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| Author | : Linda Greene Bennett |
| Publisher | : New York : iUniverse, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Television actors and actresses |
| ISBN | : 9780595668168 |
Not too long ago, I was at dinner with my husband and some of his business associates. Somehow the subject of "Hollywood children" came up and I confessed that although I was raised in Canada, I was, indeed, the daughter of a "star." "Who?" They wanted to know. "Lorne Greene," I said, really not expecting them to remember who he was. "Wait a minute," one of them said, "I thought he was my father." I am always amazed at the response I get from people about my father. To me he was a very private man with a public persona who happened to be extremely recognizable. To the public, however, he was larger than life, a hero, yet someone with whom everyone felt a certain warm intimacy. Today, some forty years after Bonanza first aired, he is just as recognizable as ever, to all the families who welcomed him into their homes every Sunday night for fourteen years and to all of those who still see him in syndication around the globe.
| Author | : Valerie Jarrett |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0525558144 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work" "Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."--Michelle Obama "The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history. When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama's trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was known as the one who "got" him and helped him engage his public life. Jarrett joined the White House team on January 20, 2009 and departed with the First Family on January 20, 2017, and she was in the room--in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and everywhere else--when it all happened. No one has as intimate a view of the Obama Years, nor one that reaches back as many decades, as Jarrett shares in Finding My Voice. Born in Iran (where her father, a doctor, sought a better job than he could find in segregated America), Jarrett grew up in Chicago in the 60s as racial and gender barriers were being challenged. A single mother stagnating in corporate law, she found her voice in Harold Washington's historic administration, where she began a remarkable journey, ultimately becoming one of the most visible and influential African-American women of the twenty-first century. From her work ensuring equality for women and girls, advancing civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system, and improving the lives of working families, to the real stories behind some of the most stirring moments of the Obama presidency, Jarrett shares her forthright, optimistic perspective on the importance of leadership and the responsibilities of citizenship in the twenty-first century, inspiring readers to lift their own voices.
| Author | : Marie G. Lee |
| Publisher | : HarperTeen |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2001-12-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780064472456 |
As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.
| Author | : Brenda Avadian |
| Publisher | : 1st Impression Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Alzheimer's disease |
| ISBN | : 9780963275240 |
Explains the history of the rodeo, important rodeo figures, and different kinds of rodeos.
| Author | : Diane Rehm |
| Publisher | : Capital Books |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781892123909 |
The NPR talk show host discusses her life, her career, and her battle with spasmodic dysphonia.
| Author | : Andre Dubus |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 1999-04-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0679751157 |
The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks. Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and Mailer, or the simple act of making sandwiches for his daughters' lunchboxes, Dubus cuts straight to the heart of things. Here we have a master at the height of his powers, an artist whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (The New York Times Book Review).
| Author | : Emerald Garner |
| Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1642598615 |
In this unforgetable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father’s cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence. She begins with the morning of July 17, 2014—a rare day off from work, one she had hoped to enjoy with rest and family, that quickly turned her world inside out. What follows is a personal account of the suffering Emerald and her family endured: unsympathetic camera lenses, the stares and whispers of strangers, and the inability to mourn in private. In addition to these vulnerable, personal essays, Finding My Voice includes conversations in which Emerald found inspiration, empathy, and community: politicians, athletes, and activists like Brian Benjamin and Etan Thomas; others who had survived similarly unfathomable grief like Lora Dene King, Angelique Kearse, and Pamela Brooks; and Emerald’s own family, Mrs. Esaw Garner and Eric Garner Jr. The book ends with a powerful call-to-action by author and daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz. With growing calls for radical transformation and accountability, Emerald Garner’s memoir is a story of family and community, and the strength it takes to survive, to stand, to speak.”
| Author | : Leigh Ann Walker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780998922416 |
Leigh Ann Walker's efforts to learn about her deceased father began in earnest five years ago, but really, the journey started in 1971 when Verlon "Rube" Walker died. He was the third base coach for the Chicago Cubs when he died of leukemia at just 42 years old. Leigh Ann was 3. It was a loss impacting the Walker family, their friends, the Chicago Cubs family and eventually people that Verlon (or "Rube") never even met. But his death was profound for Leigh Ann because he was "daddy" and she barely knew him before he died. The loss of his good night hugs, his voice, and his very presence in her young life touched every aspect of her life. Leigh Ann needed a way to face the loss and the resulting uncertainty of the father she didn't know. Her story chronicles her discoveries and reflections. It is a love story, to be sure, but also a detective story and a journey to the baseball family that called Verlon Walker one of their own. When Leigh Ann talked with her mother, uncles, former baseball players -- including Hall of Famers Ferguson Jenkins and Billy Williams -- and former batboys and coaches, she learned about her father from the people who knew him best and honored him with the Rube Walker Blood Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Verlon (or "Rube") was kind, smart, self-effacing and devoted to all the loves of his life - baseball, his wife and his daughter. Leigh Ann put the puzzle together of a man who was everything she'd hoped he would be. And while it didn't make her loss any easier all these years later, her journey toward learning about him answered the questions she needed to ask. This is a story for anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one and could never find a place for the grief to reside or an answer for the "why?" It offers a way to accept what happened and a realization that, as much as those losses hurt and always will, there is always a way forward.
| Author | : Nadiya Hussain |
| Publisher | : Headline Home |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2019-10-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1472259955 |
'A fascinating from-the-heart memoir' Nigel Slater 'A revelatory honest read' Red magazine font size="+1"FUNNY, HEART-WRENCHING, GENEROUS AND TRUE, IN FINDING MY VOICE NADIYA HUSSAIN SHARES THE UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE MADE HER THE WOMAN SHE IS TODAY.font 'I am writing this for everyone who was told no. 'No, you are not rich enough. No, that is not credible. No, you can't. No, you won't. No, you are not allowed. No, that is not appropriate. I was told, "No, you do not belong." Finally, I am saying, "Yes, I do."' From the moment Nadiya Hussain was born, she has been questioning her role in life. But the irony is, she never wanted to be a trailblazer. She just wanted to follow a 'normal' path. But life kept telling her 'you can't'. And so she found her own way, beyond anything she dared to dream . . . In this wise, witty, open-hearted book, Nadiya lets us into her life and, for the first time, shares the memories and experiences that have shaped her into the woman and role-model that she is today, alongside her personal recipes and the stories they tell. 'We all have a voice. Yours might be loud and strong, or quiet yet insistent. I have always tried to use mine for the right reasons.'
| Author | : Rebecca Thomas |
| Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2011-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1613460910 |
When Rebecca Thomas moved from her home on the island of St. Croix to Florida as a young girl, she entered a different world. One year later when her father was contacted to start a 'black' church in South Carolina, Rebecca began a struggle with her identity that would last for the next several years and test her courage and loyalty in ways she never could have imagined. As one of only four black students at her high school, Rebecca constantly fought to fit in. Her self-esteem fluctuated along with her weight, and the relationships she valued most, those with her friends and with boys at school, were shaky at best and emotionally abusive at worst. Even her church family, the very people who were supposed to help her grow, proved unreliable. After Rebecca enrolled in college, she continued to face anxiety over her racial and social identity, along with issues about her career and relationships in which the emotional abuse only got worse. In Finding My Voice, Rebecca deals with issues relevant to every young woman who aspires to live a meaningful life. Through the insecurity and frustration that come with growing up, losing loved ones and friends, and battling depression and panic attacks, Rebecca learns to rely on her faith. Only then can she finally be comfortable in her own skin and at last find her voice.
