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Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse...

The youngest of a large Norwegian immigrant family, Gudrun Thue Sandvold was known for her beaming blue eyes and a reserve that gave way to laughter whenever she got together with her sisters. She took immeasurable pride in her children and grandchildren, kept an exquisite home, and turned the most...

Your Complete Kay Francis Biography. This book is your ultimate resource for Kay Francis. Here you will find the most up-to-date 183 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you t

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The Real Daryl Hannah. This book is your ultimate resource for Daryl Hannah. Here you will find the most up-to-date 204 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Daryl Hannah's Early life,...

Discover The Success Of Jonah Hill. This book is your ultimate resource for Jonah Hill. Here you will find the most up-to-date 184 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jonah Hill's Early...

A heartbreaking story of loss and love. As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding....

In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s...

Behind Her Softly Sexy Facade Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department Captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly-tended garden of his wife, 48-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but that of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle...

A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and...

At the request of her children and grandchildren, Lillie Belle Parmenter Horn has written the following history and memoirs of her life. She had what few years of schooling were attainable in the 1800s. There was no punctuation whatsoever in the original manuscript which she wrote in long hand. She...

Early on an April Saturday in 1986 in a farm village in Ukraine, widow Marusia Petrenko and her family awake to a day of traditional wedding preparations. Marusia bakes her famous wedding bread-a korovai-in the communal village oven to take to her neighbor's granddaughter's reception. Late that night,...

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: B, University of Sheffield (School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics), language: English, abstract: The paper delivers a survey of American actor and director Woody Allen's cinematography....

Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...