How We Got Over: Growing up in the Segregated South, Hardcover - Helen Benjamin

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Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

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African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

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- Anonymous family photos from Britain in the '50s to '80s provide an emotional glimpse of past lives - Shulman's last book Midcentury Memories (97...

The book is semi-autobigraphical and reflects on a myriad of memories darting back to childhood. Now, at the age of 70 the author looks back at acc...

Reducere. In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940...

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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. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we ...

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...

Growing Up in the Splash Zone is a story about a little girl and her many shared adventures with family and friends as they play and explore along ...

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Growing Up in the Medieval Time Zone is a story about a little girl and her hardworking donkey and their many great adventures up and down from the...

The next brand-new classic adventure caper from top-ten bestselling children's author, Ben Miller.Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Ben Mil...

Reducere. Discover here the works of bestseller author, Lucy Score . Things We Never Got Over is the 1st book in Knockemout Series. Things We Never Got Over....

Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)Author(s): Jerad W. AlexanderNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 239 x 161 x 34Co...

Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Fi...

How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe.You are here: on Earth, which is part of the so...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.Pub...

DescriptionThe extraordinary, and largely unchronicled, account of the Cuban people's struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath...

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. 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. 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. In How I Got Over: Stories of Faith and Courage in the Face of Adversity you will meet five people who have endured significant trials and made it ...

The next brand-new classic adventure caper from top-ten bestselling children's author, Ben Miller.Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Ben Mil...

In the first book written by the child of someone who died from an eating disorder, Daniel Becker shows us the heartbreaking details of his mother'...

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