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English
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"This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait...
7) Alpha
Author
Publisher
America Star Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
215 pages, [16 pages] plates ; 32
Language
English
Description
Joe Purkey recounts events occuring in his early life to the present. He does not regard this work as an autobiography. It is in regard to his family and neighbors living in and around Alpha, Tennessee. Many scenarios are vivid and attention grabbing enough, and he writes about them especially for the reader.
Author
Series
Literature of the American West volume 14
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
ix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
291 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Dawn French, bluffing her way to each BBC series, shooting Lulu, trading wild faxes with Joanna Lumley, touring India with Ruby Wax and Goldie Hawn. There's cancer, too, when she becomes 'Brave Jen'. But her biggest battle is with the bane of her life: the Laws of Procrastination.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 215 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scottie Jones lived a typical suburban, professional life in Pheonix until her husband, Greg, got into a near-fatal car accident. While recovering, he became convinced that they needed a change and a simpler way of life, one more connected with nature and with each other. So, driven by a desire to cut ties with a material and convenient suburban life that had left them feeling empty, they bought a peaceful-looking farmhouse on sixty acres in Oregon...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yiyun Li's searing personal story of hospitalizations for depression and thoughts of suicide is interlaced with reflections on the solace and affirmations of life and personhood that Li found in reading the journals, diaries, and fiction of other writers: William Trevor, Katherine Mansfield, and more"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Haviland, Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Samuel J. May, revealing that they wrote not only to counter the popular image of themselves as fanatics, but also to remind readers of the harsh reality of slavery and to advocate equal rights for African Americans in an era of growing racism, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. --from publisher description.
18) In other words
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Language
English
Description
"A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment--a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she's now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she's still got an irrepressible laugh,...
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
In this amazing account, Daniel Seddiqui tells of working fifty different jobs in fifty states in fifty weeks. Working as everything from a cheesemaker in Wisconsin to a border patrol agent in Arizona, he details his journey across the industries and cultures of the United States and offers lessons he learned along the way about perseverance, risk taking, adaptability, networking, and endurance.
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