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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
by Catherine Foslmccarty braden is a southern white woman who in the 1940s broke from her segregationist past and became a lifelong crusader to awaken the white southerners to racial injustice.
Subway
by Christoph NiemannSpeed. Color. Sound. Numbers. Maps. Connections. Navigation. Subway systems may be specific to certain cities around the world, but the pure thrill of a subway ride is universal to all young children.Christoph Niemann’s graphically elegant and playful picture book is a tour de force for preschoolers and a stellar addition to the canon of books about trains, trucks, planes, and automobiles.Based on the author’s own underground adventures with his young boys—chronicled for adult readers in Niemann’s New York Times blog, Abstract City—this innovative picture book is an invitation down underground, where a system of trains and tracks delivers millions of riders to their destinations each day.“Underneath the city is this beautifully simple system of letters, numbers, and colors. The trains and stations are huge and impressive but also comforting, because nothing ever changes. My boys are in charge; they can read the signs, navigate the grid, and they always know what happens next.”—Christoph Niemann
Subway to California
by Joseph Di PriscoIn 1960, the Di Prisco family fled Brooklyn-and the FBI. The father was a compulsive gambler and small-time member of a crew that specialized in bookmaking. He knew too much about police corruption to stick around and break bread with federal agents who on Sunday afternoon tracked him into the woods of Long Island. He escaped at age thirty-five and ended up in a strange place called California, where his Brooklyn-born wife and two of her four sons eventually joined him. One of those sons, Joe, would be the only one in the family to graduate from high school, and he would come to make book of a different sort.He wasn't called to a life of crime, but the evidence is mixed. One day, Joe himself would be named the prime suspect in a federal racketeering investigation. This was somebody who, as a young man, lived as a Brother in a Roman Catholic novitiate. During Vietnam he was an activist who took over his college's administration building. He played blackjack professionally around the world, staked by big-money backers. He managed Italian restaurants with laughable ineptitude. He also did graduate study and taught for twenty years.
Subway to the Met: Risë Stevens Story
by Kyle CrichtonKyle Chrichton recounts the childhood and opera career of Risë Stevens (1913-2013), who was born in the Bronx and who sang at the Met in the 1940s and 1950s. As this book was published in 1959 and Risë lived to 2013, it does not deal with her post-operatic life. Major influences were her close-knit family, two singing coaches and her husband. She was especially famous for her portrayal of Carmen in the Bizet opera.
Succeeding With LD: True Stories About Real People With Ld
by Jill LaurenJill Lauren profiles amazing individuals who live with a learning disability and have effectively conquered their challenges to achieve success. These moving biographical sketches highlight the stories of a remarkable group of youth and adults who lead fulfilling lives because of their hard work, courage, and resilience. These inspiring people describe the resources they used to focus on their strengths and to persevere. Their poignant, real-life stories generate empathy and understanding in the community and stress the importance of a strong support network. First published in 1997, this new edition includes a 10-years later; update on each individual profiled.
Success Is 90% Spite
by Jane ZeiBased on the popular webcomic The Pigeon Gazette! Follow artist Jane Zei through the everyday rollercoaster of a quarter-life crisis—when high-flying optimism meets cold, hard adulthood during the journey from college to a full-time career.With favorites from viral webcomic The Pigeon Gazette, along with never-before seen comics, Success is 90% Spite is a reminder that there's nothing you can't achieve through hard work, persistence—and really wanting to prove someone else wrong.• A hilarious and high-energy collection that captures the all-too-real difficulties of life as a 20-something in a modern world• Comics follow Jane's endearingly awkward and whimsical efforts to navigate adulthood.• Covers a range of topics in both short, four-panel, and longer-form comicsWhen life gives you lemons . . . throw those suckers back into life's stupid face and make your own success.From choosing Lord of the Rings over love, to mastering pooping etiquette in the workplace, Jane's existential adventures are told with an extra dose of narrative imagination, extended jokes on inane topics, and daydreams.• The Pigeon Gazette has been featured in articles by Huffington Post, Bored Panda, and Buzzfeed• Great book for fans of funny webcomics, internet humor, and any millennial trying to make their way in the world• Add it to the collection of books like Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection by Sarah Andersen, Am I There Yet?: The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood by Mari Andrew, and It's All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I've Drawn It Instead by Ruby Elliot
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors
by R. D. Rosen“Powerful . . . [Rosen] makes us see how the Holocaust’s hidden children succeeded against the odds” in this #1 New York Times bestselling biography (Wall Street Journal).Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the war years believing she was an anti-Semitic Catholic schoolgirl, eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist. Flora Hogman, protected by a succession of Christians, emerged from the war a lonely, lost orphan, but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors. Unlike Anne Frank, Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her family in the home of Dutch strangers before becoming a psychotherapist and key player in the creation of an international organization of hidden child survivors.In braiding the stories of three women who defied death by learning to be “such good girls,” Rosen examines a silent and silenced generation—the last living cohort of Holocaust survivors. He provides rich, memorable portraits of a handful of hunted children who, as adults, were determined to deny Hitler any more victories, and he recreates the extraordinary event that lured so many hidden child survivors out of their grown-up “hiding places” and finally brought them together.“Rosen . . . tells the story of these women and the varied community of survivors with sensitivity and genuine affection.” —Library Journal“The three women at the heart of Such Good Girls have lived remarkable lives, and Rosen has limned them with both empathy and grace.” —Daniel Orkent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition/DESC>history;biography;historical;20th century;ww2;holocaust;survivors;Polish;French; Dutch;Jewish;survival;identity;trauma;child;war;refugees;Belgium;Poland; diaspora;emigration;United States;Righteous Among the nations;Nazi Germany;hidden;religious;identities;anti-semitismBIO038000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SurvivalBIO037000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / JewishHIS043000 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / HolocaustBIO006000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical9780062877994 Don’t Call the Wolf Ross, Aleksandra
Such Silver Currents: The Story of William and Lucy Clifford, 1845-1929
by Monty ChisholmSuch Silver Currents is the first biography of a mathematical genius and his literary wife, their wide circle of well-known intellectual and artistic friends, and through them of the age in which they lived. William Clifford is now recognised not only for his innovative and lasting mathematics, but also for his philosophy, which embraced the fundamentals of scientific thought, the nature of the physical universe, Darwinian theory, the nature of consciousness, personal morality and law, and the whole mystery of being. Clifford algebra is seen as the basis for Dirac's theory of the electron, fundamental to modern physics, and Clifford also anticipated Einstein's idea that space is curved. The book includes a personal reflection on William Clifford's mathematics by the Nobel Prize winner Sir Roger Penrose O.M. The year after his election to the Royal Society, Clifford married Lucy Lane, the journalist and novelist. During their four years of marriage they held Sunday salons attended by many well-known scientific, literary and artistic personalities. Following William's early death, Lucy became a close friend and confidante of Henry James. Her wide circle of friends included Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Leslie Stephen, Thomas Huxley, Sir Frederick Macmillan and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Such a Pretty Fat
by Jen LancasterA NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER: "To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter. Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It’s a health matter, and here on the eve of my fortieth year, I've learned I have to make changes so I don't, you know, die. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if I lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?"Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book. .
Such a Pretty Fat
by Jen LancasterA NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER: "To whom the fat rolls...I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter. Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It's a health matter, and here on the eve of my fortieth year, I've learned I have to make changes so I don't, you know, die. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if I lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?"Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer
by Jen LancasterA NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER: "To whom the fat rolls...I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter. Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It's a health matter, and here on the eve of my fortieth year, I've learned I have to make changes so I don't, you know, die. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if I lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?"Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
by Nadina LaSpinaA memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights movement.LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development—from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride.While unique, the author's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world—a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. La Spina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life’s story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rights.Written as continuous narrative and in a subtle and intimate voice, Such a Pretty Girl is a memoir as captivating as a novel. It is one of the few disability memoirs to focus on activism, and one of the first by an immigrant.
Sucia
by Bárbara MestanzaLa novela que expande la obra teatral revelación homónima de Bàrbara Mestanza que ha sacudido las tablas con su testimonio real de abuso, denuncia y redención. Esta es la historia de todo lo que tuve que luchar y vivir para lograr salvarme, para volver a conquistar algo que ese día dejo de ser mío: MI CUERPO. Este es un monumento en honor a mi cuerpo, el que me arrebató ese hombre, o quizá mi pareja, o quizá mi padre. Hoy os lo regalo, hoy este cuerpo es de todas.Este es un acto de amor hacia todo lo vivido después de ese incidente, un «give me five» en toda regla. Durante años he callado por miedo a esa pregunta que tantos me han hecho: ¿por qué no hiciste nada? Este libro es la respuesta, esta es mi oportunidad para hablar, por fin.Un conmovedor relato de valentía, brutal honestidad y capacidad sanadora. Bàrbara Mestanza, ganadora del Torneig de Dramatúrgia de Temporada Alta 2020, es actriz, cantante, directora y dramaturga. Su trabajo como creadora pretende sacudir al espectador con su cinismo y descaro, poniendo encima de la mesa todos los aspectos vergonzosos de nuestro sistema patriarcal. Se dio a conocer como cantante y compositora con el grupomusical y teatral The Mamzelles y por su trabajo en el mundo audiovisual como actriz. Entre sus éxitos como dramaturga figuran La mujer más fea del mundo, Pocahontas o laverdadera historia de una traviesa y Todas las flores. En Sucia, su primera novela, ficciona su el abuso que sufrió basándose en su impactante obra de teatro del mismo nombre que ha revolucionado la escena teatral y cuyo proceso de creación se ha transformado en un documental pendiente de estreno.
Suck And Blow: And Other Stories I'm Not Supposed To Tell
by Dean Budnick John PopperIn Suck and Blow, John Popper recounts his early days of musical discovery, shares a forthright assessment of his longstanding battle with obesity, and discusses a range of topics, including life as a gun enthusiast, the vibrant New York music scene of the late '80s and early '90s, his wide- reaching political views, and his romantic travails. <P><P>Throughout these pages, Popper calls some musicians out, praises others, and talks about his successes and failures in a self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud voice. At the heart of it all is his love for the harmonica, which transformed him from a failing New Jersey high school student into a Grammy-winning musician. This memoir will captivate both steady supporters and newcomers alike, through his signature honesty, humility, and humor.
Suck It Up Sunshine!
by Megan McIntyreMy life plan had to be altered due to my medical condition. I thought I'd marry my preschool sweetheart. I dreamed we'd have a boy and a girl, a golden retriever, and a white picket fence. I knew I wanted kids to be a part of my career from my early childhood. In my mid—teens I decided I'd like to be a child life specialist, providing play therapy to children in the hospital. When doctors diagnosed with Friedreich's Ataxia (a disorder that affects my balance and fine motor skills), my future plans took a turn into unchartered water. Life for me became more about living every moment to the fullest. My mind ran a mile a minute. Writing about my experiences, utilized my degree in psychology. I am ever hopeful my story would resonate in the hearts of people of all abilities. I dipped my toes in my creative juices, letting my emotions explode onto my computer screen. I wrote as a form of therapy, but soon realized I had the opportunity to reach more than a few family members and some close friends. Life tomorrow was never a promise, so ride the rollercoaster!
Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek
by Mac Montandon Olivia MunnSuck It, Wonder Woman! brings Olivia Munn's unique humor, incredible wit, and lightning-fast costume changes to a world that needs more scrapbooking, sea monkeys, and for the love of God, a freakin' hoverboard!In this hilarious collection you'll find essays like "thought's About My First Agent's Girlfriend's Vagina," wherein Olivia skewers what it's like to live in Hollywood. In "Sex: What You Can Do to Help Yourself Have More of It," she frankly gets down to the business of getting it on, including advice on how to appropriately wrap it and bag it. In "What to Do When the Robots Invade (Yes, When!)," Olivia offers valuable information on . . . what to do when the robots invade! And just when you thought she couldn't get any more geeky, she can. This book also includes such handy treasures as a timeline of great moments in Geek history, a flip book, an unofficial FAQ section, and a nifty (read: smokin') foldout poster.
Sucker Punch
by Scaachi Koul"Koul puts on a breezy and fleetingly filthy sideshow, but when she writes about gender and race she reveals that knife-throwing is her main act." —The New York TimesNamed by Vulture and Literary Hub as one of 2025's Most Anticipated ReleasesNamed one of Electric Literature's '48 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2025' From the cultural critic and bestselling author of One Day We&’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes a poignant, bitingly funny, and unabashedly candid new memoir in essays.Scaachi Koul&’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she&’d be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid pandemic hit, the world went into lockdown, Scaachi&’s marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Sucker Punch is about what happens when the life you thought you&’d be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her signature humour and fierce intelligence to interrogate her previous belief that fighting is the most effective tool for progress. She examines the fights she&’s had—with her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herself—all in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.
Sucker Punch: Essays
by Scaachi KoulThe long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today.Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she’d be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Scaachi’s marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.Sucker Punch is about what happens when the life you thought you’d be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her biting wit to interrogate her previous belief that fighting is the most effective tool for progress. She examines the fights she’s had—with her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herself—all in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.
Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young and Athletes
by Cristina Basso Gaetano Thiene Domenico CorradoThis text atlas focuses on the pathology and molecular genetics of sudden cardiac death in the young and in athletes, presenting the state of the art in the field as the basis for development and implementation of more effective prevention strategies, including, ultimately, molecular therapy that will cure the underlying biological defect. A wealth of high-resolution color images, accompanied by clear supporting text, are presented to document the anatomic pathology of the cardiac diseases most frequently responsible for sudden cardiac death in this population, including coronary artery diseases, cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, valve diseases, conduction system abnormalities, congenital heart diseases, and ion channel diseases. The role of the molecular autopsy in overcoming the limitations of morphological investigations and offering new insights and avenues for prevention is explained. The approach is, however, interdisciplinary, with close attention also to epidemiologic and clinical aspects. The authors draw throughout on their experience gained over 30 years in the course of a prospective study carried out in the Veneto Region, North East Italy. This text atlas will be of great value not only for cardiologists but also for geneticists, sports physicians, and residents in cardiology and pathology.
Sudden Death: The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos
by Brian Costello Leesa Culp Gregg Drinnan Bob WilkieA true story of hockey heartbreak, tragedy, and triumph. Limited time offer. Sudden Death brings to life the incredible ongoing saga of the Swift Current Broncos hockey team. After a tragic game-day bus accident on December 30, 1986, left four of its star players dead, the first-year Western Hockey League team was faced with nearly insurmountable odds against not only its future success but its very survival. The heartbreaking story made headlines across North America, and the club garnered acclaim when it triumphantly rebounded and won the Canadian Hockey League’s prestigious Memorial Cup in 1989. Many of the surviving Broncos continued their successful hockey careers in the NHL, among them 2012 Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Sakic, Sheldon Kennedy, and Sudden Death co-author Bob Wilkie. Years later the Broncos’ tragedy-to-triumph tale was overshadowed when the team’s former coach, Graham James, was convicted of sexual assault against Sheldon Kennedy, Theoren Fleury, and Todd Holt, all of whom played for him.
Suddenly We Didn't Want To Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine
by Elton E. MackinMackin's memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war in the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Suddenly an Englishman: 'The Life of Louis Hagen' and 'Arnhem Lift, A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment'
by Louis Hagen‘England is my home, and if someone asks me what I am – German, Norwegian, Jewish or British – I answer, “I’m an Englishman.”’In 1934, aged just 16, Louis Hagen was sent to Lichtenberg concentration camp after being betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid. Mercifully, his time there was cut short thanks to the intervention of a school friend’s father, and he escaped to the UK soon after. ‘The Life of Louis Hagen’ follows his adventures across the globe and the characters he met along the way, from the founder of the NHS to a Nobel Prize winner to one of the earliest animated-film directors, all told in lively and unflinching detail.Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 were captured – a bloody disaster in more ways than one. ‘Arnhem Lift’ is Hagen’s breathtaking and frank account of what it was like in the air and on the ground, including his daring escape from the German Army by swimming the Rhine. Indeed, it was so honest that Hagen found himself banished to India by his shocked commanding officer soon after its initial publication in 1945.Suddenly an Englishman is the complete story of the remarkable Louis Hagen, a German Jew who survived a concentration camp to become a decorated glider pilot in the British Army Air Corps. His first book, Arnhem Lift, was the earliest published account of the Battle of Arnhem while his accompanying autobiography remained unpublished – until now.
Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good: Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine
by John FordRetired Maine Game Warden John Ford has seen it all. He's been shot at by desperate prison escapees, been outwitted by wily trappers, and rescued scores of animals. <p><p> As a tenacious and successful warden, he was always willing to spend the time needed to nab violators of the state's fish and game laws. At the same time, though, he wasn't a cold, heartless, go-by-the-book enforcer; he usually had a good quip ready when he slipped the handcuffs on a violator, and he wasn't above accepting a lesson learned as sufficient penalty for breaking the law. <p><p> Ford is also a very gifted storyteller and he writes of his adventures in Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good, a collection of true tales, both humorous and serious, from the trenches of law enforcement, and also includes heartwarming accounts of his rescue of hurt or abandoned animals.
Suero de una noche de verano
by Enfermera SaturadaSatu, la Enfermera Saturada, la Florence Nightingale de las redes sociales, vuelve a la carga con un libro más ilustrado y colorido que nunca. ¿Habrá conseguido la plaza fija o habrá encontrado el amor? O, mejor aún... ¿tendrá ya taquilla propia? ¿Cansada de los interminables turnos de noche? ¿Tu supervisora no paga el bote del café y desayuna tres veces? ¿No soportas a esa compañera que se esconde en el baño cuando timbra el paciente aislado? ¿Tu tutora te manda tomar tensiones con el manguito que no pega? ¡No sufráis más! ¡La Florence Nightingale de las redes sociales ha vuelto a ponerse el pijama! Este libro no os sacará de hacer noches, pero al menos hará que las hagáis con una gran sonrisa. Bienvenidas de nuevo al mundo de la enfermería con humor,bienvenidas al mundo de Enfermera Saturada. ------- Pirámide de Maslow de los pacientes ingresados¿Tengo tensión?Me molesta la vía.Conozco a una enfermera que trabaja en este hospital (es bajita, morena...).Creo que hay aire en el suero.Llevo 4 días sin cagar (y me acuerdo a las 4:00 a.m.). Pirámide de Maslow de los acompañantes/visitasMi madre lleva 4 días sin cagar.¿Cómo funciona la tele?¿Está en esta planta Pepe el de Lucita? Lo ingresaron ayer...¿No le vais a traer nada de comer?¿A qué hora pasa el médico? ------- Opiniones:«Un libro muy bueno.»Paco. 74. Se arranca la vía y dice que se le ha caído. «Yo vengo al hospital para ver si me encuentro a la Enfermera Saturada.»Rosa. 37. Viene por vómitos a Urgencias y pregunta si puede comer. «Esta enfermera es de lo mejorcito. Mire, mire qué suero me ha puesto, ¡ni una burbuja de aire!»María Luisa. 56. Vive con miedo a que una burbuja le quite la vida. «Me he reído tanto con el libro que se me ha escapado un poco de pis.»Carmen. 94. Más años que saturación de oxígeno. En los blogs...«Un toque dramático que nos hará identificarnos aún más con una enfermera que realiza otro genial homenaje a su gremio, y que culmina con unos apéndice para que las lectores enfermeras puedan comprobar si son pueden ser unas buenas supervisoras.»Blog Me gustan los libros «Aunque sea un libro de humor la carga reflexiva es palpable y nos sirve para pasar un rato fantástico y hacernos pensar que no es poco.»Blog Libros en el petate
Suerte a favor: Una historia de la vida de una niña en Las Vegas de 1970.
by Marlayna Glynn Brown Iran Mendoza CardenasAmbientada en la glamorosa ciudad de Las Vegas de 1970, Suerte a Favor es la historia de lucha para alcanzar la madurez de una niña fuerte nacida en un continuo ciclo de alcoholismo y abandono. Marlayna desarrolla un poderoso sentido de autopreservación en contraste con los derrotados adultos encargados de su cuidado. Su profunda historia explora los personajes y eventos que pueblan su vida mientras se muda de casa en casa, de un padre al otro, de familia en familia, quedándose finalmente sin hogar a la edad de catorce. De los recursos de su extraordinaria infancia emerge una fuerza interna que encantará y cautivará a los lectores y permanecerá en sus consciencias mucho después de haber dado vuelta a la última página. *Ganadora del Next Generation Indie Book Award en 2013.