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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding...
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Lyons Press
Language
English
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"A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America"--
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English
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Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to “love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel.” Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely...
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Hanover Square Press
Language
English
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Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald’s East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the living room floor. But amid the pain and anguish, Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. She can find hope in a nurturing teacher who helps her...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Recounts the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's decision to quit her job in favor of undertaking a journey of self-discovery in Europe, during which she studied French cooking in Paris, attended Border-collie training in Scotland, learned traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, and more.--Atlas publishing.
12) My war
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces' daily newspaper in Europe, including his personal account of the liberation and entry into Buchenwald
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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An account of the close relationship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok shares insights into how their decades-long friendship transformed their lives and empowered them to play significant roles in a tumultuous period in American history.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"An inspiring, timely, and conversation-starting memoir from the barrier-breaking and Emmy Award-winning journalist Ilia Calderon-the first Afro-Latina to anchor a high-profile newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States-about following your dreams, overcoming prejudice, and embracing your identity"--
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