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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Describes what life was like for servants during the historical period depicted in the television show "Downton Abbey," drawing on first-hand accounts to reveal how staff members were subjected to grueling labor, family secrets, and society scandals.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These stories encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions, and candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
x, 118 p. : ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work, resourcefulness, no tolerance for idleness or waste, family, and kinship.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided Berlin when protest and punk rock, bohemia...
11) Black Beauty
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Description
When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky-his first home is a good one where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
198 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1968 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Description
Paying homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary, this first-hand account of the album's impact on the LGBTQIA+ community captures a pivotal moment when those long silenced were finally given a voice.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Acclaimed author Kent Nerburn creates an incisive character study of a Native American elder, against the unflinching backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas. Nerburn draws us deep into the world of this elder, identified only as Dan, as we journey to where the vast Dakota skies overtake us and the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices. As this spellbinding story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
An award?winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till?a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett?s murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her 'second father' when she was placed in his care at age four when her parents left Haiti for America. So she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City, whom she struggles to remember--she has left behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known. The story of a new life in a new country while fearing for those still in Haiti soon...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Brokaw received shocking news: He had multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer. Friends had always referred to Brokaw's "lucky star," but as he writes in this inspiring memoir, "Turns out that star has a dimmer switch." Brokaw takes us through all the seasons and stages of this surprising year, the emotions, discoveries, setbacks, and struggles--times of denial, acceptance, turning points, and courage. After his diagnosis, Brokaw...
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared. Desperate to make a living for herself and the child she carries, Alice leaves the bitter cold of Chicago far behind, offering sewing lessons at a New Orleans orphanage. Constance Halstead, a young widow reeling with shock...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we...
Author
Publisher
Atria Espanol
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida. Sin embargo, lo que encontró fue a una madre indiferente y a un padre alcohólico y violento, en un país cuyo sistema educativo menospreciaba sus raíces. Reyna se refugió en las palabras. Su amor por la lectura...
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