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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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With laugh-out-loud impertinence and tongue-in-cheek humor, a New York Times best-selling author profiles the unforgettable, impressive 19th- and early 20th-century women-unjustly called sluts, shrews, sinners and scolds-who refused to conform to social standards and who were collectively unbecoming as women, but forever changed what women can become.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned byher family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide. Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them,...
Publisher
2 Entertain Video Limited
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rowan Atkinson is deliciously twisted as the comic villain, Edmund Black Adder, in the enormously popular comedy series. Follow Black Adder in hysterical send-ups of the Middle Ages, the Elizabethan age, the Regency Period, and World War I. This special edition contains new exclusive interviews and audio commentaries.
Episodes of the comedy serial about the terminally treacherous Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (alias The Black Adder) following him through...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet...
Author
Series
Hebrides volume 1
Publisher
Luath Press Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Life in the Scottish Hebrides can be harsh - The edge of the world some call it. For the beautiful Kirsty Macleod, the love of Murdo and their dreams of America promise an escape from the scrape of the land, the repression of the Church and the inevitablility of the path their lives would take. But as the Great War looms Murdo is conscripted. The villagers hold a grand Road Dance to send their young men off to battle. As the dancers swirl and sup,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the worldhas become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...
Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegraia Hudes, and Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life's transitions. Carefully...
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