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Steph never planned on following in his father's footsteps. Growing up in NYC, he knew what living life in the streets could do to a young kid. The fact that he was an orphan was living proof. Steph had a few golden rules he abided by: stay true to himself and his friends and to follow his plan. The plan was simple: graduate high school, attend college, and take care of his grandmother. However, as is often true, things don't always go according to...
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Discover a wonderful world of celebrations from around the world. Featuring the world's main religions as well as some little-known ceremonies and festivals, this book takes an intriguing and colorful look at how growing up and coming of age are celebrated in many different places.
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What will it mean for all of us to grow up, live and age in a society where half the citizens are over the age of 50? That reality is closer than most of us are willing to imagine.. Never in human history have so many lived for so long - and not just in the United States. It is a global phenomenon, ushering a spectacular social transformation. COMING OF AGE IN AGING AMERICA tells the story of its dimensions, challenges and opportunities.
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Founded in 1869, Cherry Grove (Fire Island, NY) is considered by most to be the first openly LGBTQ community in the United States. It has become known as one of the most accepting resort communities in the world - a place where you can not only discover who you are, but also freely experiment with who or what (gender) you may want to become.. Cherry Grove is also known for the famous "INVASION" - an annual ritual that takes place every July 4th as...
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What does it mean to become an adult in your faith? Join thirteen diverse characters as they experience anxiety, doubt, and self-discovery while preparing for their b'nai mitzvah. And whether celebrating with a lavish party or in reception room A with an accordion player, the Jewish rite of passage remains the same. Filled with humor, hope, and history, there's something in this anthology for every reader, regardless of their faith.
30) A Coming of Age
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The children of Tigris have extraordinary telekinetic gifts-but are these special powers a blessing or a curse? On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they're pre-teens, though, their special abilities peak, then slip away as they reach maturity. Being able to "teek" gives them power-even over most adults-until they gradually become regular teenagers, no longer special, no longer with authority and status....
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In this exquisitely wrought memoir of a committed life, historian and civil rights activist Paul Gaston reveals his deep roots in the unique utopian community founded in 1894 by his grandfather on the shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Fairhope grew into a unique political, economic, and educational experiment and a center of radical economic and educational ideals. As time passed, however, Fairhope's radical nature went into decline. By the early 1950s...
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Running Its CourseJosh is an overachiever whose only competition is Erin, his coach's daughter. Erin is striving to win at all costs until she finds out that she might have feelings for Josh, and Jane, Erin's best friend, is struggling with her identity and balance of friends and family. In a twisted, true to life story, these characters find out more about themselves, each other, and their beliefs.AcademiaWhen Shane accepts a scholarship to the University...
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Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors-some eminent, some less well known-who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, racially, geographically, and in sexual orientation, these...
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Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador,...
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We don't know anything about the past and we don't seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it meaningful, the real repositories of living information, are being lost.Studs TerkelTogether, these stories represent an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout the century and the ways in which the times have changed.Coming of Age is a compelling picture of what we have gained through progress...
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Born and raised in the Midwest, Harold M. Kolenbrander is the embodiment of Midwestern values. Yet coming of age in the 1940s and 50s in a small farming town was not without its excitement and, at times, danger. And for Kolenbrander, it was an environment that bred curiosity, exploration and ingenuity. In “Coming of Age in a Town Time Forgot”, Kolenbrander presents a series of autobiographical vignettes in which he revisits his hometown, a place...
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This overview offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC during the 1930s. In contrast to the ways in which young people have been portrayed by researchers, policymakers, law enforcement, and the media, Paula C. Austin draws on previously unstudied archival material to present black poor and working-class young people as thinkers, theorists,...
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"Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Tom Boellstorff is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (Princeton),...
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"Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish Studies" "Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)" "Finalist for the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean" "Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)" "Honorable Mention for the 2018 AAR Award for...
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