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English
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In this memoir, Westover recounts her childhood growing up in a strict Mormon family, ruled by an erratic father, and living off the grid in Idaho. Westover compellingly sketches her years growing up, her relationships with siblings, encounters in the town nearby, and the events that eventually drove her to leave and pursue formal education.
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English
Description
"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four ... When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the...
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Language
English
Description
On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The noted pop star offers a moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others." --
10) Slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
19 volumes ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery program. Each entry represents an oral history of a former slave or a descendant of a former slave and his or her personal account of life during slavery and emancipation. These interviews were published...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women whove fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends and coming home is really like. Readers who next thank a military member for their service will finally have a true understanding of what that thanks is for.
13) Becoming
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Language
English
Description
"When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where her parents raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from Princeton, where she learned what it felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer -- and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended...
14) Who's who
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
19uu
Physical Desc
volumes ; 24-28 cm
Language
English
15) Lineage book
Author
Publisher
[The Society]
Pub. Date
1896-1921
Physical Desc
166 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly ... but women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of...
18) Biography index
Publisher
H. W. Wilson Co
Pub. Date
1949
Physical Desc
volumes ; 27 cm
Language
English
19) Lab girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of the unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it. D'Anieri provides backstories for the dreamers and builders who helped bring the Trail to life over the past century. A must-read for anyone who wonders about our relationship with the great outdoors. -- adapted from jacket
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