Concrete Steps: Coming of Age in a Once-Big City, Paperback - Larry C. Kerpelman

Seen through the eyes of an intellectually ambitious son of immigrant parents, Concrete Steps is the story of a boy growing up in the 1940s and '50...

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Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Jesica Siham FernandezIllustration(s): 2 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Critical P...

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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

`Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel

Reducere. Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights...

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Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel.

Reducere. It's June 1953 and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother's car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his...

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Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

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The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtua...

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Reducere. Big Nose, Big City is the companion children's book to the documentary film 'Idle Threat'. One man's crusade to improve air quality in New York Cit...

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Reducere. A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of ni...

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At Wimbledon 2005, Andy Murray announced himself on the tennis world stage by thrashing star pros George Bastl and Radek Stepanek: a legend was bor...

Once in a while a travel book comes along that pushes at the boundaries of the genre. Quondam: Travels in a Once World does exactly that, asking us...

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Discover a wonderful world of celebrations from around the world. Featuring the world's main religions as well as some little-known ceremonies and ...