Corn-Fed: Cul-De-Sacs, Keg Stands, and Coming of Age in the Midwest, Paperback - Melanie Laforce

Description"Corn-Fed" is a nostalgic romp through growing up in the Midwest. Poignant, humorous, and honest, "Corn-Fed" will take you from childhoo...

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

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Reducere. Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew u...

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

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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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Reducere. A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest be...

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

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

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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...

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An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexi...

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In addition to demonstrating a methodology that can be applied to studies of other emergent regional traditions, McGriff concludes that these style...

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