A Son of the Middle Border
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| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| ISBN | 0295961902 |
In the spring of 1942, shortly after the United States entered into war with Japan, the federal government initiated a policy whereby 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and herded into camps. They were incarcerated without indictment, trial, or counsel - not because they had committed...
| Author | Heather Hansen |
| ISBN | 9781594858 |
Anyone who has stood beneath a redwood, neck craned to see its top rising far above; or who has heard ghostly whispers of residents long-past among the burnt-red cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde; or who has climbed the stairs to gaze out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown, would agree that our National...
| Author | William Kittredge |
| ISBN | 0679740066 |
William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a...
| Author | Reynolds Price |
| ISBN | 0743238540 |
Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as intimate...
| Author | Bernard Cooper |
| ISBN | 0395859948 |
Cooper offers his most moving and poignant effort yet. In a memoir at once affecting, witty, and dead-on accurate, he gives us the chance to accompany him as he reinvents memory - from Theresa Sanchez, the worldly and sophisticated girl who sat behind him in ninth-grade algebra, to the events surrounding...
A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the mammoth bone collection hoarded in the old red brick museum at the University of Nebraska, where he conducted his studies in anthropology. It was in pursuit...
| Author | Charles Alexander Eastman |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Kate Simon |
| ISBN | 0140263314 |
I wouldn’t’ve read this if it weren’t for a class, but this was a really good book! it reminded me of The Bread Givers which I read last year about a girl growing up in the Lower East Side. the sexual awakenings she had were spoken about in such stark detail and without emotion that I was a bit appalled....
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0671782185 |
3.5 stars
This is Graham Greene's first memoir, the second being "Ways of Escape" (Vintage 2002), in which I enjoyed reading 40 years ago. I still like its paperback copy with brownish paper and hope to reread it as a tribute due to my respect after reading his excerpt from "The Power and the Glory"...
| Author | Mary McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0156421852 |
I picked this up at the transfer station and though not a fan of memoir I'll give it a shot starting this evening. Read "The Group" many years ago and saw the so-so movie. Which one was the author? Shirley Knight(Hopkins) I think... MM was born the same year as my father and lost both her parents to a flu epidemic....
George Mueller: He Dared to Trust God for the Needs of Countless Orphans
| Author | Faith Coxe Bailey |
| ISBN | 0802400310 |
The book “The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans - George Müller” was written by Janet & Geoff Benge. It was published in Seattle Washington in 1999. George Müller led an amazing life after he stopped drinking and gambling. The author describes how there were so many miracles in Georges life...
| Author | Joel Miller |
| ISBN | 1595550747 |
“Quick in the saddle and fast out of town.” Watch one of America’s most remarkable heroes come alive through fast-paced prose and gripping storytelling.
He’s Famous for his Ride. He’s Essential for So Much More.
The story of Paul Revere is the story of the American Revolution.
Always...
Beloved Bride: The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife
| Author | Bill Potter |
| ISBN | 1929241631 |
He called her my beloved esposa because Anna was his dearest love on this earth. Ironically, while the great military exploits of General Stonewall Jackson are studied in military schools the world over and his iron will and stern self-discipline have become legendary, little is said about his remarkable...
The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors
On December 3, 2009, Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last living American survivor of World War I, testified before the United States Senate in support of creating a National WWI Memorial in Washington DC. The 108-year-old veteran’s visit to Capitol Hill was covered in-depth by the Associated Press...
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
| Author | John Higham |
| ISBN | 0813531233 |
Higham's work stands as the seminal work in the history of American nativism. The work is a careful, well-documented study of nationalism and ethnic prejudice, and chronicles the power and violence of these two ideas in American society from 1860 to 1925. He significantly moves beyond previous treatments...
| Author | Henry Miller |
| ISBN | 0811203212 |
Well, maybe not the best choice for getting re-acquainted with Henry Miller. All of the usual faults, as well as the good points.
Remember to Remember is not a novel--not even really a book. It seems to be a bunch of cast-offs put together after "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" and brought out...
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 0156031086 |
Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this...
This was a book I'm very glad that I read; it was also a fairly trying read in terms of its being unapologetic about pain, ugliness, the humanity of disgusting people, and the dark parts of good people. Allison is an excellent wordcrafter, storyteller, and a conveyor of important messages. My only issue...
| Author | Sybille Bedford |
| ISBN | 1582433518 |
Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).
Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation....
| Author | Mary Catherine Bateson |
| ISBN | 0060975733 |
In "With a Daughter's Eye," writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds new light on her parents' prodigious...
How Precious Was That While
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0812575431 |
Piers Anthony tells his own remarkable life story in this candid autobiography, a volume that is sure to intrigue and entertain his many fans-and infuriate his critics. The book begins with a review of the author's early years, revealing new and telling details about his upbringing at the hands of two...
| Author | Elizabeth Best |
| ISBN | 1742372953 |
The utterly compelling and inspirational account of how two very different writers tackle their demons walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the legendary medieval pilgrimage across Spain
Elizabeth Best had always wanted to go on a pilgrimage. Colin Bowles had never given it...
Lady Jane Grey: Nine Day Queen of England
| Author | Faith Cook |
| ISBN | 0852346131 |
Lady Jane Grey has often been called the 'Tudor Pawn' but to see her as one whose life was simply moved around by others is totally inadequate. This is no simplistic life and death of a sixteen-year-old girl. In order to understand the full tragedy and triumph of her life it is vital to grasp the far-reaching...
| Author | George Howe Colt |
| ISBN | 1416547770 |
From the bestselling National Book Award finalist, a masterful blend of history and memoir featuring the author’s four brothers and iconic brothers in history—the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, the Kelloggs, the Marx brothers, and the Booths.
George Howe Colt's The Big House is, as the New...
