Growing Up Gullah in the Lowcountry, Paperback - Jo (Josie) a. Olsvig

Reducere. This is a bright, colorful and informative children's book about the Gullah culture derived from West African slave descendants. It is a book that ...

Reducere. In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the ...

Reducere. In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the ...

Whether you want to tour historic houses, feast on Lowcountry cuisine, or party on King Street, the local Fodor's travel experts in Charleston are ...

Whether you want to learn haunted history during a ghost tour, take a river boat cruise, or taste locally-made beer, the local Fodor's travel exper...

Reducere. The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe,...

Publisher: Y LolfaAuthor(s): Jos SimonNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescope...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet . . . the shrieking spirit of Crab Boy lost forever to a fierce Murrells Inlet marsh creature . . . an ingenious slave matching wit...

With humor and an emphasis on responsibility, Spare Me 'The Talk' A Guy's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Growing Up is a comprehensive crash cour...

Reducere. Bannack is a story of adventure and self-discovery set in the time of the Civil War and vigilante violence. Sixteen-year-old Billy Mayfair, kicked ...

The continuing adventures of Dai Morrisey through the war yearsPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Bronwen HosieNumber of pages: 96Publicati...

As I look back at the 1950s and early '60s I realize now that what seemed like a depression to me, truly was a blessing in disguise. I honestly bel...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Jose M. FaraldoNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories.

Throughout it all, her indomitable spirit - and her vivid sense of humour - kept her alive. A vivid, intimate and darkly funny account of a life le...

Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal f...

Reducere. A humorous account of growing up in the midwestern suburban enclaves that sprung up during the height of the Baby Boomer era. The author details co...

Reducere. This book is a result of three and a half years of weekly columns in the Newark (Ohio) Advocate many years ago. It was very well received, and I of...

Angel Tucker-Carr's bold and courageous viewpoint within the pages of this book will serve as a reality mirror for individuals who are willing and ...

Reducere. Exiled to SiberiaIn June 1941, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their h...

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. DescriptionFor fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We ...

Reducere. For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call ...

Reducere. Growing Up in the ColonialThe Colonial Hotel was a landmark for fifty years in the southeastern Tennessee town, Copperhill. The Colonial, our famil...

Reducere. I grew up Grant because Ulysses was too dangerous a name to call a kid in the 1950s, when conformity ruled, and Ulysses S. Grant's reputation was i...

Reducere. Pull on Gary's cowboy boots to see his world with low vision as he abruptly leaves his farm home at age eight for a residential school and enters t...

It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social histo...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early. When Haven Kimmel was...

"An entertaining memoir that reads like a sitcom.""Made me laugh until tears were coming down my face."In Growing up Greenpoint, Tommy Carbone capt...

Reducere. The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentra...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Pacifique IrankundaNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 200 x 28Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. "People have long told stories like our story but most never quite as long." And so begins Earl S. Braggs complex jazz memoir of growing up black a...

This book is about a man who had a dream at a very tender age and lived the dream despite all the odds that were stacked against him. With his miss...

Reducere. In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about ...

Reducere. If you've ever really wanted something--a job, acceptance to a college, a part in a play--and it seemed within your grasp but always slipped away, ...

At various times throughout her adult life in the United States, Katharina Rich Perlow was asked how her family survived World War II in Vienna, Au...

DescriptionA lot of people want to change the world, but what can we learn from those who have tried? Counterculture Crossover is a remarkable memo...

Reducere. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and ...

Reducere. We live in a crazy time. On top of that, you're trying to figure out who you are and how to find your place in this ever-changing world. You're bui...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frank Dimatteo SrThe Publisher of 'MOB CANDY' Magazine Brings You The Untold Stories of What life is Really Like Growing Up...

Reducere. This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientist...

An upbringing in the WASP enclaves of suburban Boston gave Arthur D. Ullian an early taste of antisemitism, and later sent him on a search through ...

Reducere. This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a...

Reducere. Amityville, New York, sits on the south shore of Long Island about forty miles east of New York City. This book is a collection of forty-four first...

A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and mom of three gives parents and educators the tech habits children need to achieve their full potential--and a si...

A beautiful memoir of unexpected pregnancy, of growing things and caring for plants, and how they return the favour.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoA...