An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery, Hardcover

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A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthoodPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): ...

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Reducere. Based on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Ch vez has created a historical novel abo...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

DescriptionThis inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the Am...

Reducere. Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's ...

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Reducere. Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in...

Reducere. The Council of Dads is a profoundly moving and illuminating new work from Bruce Feiler, author of the monumental New York Times bestsellers Walking...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Mar...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married...

Reducere. Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and i...

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up know...

The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, whic...

Publisher: Maria Dismondy IncorporatedAuthor(s): Cindy L. RodriguezIllustration(s): 32 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 32Publication dat...

Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Patricia Cox CrewsEditor: Carolyn DuceyAuthor: Part of a comprehensive catalog of the International Quilt Study Center and ...

In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife...

Reducere. A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebr...

Reducere. Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vib...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II, the popular primetime Fox News anch...

CONTENTS: Chapter 1: 1762-1786; Chapter 2: 1787-1817; Chapter 3: 1818-1830; Chapter 4: 1831-1845 (Introduction); Chapter 5: 1847-1853; Chapter 6: 1...

Reducere. Many Americans remember growing up watching Westerns on television which always depicted a clash of two diverse cultures. There is still a curiosit...

Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town AmericaPublisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Russell S...

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

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Reducere. DescriptionDo ya wanna throw some?So began the lifelong friendship between NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw and his favorite receiver th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

Reducere. The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. ...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Steffi WalthallIllustration(s): Full colourNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 264 x 262...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...