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Memoirs of a Born Free

Malaika Wa Azania
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Author : Malaika Wa Azania
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609806835

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Apartheid isn't over—so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making her a "Born Free"—the name given to the generation born after the end of apartheid. But Malaika's experience with institutionalized racism offers a view of South Africa that contradicts the implied racial liberation of the so-called Rainbow Nation. Recounting her upbringing in a black township racked by poverty and disease, the death of a beloved uncle at the hands of white police, and her alienation at multiracial schools, she evokes a country still held in thrall by de facto apartheid. She takes us through her anger and disillusionment with the myth of black liberation to the birth and development of her dedication to the black consciousness movement, which continues to be a guiding force in her life. A trenchant, audacious, and ultimately hopeful narrative, Memoirs of a Born Free introduces an important new voice in South African—and, indeed, global—activism.

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah
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Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : One World
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399588181

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Born in the Big Rains

Fadumo Korn,Sabine Eichhorst
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Author : Fadumo Korn,Sabine Eichhorst
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781558615786

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Born in the Big Rains by Fadumo Korn,Sabine Eichhorst Pdf

The author describes her life, from her childhood living with a nomadic tribe in Somalia to her position as a spokesperson against female genital mutiliation.

Born with Teeth

Kate Mulgrew
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Author : Kate Mulgrew
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316334303

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Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred. Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary Stella Adler, she learned the lesson that would define her as an actress: "Use it," Adler told her. Whatever disappointment, pain, or anger life throws in your path, channel it into the work. It was a lesson she would need. At twenty-two, just as her career was taking off, she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Having already signed the adoption papers, she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child. As her star continued to rise, her life became increasingly demanding and fulfilling, a whirlwind of passionate love affairs, life-saving friendships, and bone-crunching work. Through it all, Mulgrew remained haunted by the loss of her daughter, until, two decades later, she found the courage to face the past and step into the most challenging role of her life, both on and off screen. We know Kate Mulgrew for the strong women she's played -- Captain Janeway on Star Trek ; the tough-as-nails "Red" on Orange is the New Black. Now, we meet the most inspiring and memorable character of all: herself. By turns irreverent and soulful, laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercingly sad, Born with Teeth is the breathtaking memoir of a woman who dares to live life to the fullest, on her own terms.

When Skateboards Will Be Free

Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Author : Said Sayrafiezadeh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141029825

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When Skateboards Will Be Free by Said Sayrafiezadeh Pdf

A stunning memoir of growing up in America as the child of would-be socialist revolutionaries during the twilight of Communism.

Call of the World

Bill Graham
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Author : Bill Graham
Publisher : On Point Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774890021

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Bill Graham – Canada’s minister of foreign affairs and minister of defence during the tumultuous years following 9/11 – takes us on a personal journey from his Vancouver childhood to important behind-the-scenes moments in recent global history. With candour and wit, he recounts meetings with world leaders, contextualizes important geopolitical relationships, and offers acute observations on backstage politics. He explains Canada’s decision not to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and makes a passionate case for why international law offers the best hope for a safer, more prosperous, and just world.

Something Fierce

Carmen Aguirre
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Author : Carmen Aguirre
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345813824

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail) A Globe and Mail Best Book [2011] A Quill & Quire Book of the Year [2011] A National Post Best Book [2011] A BBC Radio Book of the Week [October 2011] One of the CBC’s 15 Memoirs by Canadian Women Worth Reading [2015] Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria. Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.

Two Lucky People

Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman
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Author : Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226264157

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Two Lucky People by Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman Pdf

This "rich autobiographical and historical panorama" ("Wall Street Journal") provides a memorable and lively account of the lives of the Friedmans: their involvement with world leaders and many of this century's most important public policy issues. 26 photos.

Born Free

Joy Adamson
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Author : Joy Adamson
Publisher : Macmillan Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 190962148X

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. In 1961, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired and moved by its uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between Joy and Elsa. Rediscover the original story, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa and walked with the lions, in this new edition, with an introduction by John Rendall.

Alice Street

Richard Valeriote
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Author : Richard Valeriote
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773536548

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Alice Street by Richard Valeriote Pdf

The journey from an immigrant neighbourhood to the fields of medicine, finance, and academia.

Born Wild

Tony Fitzjohn
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Author : Tony Fitzjohn
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307716057

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Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya. Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. It shows how a man driven by an impossibly restless spirit can do almost anything, from being a bouncer in a brothel, to surviving a vicious lion attack, to fighting with the Tanzanian government, to being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen. A notorious hell-raiser given to scrapes with bandits, evil policemen, and wicked politicians, who has been shot at by poachers and chewed up by lions, Fitzjohn is also a wonderful raconteur. Shenanigans aside, he belongs to that rare species of humans who have sought refuge and meaning in a life truly dedicated to the restoration of the animal kingdom. Many times Tony Fitzjohn has put his life on the line for the cause in which he believes. Born Wild is the story of that passion.

Trust Me

George Kennedy
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Author : George Kennedy
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557839169

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(Applause Books). "These are memoirs of a kid born in New York City in 1925. His dad, George Senior, was a pianist, composer, and orchestra leader at Proctor's Vaudeville Theatre, and his mother, Helen, played in a classic dance troupe. Hanky-panky ensued. They married, and I soon was the result... I write like I talk. A long time ago I tried making 'talking and telling the truth' one and the same. That isn't just difficult; it means painfully reviewing things you've been led to believe since you were a child. That's very hard to do. Like many, I have marched along adhering to conventions (sex, color, church, party, gang) without examination. There's a wonderful, protective 'togetherness' in that anonymity. You obey or are damned, less joined together than stuck together. You become an echo rather than a voice. This book is about what happens when you stop fearing and think. I like writing, but warmed-over BS is not on the menu. You are the most important thing in life. Every phrase in the book awkward or not is how I think and question everything. I wrote every word as if we were sitting together. I want you to think, too..." George Kennedy, from the preface

Memoirs

Ahmad M. Kathrada
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Author : Ahmad M. Kathrada
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1868729184

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A fascinating book about a modest man who experienced a momentous life with a forward by Nelson Mandela.

Home

Julie Andrews
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Author : Julie Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 0753825686

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Home by Julie Andrews Pdf

Many know Andrews from "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins." In this memoir, she looks back on her early years with an aspiring vaudeville mom and a loving dad and her role in "Camelot" with Richard Burton at age 20. b&w photos throughout.

Born to Fly

Sara Evans
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Author : Sara Evans
Publisher : Howard Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501162589

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Born to Fly by Sara Evans Pdf

Discover country music star Sara Evans’s inspirational story about her rise to stardom, her roundabout path to love, and how her faith brings daily joy no matter the circumstances. Sara Evans—a Billboard, ACM, and CMA Award–winning country music star who’s been named one of People’s “50 Most Beautiful People” and competed on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars—has been inspiring fans throughout her successful music career. In this powerful, personal, and often humorous book, Sara opens up and shares stories from her career, describing what it’s like living in the spotlight and how her faith keeps her strong. She writes about overcoming life’s most challenging experiences, from a childhood accident that nearly took her life, to the loss she experienced when her parents divorced, and from her own painful and very public divorce, to finding incredible love when she least expected it with former pro quarterback-turned-sportscaster Jay Barker. Now, after over a decade of marriage, Sara and Jay’s blended family of nine is thriving, filling her life with focus and meaning. As she weaves the narrative of her life, Sara candidly reveals the things that are most important to her and her family now, her favorite tips about staying true to herself and her faith, knowing when to ask for help, abandoning perfectionism, and the importance of a strong support group of friends and family. Fans old and new will enjoy this inspiring, heartfelt book.