Juventud! Growing Up on the Border: Stories and Poems, Paperback - Rene Saldana Jr.

Reducere. Borders are magical places, and growing up on a border, crossing and recrossing that space where this becomes that, creates a very special sort of ...

'Hear and attend and listen...'Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inve...

Reducere. One of the most important Latin-American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nicaraguan poet and essayist Ruben Dario (th...

A wonderful selection of writing on cats, from Aesop to Oscar Wilde, and from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century New York

DescriptionSait Faik may well be named "the Turkish Chekhov." In Turkey, critics and readers regard him as their finest short story writer. Since h...

A Curious Collection is a 322 page book of more than 25 short stories and a selection of poetry and verse.The individual works include characters s...

DescriptionFrom the title story -- a tall tale of a floppy-eared pie thief who encounters grace in the unlikeliest of places -- to poetic reflectio...

Reducere. A coming-of-age story set in the mid-sixties, revolving around young John Terry, one of seven siblings in an Irish Catholic family growing up in th...

Reducere. Description"I was expecting this to be good, but it's wonderful. Seeing these pieces together makes me realize what a vivid, authentic and importan...

Reducere. Language games allow children to stretch their communication abilities, enhancing vocabulary, conversation, and storytelling skills. A suggested ag...

Reducere. DescriptionInky and Me: Stories about Growing Up on a Ranch in Texas is about much more than just a boy and his dog. It is about a way of life that...

The first translation into English of the poems of Francophone and Creolophone Mauritian writer Rene Noyau (1911-1984). The poems are presented in ...

Reducere. Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prai...

Reducere. DescriptionLewels' tales of a young Mexican-American coming of age on the border are riveting. Sometimes they are zany and at other times heart bre...

Reducere. Hal Borland migrated with his parents to the still unsettled, windswept high plains of eastern Colorado to take advantage of the Homestead Act. The...

The first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an eroti...

Reducere. This is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author's family, youth, career, and travel. Paul Bennett provides readers with his uni...

Hunter S. Thompson, smart hillbilly, boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, ...

'I believe that children who are questioning and exploring their gender are the gender bosses that we all so desperately need. I believe that they ...

Hilarious and heart-warming and utterly compelling, Hidden Lessons lets you in on the life secrets all teachers knowPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton G...

Reducere. This enthralling story of life on "The Rock", America's only Federal prison on an island in the middle of the scenic San Francisco Bay is a window ...

Hilarious and heart-warming and utterly compelling, Hidden Lessons lets you in on the life secrets all teachers knowPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton G...

Reducere. What's the one area from your past that you keep getting your flesh caught in over and over again? Where are you still wounded and bleeding? The go...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen your father is a world renowned theologian, author of over 100 books, professor, pastor, radio teacher you grow up in a world where...

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... But what happens to the people who grow up there?Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s): Timothy O'GradyNumber of pag...

Reducere. Listen Up is not a traditional memoir. It is a book of stories: some powerful and some humorous. These stories are about West Point, playing lacros...

Aheartbreaking and powerful memoir of a young man's plunge into the mental and physical depths of crystal meth addiction.

Reducere. This introductory manual was written to provide prospective olive growers (both city people looking for a change in lifestyle and existing farmers)...

Reducere. This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the roa...

Reducere. Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on t...

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

Reducere. In this book, Phyllis Krystal describes techniques, rituals and symbols which are capable of impressing positive messages on the subconscious mind ...

Reducere. The author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power...

Reducere. In this fine short-story collection, 29 Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges of adolescence from the unique perspectives of t...

Ten women veterans, from a WWII Marine to an Army gunner in Iraq, share personal stories of what it's like to be a woman in the U.S. Military. With...

Welcome to Bunk 9--and a new girl-powered puberty book girls will want to read. Based on the lively conceit that it's written by nine older girls a...

Reducere. With self-deprecating humour and keen observational insights, Ben Robicheau tells the tale of life on Brier Island, Nova Scotia, in the middle of t...

DescriptionBased on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photograph...

Reducere. I have written a beautiful book about my memories growing up on the Gulf Beaches between 1947 and 1960. My book describes the environment changes t...