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A warm, witty memoir of a young family's rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s. A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped...
"A heroic biography of one of Scotland's legendary leaders, by a British novelist and former literary critic for the London Sunday Times" (Kirkus). Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle,...
One woman's "affecting and well-written" memoir of growing up with twelve siblings in rural Kentucky, and returning as an adult (Kirkus Reviews).Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine...
"For all animal lovers ... Few books ... approach the combination of fine writing, radical honesty, and endless optimism found [in these] veterinary tales." (Booklist, starred review)With insight and humor, Dr. Philipp Schott shares tales from the unlikely path he...
The tale of a college student's top-secret life: "A welcome addition to the seldom told story of the role of American women in [WWII] codebreaking." —The Spectrum Monitor The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college...
An indispensable memoir by the author of Goodbye to Berlin, one of the most prominent writers of his generation.Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left...
The propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street."[Paulina Bren] captures the feeling of the culture." —Maggie Lange, Washington PostA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Next Big Idea Club Must Read • One of UnTapped...
In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the mind of an autistic woman, sharing the trials and triumphs of a life before and after diagnosis.How might it feel to be autistic? Why are autistic and non-autistic...
A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost world"An animated tapestry." —Wall Street JournalBy the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost...
"Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people...
