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16984) Ginseng roots: 1
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"From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (author of Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Habibi, Carnet De Voyage, Space Dumplins) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms weeding and harvesting ginseng. The medicinal herb fetched huge profits in China and funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Comics, in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working-class trappings. For the first time in his career, Thompson is serializing his story....
16985) Ginseng roots: 2
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"From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (author of Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Habibi, Carnet De Voyage, Space Dumplins) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms weeding and harvesting ginseng. The medicinal herb fetched huge profits in China and funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Comics, in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working-class trappings. For the first time in his career, Thompson is serializing his story....
16986) No borders =: Kigliqangittuq
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The author accompanies her grandmother and great grandparents on a journey which crosses the border between the community of her birth and the lands of her ancestors.
16988) One bead at a time: a memoir
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The oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Mťis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder₂s narrative is told verbatim. Little Thunder established the first and today, the only all-women₂s Sundance in the world, securing a land...
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Witaj w świecie 97-godzinnych tygodni pracy. W świecie decyzji o życiu i śmierci. W świecie nieustannego tsunami płynów ustrojowych. W świecie, w którym zarabiasz dziennie mniej niż szpitalny parkometr. Pożegnaj się z przyjaciółmi i bliskimi związkami Witaj w świecie lekarza stażysty. Spisana potajemnie po niekończących się dyżurach, bezsennych nocach i pracujących weekendach książka komika i byłego stażysty Adama Kaya to...
16992) Clara's story
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The author describes her own and her family's experiences during the two and one-half years they spent in hiding in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II.
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"On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy. Thus began Darwin Payne's close involvement in covering one shocking event after another on this history-making weekend. Eyewitnesses he found at Dealey Plaza included Abraham Zapruder, who insisted from the first moments that the president...
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"Cancer Looks Good on You is the most uplifting cancer story you will ever read, because it is about a man who chooses to seize the day, not count how many days he has left. From his youth as a tormented gay boy in the Deep South to his rise to the top of the design world, and from discovering a lump in his neck to planning his after-party, Barclay tackles life's challenges with grace, humor, and indomitable optimism. Cancer Looks Good on You shares...
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"'I was alone on that icy cold December day when I received my worst news in 2014... I went for that definitive test, and I wasn't the least bit prepared to be diagnosed with an incurable disease... I didn't know what to do with a prognosis of just a few years to live, growing more and more disabled until I could no longer move, swallow and, ultimately, breathe. I looked for a book that would guide me through this process. I wondered what to expect,...
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"[This book] is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal story, Jefferson writes as a genuine American hero about what it meant to be an African American pilot in enemy hands, fighting to protect the promise of freedom. The book features...
16999) See you next Tuesday
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"This collection of diary comics features the ennui and wee of twenty-something Jane Mai whose emotions and art traverse the high and low. Moments of visual poetry and heartbreak are interspersed by bad body hair and bathroom disasters--much like life."--Amazon.com.
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