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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world" --
Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions, her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir is a storied cookbook, a love letter to the author's tables in America, Europe, and Africa. From Philadelphia to Paris, Morocco to the Ivory Coast, Bologna to Greece to London, Always Enough tracks the cultural insights the author absorbed by shopping, cooking, and eating across the world, and provides 160 recipes learned across those kitchens. Always Enough's meals model adapting to one's environment and what...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya"...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, and insular woman who had survived abuse and abandonment,was often his only ally. Together they navigated a strained homelife dominated by his distant, gambling-addicted father and shared a seemingly unbreakable bond. When Corcoran left home to attend Brown...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of two brothers, one with Down syndrome, and their extraordinary journey of resilience and repair. Combining Manni's tender words with Reuben's powerful illustrations, their story of hope and resilience questions how we care for those we love, and demands that, through troubled times, we learn how to take better care of each other."--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. Having crafted his iconic Ziggy Stardust hairstyle, Suzi becomes the only working woman in David's touring party and joins The Spiders from Mars as they perform around the globe. Amid the costume blunders, parties, and groupies she meets her husband-to-be, Mick Ronson, and together they traverse the...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-eight years old, fit and handsome, John Blackburn was a former Air Force pilot and evangelical Christian. His wife, a veterinarian, healed animals and homeschooled their five children with the Bible as their textbook. The coming end of days was certainty, not poetry, and for John, the end did arrive -- cancer. The healing hands of his community hovered over growing tumors in his torso, but his disease continued to progress. At the time, no...
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