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Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959
by Dorothy StephensIn 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an exotic new world, facing safari ants, wild bees, and a vicious monkey, and discovering a core of strength deep in her security-loving soul. See Kenya through her eyes in its last tumultuous days as a British colony and witness the transformative effect on her life. Meet the emerging young leaders of the independence movement and the fascinating women who became her friends. Travel to Murchison Falls in Uganda and to Ngorongoro Crater in Tanganyika. Accompany her, with her house servant and three young children, on a three-hundred-mile drive to the Kenya coast through desolate bush inhabited by big game, a trip that had a profound and lasting impact.
Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story
by Vivian Gussin PaleyALL these white schools I've been sent to are racist," Sonya says. "I'd have done better in a black school. I was an outsider here." These are hard words for Vivian Paley, whose own kindergarten was one of Sonya's schools, the integrated classroom so lovingly and hopefully depicted by Paley in White Teacher. Confronted with the grown-up Sonya, now on her way to a black college, and with a chorus of voices questioning the fairness and effectiveness of integrated education, Paley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it. This is an odyssey undertaken on the wings of conversation and storytelling in which every voice adds new meaning to the idea of belonging, really belonging, to a school culture. Here are black teachers and minority parents, immigrant families, a Native American educator, and the children themselves, whose stories mingle with the author's to create a candid picture of the successes and failures of the integrated classroom. As Paley travels the country listening to these stories, we see what lies behind recent moves toward self-segregation: an ongoing frustration with racism as well as an abiding need for a nurturing community. And yet, among these diverse voices, we hear again and again the shared dream of a classroom where no family heritage is obscured and every child's story enriches the life of the schoolhouse. "It's all about dialogue, isn't it?" asks Lorraine, a black third-grade teacher whose story becomes a central motif. And indeed, it is the dialogue that prevails in this warmly provocative and deeply engaging book, as parents and teachers learn how they must talk to each other, and to their children, if every child is to secure a sense of self in the schoolroom, no matter what the predominant ethnic background. Vivian Paley offers these discoveries to readers as a starting point for their own journeys toward community and kinship in today's schools and tomorrow's culture.
Kweisi Mfume: Congressman and NAACP Leader
by M. Elizabeth Paterra"As long as the finish line is ahead, you always have the ability to shape your life no matter who are are," says civil rights leader Kweisi Mfume. He speaks from experience. As a youth lured by neighborhood street gangs, he threw himself into a life without promise for the future. Today, for Mfume, the sky's the limit. This inspiring story illuminates Mfume's pathway from street kid to college student, from radio announcer to political activist, from congressman to NAACP president. Mfume never forgets where he came from and he now dedicates his considerable power and influence to making America a better place.
Kyle Busch (Nascar Champions)
by Connor DaytonIntroduces the life and racing career of Kyle Busch, the NASCAR Nextel series Rookie of the Year in 2005.
Kylie
by Sean SmithKYLIE is a major new biography, telling the life story of Kylie Minogue, a true pop icon, now back on our screens in hit show The Voice. Everybody loves Kylie. No popular figure in modern culture deserves the description 'iconic' more than the star whose name alone evokes more than twenty-five years of memories. KYLIE charts the incredible journey of a complex and misunderstood woman from the suburbs of Melbourne, who was never the girl next door. She captured our hearts as Charlene Mitchell in Neighbours before rising to her position today as a member of music royalty. She is more popular than ever thanks to her acclaimed role as a judge on The Voice. Her phenomenal success was threatened in 2005, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The world held its breath as she braved surgery and chemotherapy before she was given the all clear. Her honesty and dignity throughout gained her universal respect and improved awareness of the disease among young women - the Kylie Effect. KYLIE is the essential book for those wanting to learn more about how she has continually reinvented herself - as teen actress, chart star, creative musician, sex goddess, gay icon, style queen and female role model. It reveals her true loves, the men who have brought her disappointment and those that have helped her achieve the status of most popular female icon of our times. KYLIE is an inspirational celebration of a star we should never take for granted.
Kyrie Irving (Amazing Athletes Ser.)
by Jon M FishmanKyrie Irving was a National Basketball Association (NBA) star before he played a game in the league. Kyrie was the first pick in the 2011 NBA draft, and Cleveland Cavaliers fans were anxious to see what the high-flying guard could do. Kyrie was ready for all the attention. He scored almost twenty points per game for the Cavs and was named NBA Rookie of the Year. In 2014, Kyrie won the Most Valuable Player award at the NBA All-Star Game. Read more about one of the NBA's best players.
Kyrie Irving: Uncle Drew, Little Mountain, and Enigmatic NBA Superstar
by Martin GitlinPerhaps no NBA player today is as exciting and yet enigmatic as Kyrie Irving. Martin Gitlin’s biography chronicles Irving’s brilliance on the court as a devastating one‑on‑one talent, examines the influence of his father, the untimely death of his mother, his growth as a basketball player in high school and college, and his journey in the NBA. Nicknamed the “Isolation Assassin,” Irving has earned the distinction as the most incredible isolation player in the league, outperforming rivals such as Stephen Curry and Russell Westbrook with his crossover dribble, drives to the basket, stop‑and‑go moves, and smooth, feathery jumpers, a distinction borne out, moreover, by his championship-clinching shot against Curry’s Golden State Warriors in 2016. Yet while he speaks of maximizing his talent, he has shown reluctance to maximize the production of his teammates by passing the ball, as well as his overall defense. Irving expresses his desire to win championships yet demanded a trade away from the franchise best suited to deliver him a second. Off the court there is no one like Irving either. An educated individual who claims that the earth could be flat and that dinosaurs perhaps never existed, Irving is a man of puzzling contradictions who seeks self-actualization and contentment through a variety of pursuits, including reflection, music, and acting. Gitlin, a veteran writer who has followed Irving’s career from the beginning, has much to tell about one of the most mysterious and sensational athletes of our time whose appeal transcends his sport.
Kyrie Irving: The Inspirational Story of Basketball Superstar Kyrie Irving
by Bill RedbanYou're about to discover the incredibly inspirational story of basketball superstar Kyrie Irving. If you're reading this then you must be a Kyrie Irving fan, like so many others. As a fan, you must wonder how this man is so talented and want to know more about him. Kyrie is considered as one of the greatest basketball players in the world and it's been an honor to be able to watch him play throughout his young career. This book will reveal to you much about Kyrie's story and the many accomplishments throughout his career. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Youth and Family Life High School And College Years Professional Career and Personal Life Legacy, Charitable Acts, and much more! If you want to learn more about Kyrie Irving, then this book is for you. It will reveal to you many things that you did not know about this incredible basketball star! Download today! About the Author: Inspirational Stories is a series aimed at highlighting the great athletes of our society. Our mission is to present the stories of athletes who are not only impactful in their sport, but also great people outside of it. The athletes we write about have gone above and beyond to become impactful in their community and great role models for the youth, all while showing excellence in their profession. We publish concise, easily consumable books that portray the turning points in the lives of these great athletes, while also giving the context in which they occurred. Our books are especially great for children who look up to sports figures. Hopefully these athletes can serve as a source of inspiration and their stories can provide life lessons that are practical for fans of any demographic.
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
by Lucasta MillerA lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë Myth ("wonderfully entertaining . . . spellbinding"--New York Times Book Review; "ingenious"--The New Yorker)."None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear"--L.E.L., "Lines of Life" Letitita Elizabeth Landon--pen name L.E.L.--dared to say it and made sure she was heard. Hers was a life lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L.--its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion.
L Is For Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
by Annie Rachele LanzillottoA 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.
L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir (SUNY series in Italian/American Culture)
by Annie Rachele LanzillottoFinalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography Category presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationThis vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father's lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on the stoop and watched the boys play stickball in the street; inside, she hid silver teaspoons behind the heat pipes to tap calls for help while her father beat her mother. At eighteen, on the edge of ambitious freedom, her studies at Brown University were halted by the growth of a massive tumor inside her chest. Thus began a wild, truth-seeking journey for survival, fueled by the lessons of lasagna vows, and Spaldeen ascensions. From the stoops of the Bronx to cross-dressing on the streets of Egypt, from the cancer ward at Memorial Sloan-Kettering to New York City's gay club scene of the '80s, this poignant and authentic story takes us from underneath the dining room table to the stoop, the sidewalk, the street, and, ultimately, out into the wide world of immigration, gay subculture, cancer treatment, mental illness, gender dynamics, drug addiction, domestic violence, and a vast array of Italian American characters. With a quintessential New Yorker as narrator and guide, this journey crescendos in a reluctant return home to the timeless wisdom of a peasant, immigrant grandmother, Rosa Marsico Petruzzelli, who shows us the sweetest essence of soul.
The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a Difference
by Erin McHugh Jennifer MayThere have been few cultural touchstones to open people’s eyes to everyday lesbian life—until now. Through fascinating interviews and stunning portrait photography, The L Life introduces us to the women who are changing our view of the world. This candid collection is a celebration of real women, alongside headline-makers such as breast cancer researcher and bestselling author Dr. Susan Love; groundbreaking authors Alison Bechdel and Ann Bannon; entertainers such as actress Jane Lynch and comedian Kate Clinton; Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and longtime activist Phyllis Lyon; award-winning film producer Christine Vachon; and many more.
L. S. Dickey and the Valley Horsemen
by Sandra McintoshThe life of and stories about legendary Saddlebred trainer and dealer L. S. Dickey during the first half of the 20th century, in a time that grew a special breed of American Saddlebred horsemen. The stories of L. S. Dickey and his proteges from an area in southern Indiana simply known as "The Valley". These men went on to play a very important role in the Saddlebred world.
La bell'America
by Anthony M. Graziano"This is a delightful, passionate and memorable rendition of a familiar and glorious tale. As the son of immigrants who were very much like Anthony Graziano's family, I was especially moved. Thank you for telling our story."-Governor Mario M. Cuomo"This kind of historical data is rare today. . . . A tapestry of history, biography, personal reminiscence, and lessons."-Michael Giallombardo, director/producer of La Terra Promessa"A sweeping narrative of European and American history, and a lovingly crafted reminiscence. Graziano is an excellent storyteller. There is something in this book for everyone, not least of which is a very good read."-Joan M. Crouse, author of The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression"Writing in the tradition of C. Wright Mills, who defined [sociology] as the intersection between history and biography . . . this book clarifies the tremendous emigration from Italy. A very enjoyable read, suitable for general readers and students of history and sociology."-Adeline Levine, author of Love Canal: Science, Politics, and PeopleA picture of Europe's nineteenth century and the massive Italian immigration to America: wars and conflicts, popes and kings fighting the people's demands for democratic government. When religion and royalty failed them, leaders created dictatorships and threw the world into bloody conflicts, killing hundreds of millions and virtually destroying Europe. Caught up were the poverty stricken, powerless common people who became the immigrants, pushed from Europe, pulled to America. Their history comes alive in the author's deeply personal account of his family's immigration and survival through the Great Depression.Anthony M. Graziano, SUNY Buffalo professor emeritus and Italian chef, has written fifteen books and fifty articles in the field of psychology. His brother, parents, and extended family emigrated from Italy. He says, "This book is a celebration of immigrants. It speaks to us because we are all immigrants."
La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
by Alina García-LapuertaThe adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, a socialite, a salon host, and a participant in the Cuban slavery debate. Raised in Cuba and shipped off to live with her socialite mother in Spain at the age of 13, Mercedes triumphed over the political chaos that blanketed Europe in the Napoleonic days, by charming aristocrats from all sides with her exotic beauty and singing voice. She married General Merlin in Napoleon's army and discussed painting with Francisco de Goya. In Paris she hosted the city's premier musical salon where Liszt, Rossini, and great divas of the day performed for Rothschilds, Balzac, and royalty. Celebrated as one of the greatest amateur sopranos of her day, Mercedes also achieved fame as a writer. Her memoirs and travel writings introduced European audiences to 19th-century Cuban society and contributed to the debate over slavery. Mercedes has recently been rediscovered as Cuba's earliest female author and one who deserves a place in the canon of Latin American literature.
La Boutique Obscure
by Daniel Levin Becker Georges PerecThe beguiling, never-before-translated dream diary of Georges PerecIn La Boutique Obscure Perec once again revolutionized literary form, creating the world's first "nocturnal autobiography." From 1968 until 1972--the period when he wrote his most well-known works--the beloved French stylist recorded his dreams. But as you might expect, his approach was far from orthodox.Avoiding the hazy psychoanalysis of most dream journals, he challenged himself to translate his visions and subconscious churnings directly into prose. In laying down the nonsensical leaps of the imagination, he finds new ways to express the texture and ambiguity of dreams--those qualities that prove so elusive.Beyond capturing a universal experience for the first time and being a fine document of literary invention, La Boutique Obscure contains the seeds of some of Perec's most famous books. It is also an intimate portrait of one of the great innovators of modern literature.
La Causa: The Migrant Farm Workers' Story
by Richard Larios Dana Catherine de Ruiz Alex HaleyDescribes the efforts in the 1960s of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize migrant workers in California into a union which became the United Farm Workers.
La cena dei ricordi
by Valerie Hockert Nicole StellaUna donna di mezza età ha recentemente perso il marito. Pensa che la propria vita sia ormai priva di significato e che lei sia inutile. Conserva dei ricordi in una scatola, quando le viene l'idea di organizzare una cena e di chiedere agli invitati di portare un oggetto che li aiuti a ricordare qualcosa--un fazzoletto, un gioiello, un piccolo strumento, un souvenir, un bottone, una locandina o qualsiasi altro articolo. L'idea è di far raccontare a ciascun invitato la storia dietro l'oggetto. Di certo non si aspetta che alcuni ospiti abbiano segreti così sorprendenti legati al proprio ricordo. Una vita precedente, un figlio perso, un incidente--molti provano tristezza di fronte al proprio oggetto, ma l'hanno comunque conservato per mantenere un contatto con la realtà. Dopo aver ascoltato tutte quelle storie tristi, la donna capisce che la sua vita non è poi così brutta e che il suo scopo, ora, è l'amicizia verso queste persone.
La compagna sciocca di Hitler. Vita e morte di Eva Braun, sgualdrina e sposa
by Borja Loma Barrie Corrado PastoreRomanzo storico. Biografia di Eva Braun, moglie di Adolf Hitler. Racconto di come si conobbero Hitler e Eva. La sessualità di Hitler. La vita quotidiana di Hitler. Hitler sconosciuto. La psicologia di Hitler.
La Dénazification de Leni: L'incroyable histoire de Leni Riefenstahl dans l'Allemagne nazie
by Lázaro DroznesCette fiction dramatique recrée le procès de Leni Riefenstahl, mené par le comité de la dénazification alliée, afin de déterminer leur degré de responsabilité dans les crimes nazis dans le cadre de la campagne de dénazification menée dans l'Allemagne de l'après-guerre. Différentes scènes de ses documentaires sont utilisées comme preuve contre lui, affirmant qu'ils avaient été utilisés comme des outils de propagande du régime. Leni défend son indépendance et son autonomie en tant qu'artiste. Au cours du procès, la relation entre les artistes et le pouvoir, la nécessité de développer une carrière dans l’art qui ne dépend pas du pouvoir politique et la possibilité de créer un art de l’art lui-même apparaissent comme un thème. Un art qui se justifie.
La disgregazione di tutto. Le storie di chi è sopravvissuto alla perdita di un caro, morto suicida
by Marilena Petrocelli Marlayna GlynnQuesta raccolta di storie vere vi invita ad osservare da vicino il processo di comprensione delle implicazioni che derivano dal suicidio degli altri e di come questo colpisce le persone care. Cosa succede a chi rimane in vita quando qualcuno si suicida? Come affrontano il processo di lutto i sopravvissuti? Che metodo seguono? Si riprendono mai da un trauma tanto profondo? Queste domande trovano risposta all’interno delle memorie scritte dalle 26 persone che hanno contribuito a questo lavoro. Probabilmente la più grande paura di chi è rimasto è di non essere stati abbastanza. Si può pensare di non aver fatto abbastanza, o detto abbastanza, o notato abbastanza o di non essere stati abbastanza. Ma non si commette un suicidio perché qualcuno non è abbastanza. Ci sono molti altri motivi, ma non essere stati abbastanza non è tra quelli. Al momento di questa stampa, le statistiche per l’anno 2010 (l’anno più recente per cui sono disponibili i dati) contano 38.364 suicidi segnalati, portando il suicidio al decimo posto per quanto riguarda le cause di morte degli americani secondo l’American Foundation For Suicide Prevention. Il numero di suicidi annuali negli Stati Uniti è il doppio rispetto a quello degli omicidi. Per ogni suicidio, ci sono circa sei sopravvissuti. Il che significa che solo nel 2010 negli Stati Uniti le persone che hanno perso un proprio caro per via del suicidio sono state circa 230.184. Secondo il Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nel 2010 negli Stati Uniti c’è stato un morto suicida ogni 13,7 minuti. L’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità riporta che ogni anno ci sono più di 800.000 persone morte suicide in tutto il mondo, per una media di un morto suicida ogni 40 secondi. Un morto ogni 40 secondi. Questo significa che nel frattempo che voi avete iniziato a leggere e siete arrivati a questo punto, qualcuno che prima era in vita adesso non lo è più.
La diva proletaria. Storia di Eva Perón e delle sue avventure Post Mortem
by Borja Loma Barrie Corrado PastoreRomanzo storico. Vita di Eva Perón. Sequestro e omicidio del generale Aramburu per mano dei montoneros. L'entusiasmo per Evita. Rivoluzione Peronista. Juan D. Perón. Le "cabecitas negras". L'odio dei paquetes argentini (i ricchi) nei confronti dei grasas (i poveri) e del Peronismo. Colpi di Stato in Argentina.
La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France
by Bronwen McSheaA rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society—and who would come to rule them both.Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, Marie de Vignerot was intended to lead an ordinary aristocratic life, produce heirs, and quietly assist the men in her family rise to prominence. Instead, she became a widow at eighteen and rose to become the indispensable and highly visible right-hand of the most powerful figure in French politics—the ruthless Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu was her uncle and, as he lay dying, the Cardinal broke with tradition and entrusted her, above his male heirs, with his vast fortune. She would go on to shape her country&’s political, religious, and cultural life as the unconventional and independent Duchesse d&’Aiguillon in ways that reverberated across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Marie de Vignerot was respected, beloved, and feared by churchmen, statesmen, financiers, writers, artists, and even future canonized saints. Many would owe their careers and eventual historical legacies to her patronage and her enterprising labor and vision. Pope Alexander VII and even the Sun King, Louis XIV, would defer to her. She was one of the most intelligent, accomplished, and occasionally ruthless French leaders of the seventeenth century. Yet, as all too often happens to great women in history, she was all but forgotten by modern times. La Duchesse is the first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot, putting her onto center stage in the histories of France and the globalizing Catholic Church where she belongs. In these pages, we see Marie navigate scandalous accusations and intrigue to creatively and tenaciously champion the people and causes she cared about. We also see her engage with fascinating personalities such as Queen Marie de Médici and influence French imperial ambitions and the Fronde Civil War. Filled with adventure and daring, art and politics, La Duchesseestablishes Vignerot as a figure without whom France&’s storied Golden Age cannot be fully understood.
La famille Fermanian: L’histoire du cinéma Pine de Sainte-Adèle (Biographies et mémoires #9)
by Stéphane DesjardinsIn 1948, penniless immigrant Philip Fermanian opened the Cinema Pine in Saint-Adèle, a movie theatre that would hold a unique place in the North American film industry. In this book, author Stéphane Desjardins tells the story of the Fermanian family, whose patriarch left Turkey during the Armenian genocide of the 1920s and settled in the Pays-d’en-Haut, where he hoped to farm the land. Stuck with a rocky plot of land, the Fermanians had to earn a living by the sweat of their brow and reinvented themselves by selling produce. The story takes an unexpected turn when a young woman from Saint-Adèle named Aurore (you cannot make this stuff up), accepts to marry Philip Fermanian on one condition: he will open a movie theatre. Their union produces two sons, only one of whom, Tom, will survive. Tom grows up in the family apartment above the movie theatre, his childhood resembling that of the Salvatore character in the film Cinema Paradiso. The Fermanians’ story evokes various important events in Saint-Adèle’s history, and the author’s references to the films shown at The Pine are a nod to the film industry and its stars.