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Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle class, and the owning class-and every place in between-the contributors describe their class journeys in narrative form, recounting one or two key stories...
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Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains...
63) Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
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In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.
In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings-his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas-you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range...
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I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing her work on extensive interviews, Seemah Berson recreates these immigrants' stories about their lives in the Old Country and the hardship of finding...
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Les motards hors-la-loi et les clubs de motards 1% ont toujours soigneusement protégé leur vie privée, mais ces dernières années, de plus en plus de livres ont été écrits par et sur les motards hors-la-loi, le mode de vie et les réalités de la vie dans le monde des clubs de motards patchés.
Cette anthologie rassemble certains des meilleurs auteurs au monde, qui ont récemment écrit sur les clubs de motards, les motards hors-la-loi et...
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Los motociclistas fuera de la ley y los clubes de motociclistas del 1% siempre han protegido cuidadosamente su privacidad; sin embargo, en los últimos años se han escrito más y más libros sobre motociclistas fuera de la ley, el estilo de vida y las realidades de la vida dentro del mundo de los clubes de motociclistas parcheados.
Esta antología reúne a algunos de los mejores autores del mundo, que recientemente han escrito sobre clubes de motociclistas,...
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An anthology of memoirs written by Senior Asian American participants in the senior Asian American writing workshop conducted by Genny Lim at the Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California, San Francisco Japantown, in collaboration with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. Narratives include accounts of Japanese American Internment and post-internment by former detainees, Florence Dobashi, Harumi Serata and Michi Tashiro, an...
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What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.
The powerful first-person narratives of this collection show us a world where gender exists along a spectrum,...
69) Work in Progress
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Work In Progress is a collection of excerpts of works in progress by several authors of The International Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club Reading Nation followed by a description of each excerpt. Some of the works in progress are current, others are from manuscripts that have been put aside for months, or even years. Have you ever wondered how an author came up with the idea for a story? Or if there was a chapter deleted from one of your favorite...
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This provocative book uncovers the truth about a misunderstood and stigmatized disorder, and offers an opportunity for a deeper, more empathetic understanding of BPD from the real experts-the individuals living with it. BPD affects a significant percentage of the population. It is a disorder of relationships, one whose symptoms occur most in interpersonal contexts-and thus impact any number of interpersonal connections in life. When people have BPD,...
71) Our Testimonies
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The years between 1933 and 1945 found more than six million innocent Jews persecuted, tortured, and murdered by the wicked Nazis and their ruthless accomplices.
But tens of thousands of brave Jews miraculously escaped the Nazi inferno. The same unwavering faith and determination that kept them going through the darkest days was their guiding light to make a fresh new start after the war. Many of these survivors arrived in North America, where they...
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In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000 German Jews married to an "Aryan" spouse, Erna was initially exempt from the most radical anti-Jewish measures. However, even after Erna willingly converted to Catholicism, the persecution, isolation,...
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La poésie de la vie selon vingt-sept auteurs romands : leurs moments de bonheur offerts aux lecteurs
L'état du monde a toujours été chaotique, mais la période que nous vivons en ce moment l'est particulièrement. Le racisme et l'antisémitisme se développent comme de la mauvaise herbe, le fanatisme religieux sévit sous toutes les latitudes, les virus fleurissent sous les Tropiques, l'Afghanistan est devenu un vaste champ d'expériences militaires,...
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The Women's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts the manner in which Southern women experienced the war and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts from the letters, books, diaries, and postwar writings the women left behind, it reveals the other side of the war-the women's war-through first-person accounts of women running...
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What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of 'seniors' asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.
Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, playmates, teachers, classmates, pets; their manners, training, rewards and punishments; food; play, toys; likes, dislikes; schools,...
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." President John F. Kennedy's inaugural statement inspired Americans to serve their country for the cause of peace by living and working in the developing world. His vision created the Peace Corps in 1961, and the first volunteers arrived in Liberia in 1962. Sixty years later, in 2022, we celebrate this anniversary with our anthology, Never the Same Again: Life, Service,...
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Soul Survivors: From Trauma to Triumph is a collection of inspiring personal essays and poems celebrating the resilience of the human spirit over pain, trauma and tragedy.
These pieces, written by some of today's most prolific writers, will touch your heart, soothe your soul, and restore your faith that you can overcome and survive life's darkest moments, emerging with strength, courage, hope, tenacity and even beauty.
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A Few Cards Short includes fifty-two short stories about Calen Templeton's life. From his time as a young boy to his adventures in parenting.
Don't expect to learn any valuable life lessons from these stories, you might even end up slightly dumber than, when you first start reading.
Some of the anecdotes are, kind of funny and you will find comfort in the fact that someone out there is fumbling through their best days worse than you are, doing on...
79) Essays on Joseph Conrad in Memory of Prof. Zdzisław Najder (1930-2021). Eseje o Josephie Conradzie k
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This volume of essays - dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzisław Najder (1930–2021) - is a collective gift made by Conrad scholars from the United States, Canada and Europe. It comprises seventeen essays in English and twelve in Polish (including several texts containing reminiscences of Professor Najder), a bibliography of Professor Najder's publications and an index of names. The essays discuss Joseph Conrad's literary achievements and the...
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Nine women share the emotional and practical realities of life away from 'home'.
Grief, loneliness, Brexit, motherhood, identity, belonging, rootlessness, drinking culture and integration are just some of the issues tackled in a series of powerful stories written by nine women on the challenges of expat life. In one of the first books of its kind, these women reveal some of the emotional upheavals and struggles that go hand-in-hand with moving away...
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