Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream, Hardcover

Reducere. The inspiring all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, and Time"100 Most Influential People" h...

DescriptionThe runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They're from low income families, many of whom are migrant wor...

DescriptionThe inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, and...

Reducere. In this book, you will find the foundations of a hard and true story of a humble emigrant family in search of their destiny. Around the backbone of...

Reducere. The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon""Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.""-Newark Star...

- This book is the journal of French filmmaker Benoit Cohen's pursuit of his "American dream" by becoming a New York taxi driver French filmmaker B...

From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, th...

Reducere. Being the only child of a single mother, Sergio was raised by his maternal grandparents in a South Texas region better known as the Rio Grande Vall...

Reducere. What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price ...

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

Reducere. Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying "We're better than this." He said it in Baltimore, a city on the verge of explosion over...

Half of a Whole explores the intimate bond between a twin brother and sister, the cruel consequences that occur when one of them becomes mentally i...

He fought back from the brink of death, and created a new and profoundly meaningful life from the wreckage of his experience. Meet Jamie Hull, form...

Reducere. In his highly readable, educational and inspiring memoir, Holocaust Survivor Ben Lesser's warm, grandfatherly tone invites the reader to do more th...

Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.

This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer ...

This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one Iranian woman overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a majo...

Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.The American...

Reducere. The Gifford sisters, Grace (later Plunkett), Muriel (later MacDonagh), Nellie (later Donnelly), and Sydney (later Czira) were key figures in the Re...

Part memoir, part call to action, this young readers' edition dives into the inspiring life of the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings--from c...

Publisher: International Publishers Co Inc., U.S.Author(s): Cheddi JaganNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 33Cover t...

DescriptionFor decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. No...

Reducere. From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream vividly recounts the journey of an African-American woman from rural, segregated Mississi...

DescriptionConventional financial mindsets are failing too many people. We save, invest, and borrow the way Wall Street, banks, and the financial m...

An inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley's youngest entrepreneurs--a second-generation Latino immigrant who...

Michael Edelstein was headstrong and independent, a self-described mamzer. He was 10 years old when he rolled under barbed wire and escaped the rou...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mitch AlbomRecounts the remarkable story of University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juan Howard...

DescriptionA powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julissa ArceA remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her jou...

Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...

"A moving and beautifully crafted memoir."--SCOTT TUROW "A daring act of justified defiance."--SHAKA SENGHOR "Nothing less than heroic."--JOHN GRIS...

Reducere. In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. On...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard W. Paradise"Living Life Riverside" is a tragicomedy about your vanilla-average Midwestern couple who, when they rea...

DescriptionA powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational ...

Reducere. The Fight for My Life: Boxing Through Chemo is about developing a stronger mind, body and soul for facing your worst enemy. Whether it's cancer, di...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in ...

Reducere. A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands forIn Behold, Ame...

Reducere. Since elementary school, and amongst many new era people of this land, a peculiar story of the finding of this land is taught, retold, analyzed, an...

Reducere. Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of ...

Reducere. An acclaimed journalist seeks to understand the mysterious allure of peacocks--and in the process discovers unexpected and valuable life lessons. W...

Reducere. On the Border of a Dream is an eye­-opening and uplifting autobiography that tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico, who at a young age se...

Reducere. In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capi...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

Allison Drew's frail, ninety-one-year-old father Tom Drew vanishes without a trace from his Salisbury, Connecticut home in July 2007. His caregiver...

Reducere. In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course o...

Reducere. A young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate. A notoriously cruel anti-Semite hunting for Jews. Why did this murderer risk...

DescriptionNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Vogue and CosmopolitanThe unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the ...