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141) Child: a memoir
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1949, Judy Kurtz and Mattie Culp shared a bed, but when Judy needed stitches after a playground accident, the white child and Black woman were sent to separate, segregated, hospital waiting rooms. In 1956, Judy and Mattie discovered Elvis together--a white man dancing Black on the Ed Sullivan Show--but only Judy would attend his live concert. After Mattie's daughter, Minnie, rode in the local Christmas parade as her...
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so...
143) Moab is my washpot
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role in A Civil Action. Fry...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth recalls her emotional coming of age in 1950s New York in this profound and powerful memoir, a story of family, marriage, tragedy, Broadway, and art, featuring a rich cast of well-known literary and theatrical figures from the period.
From Bosworth-acclaimed biographer of Montgomery Clift, Diane Arbus, Marlon Brando, and Jane Fonda-comes a series of vivid confessions about her remarkable journey into womanhood....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from Nebraska.
Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among them.
While the rain and mist of an early March moved over the valley, then-Sergeant First Class Bennie...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Annette Gendler falls in love with a Jewish man in Germany in 1985, she knows their love has already happened--in her own family, no less. Her German great-aunt Resi was married to a Jew in Czechoslovakia before World War II--a marriage that created tremendous difficulties for the extended family once the Nazis took over. Annette and Harry's love, meanwhile, is the ultimate nightmare for Harry's family of Holocaust survivors. Weighed down by...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The Washington Century chronicles the hundred-year rise of the nation's capital as it grew to become the most powerful city in the world -- a story made vivid through the history of three very different families, each representing an essential aspect of Washington: the Cafritzes, headed by a real estate mogul and his consummate hostess wife; the Boggs family, a political force in the ultimate political town; and the Hobsons, lead by a prominent black...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Recalling her childhood in her homeland of Bulgaria as it existed under Soviet rule and her family's escape when the Berlin Wall came down, the author describes her return home to see how the world she once knew has changed since it became a member of the European Union.