Man of Fire: Selected Writings
Ernesto Galarza, Rodolfo Torres and Armando Ibarra
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Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Galarza (1905-1984) was a leading advocate for...
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
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Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine...
Lois Sonna (aka Batman) is tired of trying to be the kind of wife her husband expects her to be. She realizes this is not who she is and wishes to be free from the antiquated views of marriage and wifedom that her husband has.
She leaves her 4 children with her mother and heads for Mexico on Easter weekend and ends up securing a job and housing in Irapuato, Mexico.
She returns to the US to get her two youngest children and promptly heads back to Irapuato to move into their new apartment and report to work.
She soon discovers how different things are in Mexico from the battle to maintain more than 5 minutes of hot water, issues with plumbing, and the lack of American food choices to struggling to imbed some semblance of American culture in her childrens upbringing and making everything work out happily ever after in the end.
Due to unforseen (and not very well thought out) circumstances, she learns the Mexican ways of bribery and upcharging as well as taking advantage of the machismo culture of Mexico. This leads Lois to consider entering the world of smuggling goods from the US back into Mexico in order to make ends meet.
The memoir was written by Lois's oldest and only daughter, Linda Sonna, who recieved letters every week from her mother. The original manuscript was presented in letter form, but later changed to flow more like a story, with much of the writing taken verbatim directly from the letters.
This is a heart-warming, laugh out loud, and sometimes ridiculous story that can only be made sense of because it really happened.
Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
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On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder left his office hoping for a glimpse of President John F....
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Your House Will Pay in Books
Oct 29, 2019
Grace Parks is a pharmacist in a Korean pharmacy and lives with her parents. She has a strained relationship with her sister who left home and refused to speak to her mother thereafter. She won’t, however, tell Grace why she won’t talk to their mother.
When a terrible crime happens, Grace is confronted with another crime that happened 30 years before, and the Parks family are forced to face the Matthews family.
I really loved this book - the build up and the slow reveal was really well done, I thought. It looked at a part of American life that I, as a white British female, would have little personal knowledge of - other than what I’ve read. It was so thought provoking. This isn’t an escapist read, and I could feel the tension coming off the page, but it was a page turner that I didn’t want to put down. I read this on The Pigeonhole, so due to the fact that they released a stave a day for 10 days, I HAD to wait 24 hours for each instalment!
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for choosing such a great book for us to read!
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
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A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football...
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Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) knows little about family. Less about football. What the homeless teen...
A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura
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On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic...
