Leaving Aberdeen: Memoir of a Southern Girl, Paperback - Estell Halliburton

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Reducere. THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1, 700) in...

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Reducere. Description"A harrowing read, and it should be . . . enlightening . . . A disturbing and illuminating tale."--KIRKUS REVIEWSThe 1960s have come to ...

Reducere. AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE and fresh out of college, Julia fell head over heels for Randy, a charming co-worker who swooped in with flowers, romant...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Tells how a renowned preacher left her ministry to rediscover the authentic heart of her faith. She recalls with grace and wit her calling, her gro...

This Sunday Times bestseller is a memoir about faith and doubt, with a strong meditative and philosophical heart

This captivating and deeply emotional memoir pulls back the curtain on the complex relationship women have between their bodies, love, and the way ...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Revolution uprooted six-year-old Cecilia from her comfortable middle-class Cuban home ...

Reducere. With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of...

Reducere. "An absolutely breathless read. Nowhere Girl is a courageous, heart-breaking, and beautifully written story of a girl doing everything in her power...

Reducere. A poignant narrative of one mom's struggle to support her transgender daughter--showing how any parent can forge a deeper bond with their child by ...

Reducere. Colin Dayan meditates on the connection between her personal and family history and her relationship with animals in this lyrical memoir about her ...

A radically honest account of surviving sexual exploitation in the Irish sex trade, in a psychotherapist's personal account of trauma and the integ...

** Includes foreword from Susie Green, CEO of charity Mermaids **Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Marlo MackNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 20...

Written for the invisible walking wounded among us who hide their pain behind smiles-and for the educators and mentors who sometimes doubt the powe...

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - the vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches fo...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Profoundly philosophical, surprisingly funny and brutally honest, this modern day tragic-comedy pull...

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of ...

DescriptionThe activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in AmericaAt the age of five, Megan...

Publisher: Penguin USAAuthor(s): Estelle LaureNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 209 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. Farm Girl is a memoir of urgent grace that crosses boundaries of genre and time. In her second year of college, Megan finds herself bonded to a lov...

Reducere. DescriptionFor fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a "raw and deeply honest" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) true story...

A memoir about parenting, disability, and the strange beauty of being human.

Reducere. Once There Was a Girl is the poignant true story of Wendy, a young black woman struggling to grow up in a housing project in New Orleans. Facing ab...

Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society ...

Reducere. Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was on...

Now in paperback--"The triumph of Kelle Groom's memoir lies in her plangent, poetic prose as she lays bare the onset of her alcoholism at age fifte...

From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life-and finding yourself-in music....

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of ...

This book will take you on an adventure that begins in Hamburg during WW II. As a child Birgit Quam journeyed to Amrum, a distant island in the Nor...

Reducere. Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child,...

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