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Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement.
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Language
English
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A few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, Jaouad received a diagnosis of leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. After countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant she learned that a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it's where it begins. How could she reclaim...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The authors share their never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following Bob's traumatic brain injury after an improvised explosive device went off near the tank that he was riding in while covering a story in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A host of NPR's "All Things Considered" traces her ancestry in America's South and how it reflects the nation's turbulent efforts toward racial equality, a heritage that has influenced her awareness about character, silence, and integration.
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In her fathers Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mothers American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chickens neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half....
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Mead, a New Yorker writer, relocated her family to her birth city, London, in the summer of 2018. She was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. The move raised poignant questions for her: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself? Here Mead explores themes of identity, nationality, and inheritance, providing...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Language
English
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After journalist Spencer-Wendel learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, she embarks on several adventures. This includes taking her fourteen-year-old daughter, Marina, to New York City's Kleinfeld's Bridal to shop for Marina's future wedding dress-- an occasion Spencer-Wendell knows she will never see. This is her account of living a full life with humor, courage, and love, accepting death with grace and dignity,...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents a life of the African American journalist who was born a slave and went on to become a respected teacher and journalist, and who is best remembered for her campaign through her writings to eliminate lynching in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Con el candor de siempre y la honestidad y el humor que la definen, María Antonieta Collins relata cómo su carrera periodística se esfumó de repente pero regresó mejor que nunca. Escribe sobre el camino espiritual que la ayudo a superar una época oscura y como su fe la ayudó recuperar y mejorar su vida. Tanto los éxitos como los obstáculos en la vida tienen varias facetas - María Antonieta delinea paso a paso lo que debes hacer para maniobrar...
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Language
English
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When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go....
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells-who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader-as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Ethel L. Payne always had an ear for stories. Seeking truth, justice, and equality, Ethel followed stories from her school newspaper in Chicago to Japan during World War II. It even led her to the White House briefing room, where she broke barriers as one of the first black journalists. Ethel wasn't afraid to ask the tough questions of presidents, elected officials, or any one else in charge, earning her the title "First Lady of the Black Press."...
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Language
English
Description
". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Deseret News columnist Jerry Johnston shares an intimate and inspirational true narrative of adversity and redemption. Allowing readers to glimpse behind the curtain of his private life, Jerry recounts a time of deep personal challenge when his heart hardened and his thoughts darkened, a time when, losing all bearings, he turned from his faith. Although he is a man of achievement, his story is rather a story of God's achievement, how the Lord healed...
17) Once I was you
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""There is no such thing as an illegal human being or an illegal immigrant." Maria Hinojosa is an Emmy award-winning journalist and was the first Latina to found a national independent non-profit newsroom in the United States. But before all that, she was a girl with big hair and even bigger dreams. Born in Mexico and raised in the vibrant neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chicago, Maria was always looking for ways to better understand the world around her-and...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Emling draws on personal letters released by Curie's only granddaughter to show how Marie influenced her daughters yet let them blaze their own paths: Irene followed her mother's footsteps into science and was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission; Eve traveled the world as a foreign correspondent and then moved on to humanitarian missions. Emling also shows how Curie, following World War I, turned to America for help. Few people know about...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes a powerful, timely new memoir about growing up in the segregated South. Civil rights heroine Melba Patillo Beals puts readers right in her saddle oxfords as she struggles to understand--and fight back against--the laws that told her she was less just because of the color of her skin. Includes photos and illustrations"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes a powerful, timely new memoir about growing up in the segregated South. Civil rights heroine Melba Patillo Beals puts readers right in her saddle oxfords as she struggles to understand--and fight back against--the laws that told her she was less just because of the color of her skin. Includes photos and illustrations"--
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