins

62,99 RON

A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from the author of AMERICAN DIRT.

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My Daddy's Blues: A Childhood Memoir from the Land of Huck & Jim, Paperback - Gregg Andrews

86,99 RON

Born near a dusty cement plant in the northeast Missouri village of Ilasco, close to Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal native Gregg Andrews draws on the vo...

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The Geography of Childhood, Paperback - Gary Nabhan

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. What may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history?About the Author: Gary Pau...

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American Prince. My Autobiography, Paperback - Tony Curtis

94,99 RON

An autobiography of Tony Curtis, without question a Hollywood legend and part of its Golden Age. It tells his story, from his hard-knock childhood ...

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Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, Paperback - Jennifer Hays-Grudo

397,99 RON 425,99 RON

Reducere. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can negatively influence development. However, the lifelong effects of positive childhood experiences (PACEs) ...

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Arab in America, Paperback - Toufic El Rassi

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. Through his own life story - from childhood to his life as an adult, Toufic El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and discrimination Arabs and Muslims...

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Clamor, Paperback - Hocine Tandjaoui

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Music. Translated by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio. Artwork by Julie Simon-T...

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A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero - Gina Capaldi

53,99 RON 57,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis story reveals the remarkable life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, or "Beckoning, " who was kidnapped from his Yavapai tribe...

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My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, Paperback - Joyce Carol Oates

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family dest...

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Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality!, Hardcover - James Buckley

68,99 RON

DescriptionA graphic biography of civil rights leader and American icon Martin Luther King Jr. This graphical biography tells the story of the most...

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The House Of The Spirits, Hardback - Isabel Allende

79,99 RON

We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmo...

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Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for Adhd, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Paperback - Enrico Gnaulati

111,99 RON

A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric ...

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Dear Highlights: What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids, Hardcover - Christine French Cully

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. A unique, inside look at American childhood through the conversations between Highlights magazine and its young readers and a call to grown-ups to ...

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Reg Smythe: Creator of Andy Capp: My Dancing Bear, Paperback - Helene de Klerk

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionReg Smythe was the first British cartoonist to break into the American market. His world famous character, Andy Capp, was his "dancing b...

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The Road to Home: My Life and Times, Paperback - Vartan Gregorian

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Musli...

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Pez: From Austrian Invention to American Icon, Hardcover - Shawn Peterson

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed peppermint ...

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Act One: An Autobiography, Paperback - Moss Hart

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American me...

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Alexander Hamilton: The Fighting Founding Father!, Hardcover - Mark Shulman

60,99 RON

DescriptionA fascinating and entertaining biography of Alexander Hamilton, in graphic novel format. Alexander Hamilton: The Fighting Founding Fathe...

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Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, Paperback - Sarah Fawn Montgomery

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDiagnosed with severe anxiety, PTSD, and OCD in her early twenties, Sarah Fawn Montgomery spent the next ten years seeking treatment and...

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Yes We Can: A Biography of President Barack Obama, Paperback - Garen Thomas

68,99 RON 73,99 RON

Reducere. The great American leader uses his voice to change history, alter politics, and bring hope of a brighter future to generations to come. Born in the...

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Karma and Other Stories, Paperback - Rishi Reddi

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. In this sparkling collection, award-winning writer Rishi Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an...

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Anthracis: A Microbial Mystery, Hardcover - Millicent Eidson

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. Anthracis is the debut novel in an alphabetical series featuring Maya Maguire, medical detective, in her journey as an Asian American veterinarian ...

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Passing, Hardcover - Nella Larsen

47,99 RON 51,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a fe...

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Hidden Messages in Your Birth Chart, Paperback - Maxine Taylor

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. From early adulthood and onward, Maxine Taylor has always been passionate about understanding the power of childhood programming as expressed in ou...

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Ugly Music, Paperback - Diannely Antigua

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Diannely Antigua's debut collection, UGLY MUSIC, is a cacop...

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An American Marriage, Hardcover - Tayari Jones

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the b...

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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood, Paperback - Tom Shillue

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. From the stand-up comedian and popular host on the Fox News Network, a nostalgic look back at his childhood and the simple American values that sha...

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Voices of Time: A Life in Stories - Eduardo Galeano

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, ind...

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The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America, Hardcover - Byron L. Dorgan

138,99 RON

DescriptionThrough the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children livi...

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Creamy & Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food, Hardcover - Jon Krampner

152,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. More than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consolin...

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Not A Genuine Black Man, Paperback - Brian Copeland

118,99 RON

When Brian Copeland was eight, his mother moved his family from Oakland to San Leandro, hoping to escape her abusive husband. In the early 1970s, S...

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Alcatraz: My Home Town: A memoir of my childhood growing up on "The Rock", Paperback - Haroldene Freeman

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. This enthralling story of life on "The Rock", America's only Federal prison on an island in the middle of the scenic San Francisco Bay is a window ...

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Our World Readers: Hurum's Hobby. American English, New ed - Jill O'Sullivan

46,99 RON

Many kids have a hobby. Some kids leave their hobby behind as they grow up. But others turn their hobby into the work they do as an adult, like Jor...

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Muslim American Writers at Home: Stories, Essays and Poems of Identity, Diversity and Belonging, Paperback - Valerie Behiery

195,99 RON 209,99 RON

Reducere. This timely collection allows us to hear firsthand the amazingly diverse voices of North American Muslim writers speaking for themselves. Stereotyp...

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Dsm-5(r)), Paperback (5th Ed.) - American Psychiatric Association

1.009,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: American Psychiatric AssociationThis new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5(R)), used ...

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The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving, Paperback - Larry Spotted Crow Mann

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry Spotted Crow MannLarry Spotted Crow Mann's groundbreaking novel, The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving is the 2015 WordCr...

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Come Home, Indio: A Memoir, Paperback - Jim Terry

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood. In his memoir, we are invited to wa...

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Unrecoverable: An American woman's rescue from a Turkish prison, Paperback - Shelly Lantz

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Shelly Lantz is a wife, homemaker, and joyful friend. If you met her today, you'd never know her untold story, the harrowing true tale of a young A...

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Never Give Up!: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges, Paperback - Joyce Meyer

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Joyce Meyer is probably better equipped than anyone when it comes to never giving up. She overcame an abused childhood, a bad marriage and extremel...

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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Paperback - Richard Blanco

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of C...

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After the Darkness: A Survivor's True Story of Childhood Incest, Rape, Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Her Ability to Overcome the Negative, Paperback -

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn "After the Darkness" Dr. Candace Nadine Breen, PhD, shares how she overcame childhood trauma, sexual abuse and rape to her present ro...

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Look Back to Yesterday, Paperback - Tara Lynn Marta

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Rebecca is a thirty-four-year-old woman looking for yesterday. Alone after the death of her father and break up with her live-in boyfriend John, Re...

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A Newark Childhood; A Memoir, Hardcover - David Hugo Barrett

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. Weaving through African American music, folklore, and mores, A Newark Childhood is a coming-of-age story that journeys from the author's years in k...

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The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West, Hardcover - Carrot Quinn

141,99 RON

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

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Eugene Field, Collection children's poetry, Paperback - Eugene Field

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Eugene Field, Sr. (1850 - 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field first started publishing po...

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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis, Paperback - Douglas H. Gresham

54,99 RON 58,99 RON

Reducere. Including the True Story of the Remarkable Love Affair between Joy Davidman and C. S. LewisThere has probably never been a less likely couple: she,...

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Dreams From My Father, Paperback - Barack Obama

69,99 RON

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young ma...

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Worldview Guide to the Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Canon Classics Literature Series), Paperback - Toby J. Sumpter

33,00 RON

Description"Ah, childhood. Boys. Long summer days, barefoot, fishing, swimming, laughter, pocket knives, dirty hands, dirty faces, sweaty brows, tr...

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American Indian Stories, Paperback - ***

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Reducere. American Indian Stories (1921) is a collection of stories and essays from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Sá. Published while Zitkála-Sá was at the h...

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William McKinley, Library Binding - Megan M. Gunderson

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. This biography introduces readers to William McKinley including his early political career and key events from McKinley's administration including ...

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The Butterfly Bruises, Paperback - Palmer Smith

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. The Butterfly Bruises is a collection of poems and stories regarding animals, the ocean, miscommunication, childhood, Northeastern versus Southern ...

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The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, Hardcover - Benjamin Franklin

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is considered one of the most famous and popular works in American literature. It has been said t...

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Nickel and a Prayer, Paperback - Jane Edna Hunter

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential African American soci...

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They Knew Lincoln, Hardcover - John E. Washington

183,00 RON

Contributor(s): Author: John E. WashingtonEditor: Kate MasurOriginally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is...

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Bubble 'n' Squeak: A Collection of Short Stories, Paperback - Stephen J. Groak

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. Through the dynamic interplay between memory and imagination, Stephen J. Groak explores his colorful childhood in 1970s West Auckland, New Zealand,...

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Helen Perry Curtis and The European Trip of a Lifetime, Paperback - Laura Gellott

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. In 1937, Helen Perry Curtis published Jean & Company, Unlimited. Chosen in 1938 as a Junior Literary Guild Selection of the Month, Jean is the char...

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Loving an Adult Child of an Alcoholic, Paperback - Douglas Bey

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. The child of an alcoholic develops patterns of behavior during childhood which carry over into adult life. As children they were taught to cover up...

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Oprah Winfrey: A Biography of the Billionaire Media Mogul and Philanthropist, Paperback - Anna Williams

39,99 RON

DescriptionOprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk sho...

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Farewell Shiraz: An Iranian Memoir of Revolution and Exile, Paperback - Cyrus Kadivar

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's...

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Waylaid, Paperback - Ed Lin

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that...

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The American Fly Fishing Experience: Theodore Gordon: His Lost Flies and Last Sentiments, Paperback - John Gubbins

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. "The American Fly Fishing Experience" brings to light Theodore Gordon's private life and his lost fly fishing inventions. It is the only book to do...

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A Date with a Dish: Classic African-American Recipes, Paperback - Freda Deknight

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. An outstanding feast of distinctively American culinary genius, this comprehensive collection of authentic African-American recipes was assembled b...

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American Animals: A True Crime Memoir, Paperback - Eric Borsuk

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. AS SEEN IN THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE "One of the most esoteric and far-fetched crimes in 21st century annals." --The Hollywood Reporter "A rare book...

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