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The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.
Author
Series
Fairy tale girl volume 2
Publisher
Spring Street Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"In the winter of 1982, long before she became the watercolor artist and author we know today, Susan Branch, 34-years-old and heartbroken from the sudden and unexpected end of her marriage in California, "ran away from home" to the Island of Martha's Vineyard hoping to gain perspective. It was meant to be temporary, a three-month time-out from the daily grind of being broken up and miserable, but within days of her arrival, alone and not quite in...
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Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal...
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Alexis Valďs escribe con profunda ternura sobre el nįo que fue y logra reflejar en estasp̀ginas no solo los ąos m̀s duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero tambǐn con una alegr̕a de vivir y la esperanza de que alg︢n d̕a todo ser̀ mejor. El pequęo Alexis es un nįo sensible y t̕mido, que vive con su madre, su hermano y su padrastro que le odia...
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