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Through Donna Edwards-Hawthorne's personal life story, she intends to remind you that your hope will be the light in all the darkness. Having grown up in Jamaica, Donna narrates her tell-all tale about all the hardships in her childhood life, aiming to inspire you towards an attitude of never giving up. Why not be your biggest supporter and make it through life's darkest days instead of putting yourself down and struggling? After all, it will only be you sticking up for yourself till the end of time—no one else.

"Auf nach Italien - Eine wilde Achterbahnfahrt der Auswanderung" von Stef Smulders ist eine fesselnde und aufschlussreiche Memoire, die den Leser auf eine Reise durch die Erfahrungen des Autors beim Umzug nach Italien mit seinem Partner Nico mitnimmt. Vom Navigieren durch die Komplexitäten der italienischen Bürokratie bis hin zur Anpassung an die lebhafte Kultur des Landes teilt Smulders seine ehrlichen Beobachtungen und amüsanten Anekdoten über das Leben als Expat in Italien.

Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a scholarship student from the wrong side of the tracks, Lebanese-Cypriot Simone Amelia Jordan felt like an outcast among her peers for years. Her lifeline was hip-hop, then in its golden age. From girlhood, Simone recognised the art form's pro-Black consciousness, and the rappers' resonant words inspired her to embrace her own identity and back herself.

L'histoire vraie du Parcours des Baroumbayes de l'Afrique aux États-Unis" de l'auteur Noubaissem Baroumbaye est une histoire évocatrice d'immigration commençant dans son pays natal Tchad, à travers ses études théologiques au Cameroun, et enfin aux circonstances fortuites entourant son émigration d'Afrique vers les États-Unis.

Este libro retrocede noventa años y relata una serie de hazañas a cargo de inmigrantes salvadoreños que han aportado arte, solidaridad, educación, tecnología, creatividad, trabajo duro y sacrificio en la Gran Manzana y sus suburbios. Un punto de partida para que las nuevas y futuras generaciones transnacionales cuestionen de dónde vienen y construyan puentes positivos basados en el diálogo y la comprensión.

Gaia ha già diverse vite alle spalle. Nata a Bogotà e adottata a pochi mesi da una famiglia italiana, è cresciuta a Genova, animata dal costante desiderio di muoversi, viaggiare, esplorare. Per conoscere nuovi luoghi e persone, o forse per trovare un posto da chiamare "casa" nel senso più pieno del termine, un'identità in cui riconoscersi fino in fondo. Oppure, più semplicemente, per andare alla ricerca di quella felicità che tutti noi rincorriamo.

Si può crescere nella stessa città, camminare per le stesse strade, incontrare le stesse persone, ma vivere storie così lontane da sentirsi abitanti di due mondi diversi. Quella di Mohamed è la storia di un bambino che impara troppo presto a conoscere sulla propria pelle l'ostilità dettata dall'ignoranza, la cattiveria del branco e l'ipocrisia degli adulti. Un bambino dagli occhi grandi, pieni di sogni, che desidera provare quel senso di appartenenza e calore che ci fa sentire "a casa" e costruire un futuro migliore per sé e per la sua famiglia.

I'm living in the dream our great-grandparents envisioned for their grandchildren. Long-time Alice, Texas resident, my grandmother Abelina Ybarra Garcia and her niece Jesusa Ramirez Godines escaped the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War. Grand uncle David Ramirez sacrificed his life for the safety of his sister and niece, Abelina and Jesusa, at the end of a 500-mile journey on foot from Ocampo Guanajuato, Mexico. My elderly uncles recall a great love story on how Genaro met Martina Lopez from Seguin, Texas.

Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or "heteronyms," under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this "most multifarious of writers" (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.

The Fire and the Bonfire reveals a close–though also difficult–father-son relationship, and explores genocide through art, which leads to unexpected discoveries.

The memoirs collected in this book tell of an America where families and neighbors came together to help each other survive America's longest and deepest economic depression. These are memories of ordinary Americans of a time now nearly forgotten.

Clarence had seen tragedies and experienced physical abuse and brutality but was nonetheless fortunate enough to escape from of a war zone that was devastated by angry men who were searching to find identity in a nation filled with generational anger, hatred, and greed. Stories of ancestral war and tribal conflict left unresolved by their forefathers and elders returned to haunt their children, creating what would become the deadliest human catastrophe in the West African region.

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington...

A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself "A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood." —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood...

Lucienne S. Bloch's beautifully written personal essays explore her world on the Upper West Side of New York City. Growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Europe who longed for their former lives and culture, these essays explore her youth, her mother's Viennese upbringing, her father's work in the diamond business and long battle with Alzheimer’s, her typewriter, the landscapes of New York, her ongoing sense of alienation, and her development as a writer.

**The New York Times Bestseller** Now in paperback with a new chapter from Jada reflecting on the experience of writing and publishing Worthy, and the surprising conversations raised around sharing truth. ""[Smith] is candid and honest... For the first time she reveals the truth behind [the]...

From the rolling hills, to the close-knit communities, to steel mills and coal mines, the mural I paint of life in this unique and beautiful region is extremely vivid. Whether you are from Appalachia yourself or simply curious about this often misunderstood part of the country, I hope that my story will speak to you and provide a deeper understanding of the resilience and strength of the human spirit.

Mi sueño americano es el conmovedor libro de memorias del actor, productor y activista Wilmer Valderrama, que ahonda en su educación en Venezuela, donde fue criado por dos padres muy trabajadores, mientras su familia atravesaba un país en rápida transformación y el ascenso de Hugo Chávez...

A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer—the daughter of a forbidden marriage between a white American father and a Punjabi American mother—leased 10 acres of land in...

Nací en Lima, a los dieciocho años me fui a estudiar Diseño a Parsons School of Design en Nueva York. En ese momento, creía que iba a ser Diseñadora de Moda. Al año, me decidí por la ruta gráfica, y al siguiente, le agregué a la primera ruta una segunda: Literatura. Cuando me gradué, me prometí a mí misma escribir un libro cuando ya tenga algo interesante que contar.

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of...

Андреа Палладио (1508–1580) - одна из ключевых фигур итальянского Возрождения, зодчий, теоретик и знаток античной архитектуры. Пройдя путь от рядового каменотёса до архитектора, он соединил крепкие ремесленные навыки и высокие культурные устремления североитальянских поклонников античной классики, в круг которых был введён гуманистами Дж. Триссино и Д. Барбаро. Наиболее знамениты спроектированные им в Виченце вилла Альмерико Капра Ла-Ротонда, базилика Палладиана, театр Олимпико, собор Сан-Джорджо Маджоре в Венеции.

Estela Casas is El Paso’s daughter. Viewers of the nightly news turned to her for comfort in times of tragedy. So when Estela was faced with her own setback, she turned to them. Estela led strangers on a very public and intimate journey with bilateral breast cancer, and turned her trials into everyone’s triumph. Estela allowed cancer to transform her and helped her find a place to anchor.

This historical narrative reveals the life of Linda, a young woman struggling to come to grips with her rudderless existence, of her stumbling back to her hometown after a failed marriage, and having to face the judgments of a stoic Japanese mother. Chieko’s life is in stark contrast, having survived the most horrific last days of World War II, and having come of age in occupied Japan where she made a living working in a hostess club serving drinks and dancing with servicemen. Linda wants to write her mother’s story, and Chieko always says no.

Флоренция - как много в этом слове... История города многогранна, богата на события, интересна, захватывающа и местами трагична. Эта дочь Римской империи подарила всему миру один из самых лучших периодов в истории искусства - эпоху Возрождения. Но не всё было так гладко, и Флоренция умеет взращивать прекрасное на, казалось бы, самой неблагоприятной почве. В этой книге обнажено то, что скрывается за красивыми фресками в семейных часовнях, роскошными рыцарскими турнирами, фасадами дворцов и скульптурами; аккуратно пролистана "история болезни".

Первая часть Кодекс чести русского офицера. В русской армии офицерское звание всегда определяло принадлежность не к социальной группе, но к касте, которая жила по своим неписаным законам - по кодексу чести. В том случае, если уложения армейских уставов вступали в конфликт с положениями кодекса, выбор офицера был очевиден - в пользу кодекса чести. Офицерский суд чести был авторитетней военного трибунала, "ибо лучше быть сосланным, разжалованным, чем утратить достоинство".

What do we have inside? What do we want to show, or hide. TIm Hakadosh—immigrant from dark Soviet lands, is saying something.

This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans). Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood...

Being born in poverty with all odds against him—poor, Black, and male—made Che' fair game to the savagery of what was deemed the worst ghetto in America: 1970s The Bronx, NY, home to the infamously corrupt Fort Apache police department. But if surviving that concrete jungle as a child is not inspiring enough, consider his fight against being branded as an "offender", stripped of all credibility, flogged, fired, and humiliated by being listed on the most villainous of public registries, congruent with being dragged through the one of the most scandalous criminal justice systems in America!

Biography of a man immigrating from Africa to the United States.