What Do We Really Know About Herta Herzog?: Exploring the Life and Work of a Pioneer of Communication Research
Elisabeth Klaus and Josef Seethaler
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The book for the first time explores in-depth the life and work of Herta Herzog (1910-2010), an...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
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The #1 New York Times bestseller in a newly revised, expanded edition. With over two million copies...
You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President
Kurt Andersen and Alec Baldwin
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Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two...
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions in Books
Jan 3, 2018
Based on her experiences working as an interpreter for dozens of Central American child migrants, she speaks to those who risked their lives crossing Mexico to escape their fraught existence back home. To stay in the US, each must be vetted by the Citizenship and Immigration Services, a vast, impersonal bureaucracy. It's her job to help these kids, but in order to do so, they must answer 40 questions that will determine their fate.
The truth about the crossing may be much more brutal in reality, with 80% of women and girls who cross from Mexico to the US being raped, hence some of the children appear evasive when answering questions. But this book is fueled, in no small part, by Luiselli's bottles up shame and rage. She's aghast at the gap between American ideals and the way they actually treat undocumented children, yet her writing is measured and fair-minded.
Luiselli takes us inside the grand dream of migration, offering the valuable reminder that exceedingly few immigrants abandon their past and brave death to come to America for dark or nasty reasons. Fantastic read.
Never Too Late
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MTV reality star Amber Portwood's autobiography describes her shocking downward spiral and recovery...