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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly...
2) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons.Regina Calcaterra's memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Perry meets David Sedaris in this follow-up to Josh Kilmer-Purcell's beloved and bestselling debut memoir, I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS--another riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of his attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner on a goat farm in upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
This biography of the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court examines how she played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of underworld legend Albert Hicks, chronicling his mid-nineteenth-century crime spree and the plot gone wrong that culminated in an onboard massacre and manhunt in 1860 Coney Island.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
-Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. With Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything, and...
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st English-language ed.
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates in the 1690s. His three-year odyssey aboard the aptly named Adventure Galley would pit him against...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a child with polio in the early 1900s, swimming set Ethelda Bleibtrey free. The water released her from her pain and helped her build strong muscle--and a powerful spirit. From then on, from the New York beaches to the 1920 Olympics, Ethelda made a splash wherever she went."--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xv, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Giants beat writer Ralph Vacchiano examines the quarterback position in the NFL from all angles, using New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning as his primary focus.--Publisher description.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
NFL player Rob Gronkowski "takes fans from the field to the locker room to the VIP room to the talk show green room to his parents' kitchen table--a full tour of the world according to Gronk"--Amazon.com.
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