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A Final Reckoning

A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

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Series series Judaic Studies Series
A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly researchRuth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939.Gutmann’s compelling story ... Read more

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A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly researchRuth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939.Gutmann’s compelling story
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Slave Narratives: Indiana

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First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

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First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the
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Down to the Sea

by John Little ...

For over a century the Warren family has earned a hard and dangerous living, fishing out of Eden on the south coast of New South Wales. From the family's first fisherman, Old Ike, plying the coast in an open sailing boat in the late nineteenth century, to the Warrens today, using satellites and computers; from handlining to the brutal efficiency of purse seining, we witness a century of profound ... Read more

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For over a century the Warren family has earned a hard and dangerous living, fishing out of Eden on the south coast of New South Wales. From the family's first fisherman, Old Ike, plying the coast in an open sailing boat in the late nineteenth century, to the Warrens today, using satellites and computers; from handlining to the brutal efficiency of purse seining, we witness a century of profound
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Fool in Love

One Man's Search for Romance . . . or Something Like It

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The delirious pursuit of love is a search that inevitably takes us all both down the well-beaten path and into new, uncharted territory. In this collection of thirty-three heart-tugging and hilarious essays, celebrated Electronic Urban Report columnist Steven Ivory chronicles his lifelong quest for that thing we all crave: The Meaningful Relationship.The journey begins with his first love -- his ... Read more

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The delirious pursuit of love is a search that inevitably takes us all both down the well-beaten path and into new, uncharted territory. In this collection of thirty-three heart-tugging and hilarious essays, celebrated Electronic Urban Report columnist Steven Ivory chronicles his lifelong quest for that thing we all crave: The Meaningful Relationship.The journey begins with his first love -- his
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My Outback Life

The sequel to the bestselling memoir A Sunburnt Childhood

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Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border.Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm ... Read more

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Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border.Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm
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American Legends: The Life of J.D. Salinger

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*Includes a Bibliography of Salinger's works.*Analyzes The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's literary career.*Includes a Table of Contents."I love to write and I assure you I write regularly…But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. J.D. SalingerA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the ... Read more

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*Includes a Bibliography of Salinger's works.*Analyzes The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's literary career.*Includes a Table of Contents."I love to write and I assure you I write regularly…But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. J.D. SalingerA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the
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That Mean Old Yesterday

by Stacey Patton ...

An astonishing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who survived the foster care system and went on to become an award-winning journalist.On a rainy night in November 1999, a shoeless Stacey Patton, promising student at NYU, approached her adoptive parents' house with a gun in her hand. She wanted to kill them. Or so she thought.No one would ever imagine that the vibrant, smart, and attractive ... Read more

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An astonishing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who survived the foster care system and went on to become an award-winning journalist.On a rainy night in November 1999, a shoeless Stacey Patton, promising student at NYU, approached her adoptive parents' house with a gun in her hand. She wanted to kill them. Or so she thought.No one would ever imagine that the vibrant, smart, and attractive
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A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland

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A beautifully written Irish memoir about an extraordinary family.From the author’s great-grandmother Katherine Rose, who made her way from Stratford-upon-Avon to Lisburn as part of the Plantation of Ulster, and her forebear William Blacker, who founded the Orange Order, to her great-uncles Frank, Matt, Gerry and Jimmy Tipping, who were all active in nationalism in the 1920s, this astonishing cast ... Read more

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A beautifully written Irish memoir about an extraordinary family.From the author’s great-grandmother Katherine Rose, who made her way from Stratford-upon-Avon to Lisburn as part of the Plantation of Ulster, and her forebear William Blacker, who founded the Orange Order, to her great-uncles Frank, Matt, Gerry and Jimmy Tipping, who were all active in nationalism in the 1920s, this astonishing cast
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Mean Streets

Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver

by Peter McSherry ...

Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionA world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada’s largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, ... Read more

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Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionA world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada’s largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs,
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Queen

The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

by Nadine Cohodas ...

Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio--making music one way or another.Dinah's tart and heartfelt voice quickly became her trademark; she was a ... Read more

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Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio--making music one way or another.Dinah's tart and heartfelt voice quickly became her trademark; she was a
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African Queen

The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus

by Rachel Holmes ...

Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward ... Read more

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Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward
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Minik: The New York Eskimo

An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People

by Kenn Harper ...

The gripping true story of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity and belonging in turn-of-the-century New York City during the age of Arctic exploration“Impeccably researched and gracefully written, this is an essential book."–Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship FeverSailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with ... Read more

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The gripping true story of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity and belonging in turn-of-the-century New York City during the age of Arctic exploration“Impeccably researched and gracefully written, this is an essential book."–Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship FeverSailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with
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