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Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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Language
English
Formats
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"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States, Talusan came to be...
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Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us all Across the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college campuses. Every day more survivors come forward. But other survivors choose not to. We Believe You elevates the stories the headlines about this issue have been...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yale University, along with the rest of the Ivy League, kept its gates closed to women until the class of 1969. The reason for letting them in? As an incentive for men to attend. Yale Needs Women is the story of why the most elite schools in the nation refused women for so long, and what the first women to enter those halls faced when they stepped onto campus"--
In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"You know that feeling you get watching the elevator doors slam shut just before your toxic coworker can step in? Or seeing a parking ticket on a Hummer? Theres a word for this mix of malice and joy, and the Germans (of course) invented it. Its Schadenfreude, deriving pleasure from others misfortune. Misfortune happens to be a specialty of Slate columnist Rebecca Schuman--and this is great news for the Germans. For Rebecca adores the Vaterland with...
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Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance...
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In September 1984, Lisa Paul, an American college student living in Moscow and working as a nanny, enters Inna Meiman's house for her first Russian language lesson. And so begins a two year friendship and fight for Inna's life. Swimming in the Daylight chronicles Inna's struggle to shed her refusnik status and to be granted a visa to travel to America, seeking medical treatment for the cancer that is slowly killing her.
Inna reveals an indomitable...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
8 books (xiii, 334 pages ; 25 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....