Author: Gina Cowan
What was it like to be child in wartime Glasgow? This book gives a personal view of the conditions of that time. Many older readers will identify with Ena and recall their own memories of those times. Younger readers wil ... |
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One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream
Author: Ruth Merry & Steve Emecz
Ruth Merry was born disabled with Arthogryposis and has spent her life in a wheelchair. An avid swimmer and skier Ruth's dream, was to one day tackle the Bobsleigh. This is the incredible true story of how a chance comme ... |
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Biographies of Six Prominent Americans with Disabilities
Author: Brian McMahon & Linda Shaw
"Enabling Lives" provides a look at the disability civil rights movement through an intimate portrayal of the lives of several of its key leaders. Each of the chapters of this book is a separate authorized biography of s ... |
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Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith
Author: Cherise Smith
The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their co ... |
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Author: Charles Wayne Morrill
Life is the most amazing gift that we have; enjoy it! Itas full of fantastic mysteries to discover. Weave all had our amazing memories and stories to share; weave all had tragedies that weave had to overcome. Life someti ... |
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The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Author: Donald Spoto
Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother thought they would b ... |
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Pauline Viardot - Soprano, Muse and Lover
Author: Michael Steen
This is a picturesque but painstakingly researched biography of the life - and the times - of the nineteenth century's Maria Callas. She was among 'the most brilliant dramatic stars of our time', according to Franz Liszt ... |
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Author: Alistair Campbell
The Encomium Emmae Reginae is a political tract in praise, as its title suggests, of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife of the Danish conquer ... |
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A Journal of the Eightieth Year
Author: May Sarton
In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, critical recognition, an ... |
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Author: Peter Mayle
"Encore Provence" continues the account of an Englishman's life abroad. Among other curiosities, explore a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher, the quest for the finest bouill ... |
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Author: Maurice Friedman
Traces the life of the renowned Jewish religious philosopher, discussing his youth, his education in turn-of-the-century Vienna, his Zionism, and the impact of world politics on his life and thought. |
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A Life of Martin Buber
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The Memoirs, Reminiscences, and Amazing Life of Captain Edmund Rrichard Pitman Shurly, 1829-1909
Author: Robert Vanderzee
In this richly detailed, compelling historical biography, Robert Vanderzee brings to life the adventures, courage, and determination of his great-grandfather, Edmund Richard Pitman Shurly (1829-1909), who was a part of a ... |
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Author: Nancy Keeney Forster
"What a story, told with verve, insight, and a sense of history! I suspect it of being a classic." Mark Peattie, Stanford University. "One of the most fascinating and unusual memoirs I have ever read." Doug Merwin, Merwi ... |
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A Book of Memories
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Author: Dixie Lee Harris
This book details Harris's travels throughout the globe among common people through sixty-seven countries over twelve years. She stayed in a harem, wore a burqa, and slept on a sidewalk through the biggest battle in the ... |
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Professor Walter Ledermann is one of the great algebraists of the twentieth century. His memoirs begin with life in pre-war Germany, the murder of several members of his family, and of the joy he found in mathematics and ... |
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Teaching at a University in Northern Cyprus
Author: Chris Payne
Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it ... |
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Author: Richard Red Leaf
A SHOCKING BUT TRUE STORY! "DEMONIC STALKERS, POSSESSION, AND ENDTIME PROPHECY." Author Richard Red Leaf, writes of a bizarre, demonic inspired death plot in the early spring of 1944 resulting in the tragic accidental de ... |
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