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Stringing rosaries: the history, the unforgivable, and the healing of Northern Plains American Indian boarding school survivors (Contemporary voices of indigenous peoples series #02)
By Denise K Lajimodiere, Denise Lajimodiere, Jamie Trosen. 2021
Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking…
of their experiences. Her research helped her to gain insight, a deeper understanding of her parents, and how and why she and her siblings were parented in the way they were. That insight led her to an emotional ceremony of forgiveness, described in the last chapter of Stringing Rosaries. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never shared before. She came to an understanding of new terms: historical and intergenerational trauma, soul wound. Stringing Rosaries presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous Americans, followed by sixteen interviews with boarding school survivors, and ending with the author's own healing journey with her father. Adult. UnratedThe never-ending present: the story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
By Michael Barclay. 2018
In the summer of 2016, more than a third of Canadians tuned in to watch what was likely the Tragically…
Hip’s final performance, broadcast from their hometown of Kingston, Ontario. Why? Because these five men were always more than just a band. They sold millions of records and defined a generation of Canadian rock music. But they were also a tabula rasa onto which fans could project their own ideas: of performance, of poetry, of history, of Canada itself. Barclay talks to dozens of the band’s peers and friends about not just the Hip’s music but about the opening bands, the American albatross, the band’s role in Canadian culture, and Gord Downie’s role in reconciliation with Indigenous people. When Downie announced he had terminal cancer and decided to take the Hip on the road one more time, the tour became another Terry Fox moment; this time, Canadians got to witness an embattled hero reach the finish line. Bestseller. 2018.American harvest: God, country, and farming in the heartland
By Marie Mutsuki Mockett. 2020
An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains. For…
over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett's father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family's fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth's crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as "the divide," inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals "not white," but who people she encounters can't quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story. Adult. UnratedConflict to combat in the South Pacific: a memoir
By Jim McDougall, Paul Nylander. 2018
This is the story of Jim McDougall's experiences serving as a combat aircrewman, ordnanceman and bombardier for the 7th Fleet's…
Black Cat Squadron VPB-52 in World War II - South Pacific theater from 1943-1945. Striving for accuracy, in addition to memories of his experiences and excerpts from his crewman's Flight Log, Jim obtained copies of the U.S. Navy Official War Diaries and VPB-52 Aircraft Action Reports from this time period. He wrote this memoir to help preserve the legacy of the Black Cats and to demonstrate why some people have such a deep feeling of love, respect, and gratitude to live in this wonderful country. --Amazon.com Adult. UnratedYam uas zoo nkauj tshaj plaws
By Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le. 2021
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kev zoo nkauj los ntawm qhov uas nws ib txwm xav tias yuav ntsia. Muab los ntawm tus neeg sau Kao Kalia Yang lub keeb neej me nyuam yaus tam li yog ib tug neeg Hmoob tawg rog, phau ntawv muaj duab no piav qhia txog ib tsev neeg uas tsis muaj nyiaj ntau thiab muaj txoj kev hlub loj heev. Kev muab Kalia zaj dab neeg hais txog ntawm nws pog tus nws hmov tshua los sib sau ua ke, phau ntawv no pib hais txij ntua thaum tseem nyob rau hav zoov hav tsuag tim Nplog Teb los mus txog rau lub neej thaum tsev neeg nyuam qhuav tuaj txog hauv Teb Chaws Meskas no. Thaum Kalia rais los mus tsis muaj kev zoo siab txog qhov yuav tsum tau ua yam tsis muaj thiab txiav txim siab tias nws xav zawm kaus hniav los pab kho kom nws luag zoo nkauj, uas yog nws pog uas tau pab ua kom nws pom tias qhov kev zoo nkauj tiag-tiag yuav pom tau ntawm cov uas peb hlub tshaj plaws. For grades K-3. UnratedMedallion status: true stories from secret rooms
By John Hodgman. 2019
After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own…
hand at writing. Following an appearance to promote one of his books on The Daily Show, he was invited to return as a contributor, serving as the show's "Resident Expert" and "Deranged Millionaire." This led to an unexpected and, frankly, implausible career in front of the camera. In these pages, Hodgman explores the strangeness of his career, speaking plainly of fame, especially at the weird, marginal level he has enjoyed--not only the surreal excitement of it, but also the drudgery of it, the emptiness of the status it conveys, and the hard moments of losing that status. Through these stories you will learn many things, such as what it's like to be invited to become an honorary member of an Ivy League secret society, only to be hazed and humiliated by the dapper young members of that club. Or how it feels when your TV gig is cancelled and you can console yourself with the fact that all of that travel that made your children feel so sad and abandoned at least left you with a prize: Platinum Medallion Status with your airline. Adult. UnratedOn Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde "Coco" Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write and…
to get into scrapes, and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: "I'm in deep trouble through no fault of my own," her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women's social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was still flying high. Coco's diary carefully records her adventures, problems, and romances, written with a lively wit and a droll sense of humor. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her mother's clothes or getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will captivate and delight preteen readers as well as their mothers and grandmothers. Peg Meier's introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, while an afterword tells what happens to Coco as an adult and reveals surprises about some of the other characters in the diaryMadness: a bipolar life (Instant book club)
By Marya Hornbacher. 2009
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted, she did not yet know the reason for her all-but-shattered young life.…
At age 24, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is. Here, in her trademark wry, self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. She takes us inside her own desperate attempts to control violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage, is at the heart of this brave memoir..--From publisher description. Adult. UnratedTwo gun Hart: lawman, cowboy, and long lost brother of Al Capone
By Jeff McArthur. 2013
Born in Italy and raised in Brooklyn, Vincenzo Capone left home when he was a teenager. He traveled with a…
wild- west show and fought in Europe during the Great War where he earned a medal for sharp-shooting. Upon his return, he settled in Nebraska where he went by the name Richard Hart. He married, had children, and worked closely with the local Indian communities. He dressed like the type of cowboy he had seen in silent movies, rode a horse, and wielded two six-shooters at his side, which earned him the name 'Two Gun' Hart. When the Volstead Act made alcohol production illegal, Richard joined the ranks of law enforcement and became one of the most successful Prohibition officers in the country. He chased down criminals, busted alcohol stills, and protected the Indian reservations he served, all under an assumed name. But his past caught up with him when his younger brother, Al Capone, became one of the most infamous criminals in the country. They were two siblings on opposite sides of the law, both ambitious and skillful, and both of the same family."--Back cover Adult. UnratedPerversion of justice: the Jeffrey Epstein story
By Julie K Brown, Julie K. Brown. 2021
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the…
explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong languageFarewell: a memoir of a Texas childhood
By Horton Foote. 1999
The prize-winning writer of drama and screenplays reminisces about his family experiences in Wharton, a small Texas town. Describes his…
parents' circumstances at the time of his birth in 1916 and continues until he leaves home at age seventeen to attend the Pasadena Playhouse in CaliforniaThe train robbing Bunch (Early West)
By Rick Miller. 1983
A factual history of the life of outlaw Eugene Bunch based on primary research, including court and family records. Although…
Bunch is often mentioned as a shadowy outlaw figure, this is the first account of his life, allowing the reader a view of the 19th century America of those who lived in violence. ViolenceInterlude in Umbarger: Italian POWs and a Texas church
By Donald Mace Williams. 1992
During World War II, in the Texas Panhandle, 3,000 Italian prisoners of war were interned in a camp. In the…
last year of the war, the prisoners' food rations were cut back, and only a handful of prisoners found a way to supplement their meager meals. Franco Di Bello, an Italian officer who spoke English, and a small band of fellow artists agreed to decorate St. Mary's Church in Umbarger. This is their storyA place in El Paso: a Mexican-American childhood
By Gloria López-Stafford. 1996
A memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s. The narrative begins as five-year-old Gloria, nicknamed…
"Yoya," faces the death of her mother and other unexpected changes which separate her from her beloved barrio neighborhood. The search for her place becomes a search for identity as Gloria seeks to understand her various homes and familiesThe lives and times of Bonnie and Clyde
By E. R Milner. 1996
The author cuts through myth and legend to reveal the truth about the infamous criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde. He…
traces their backgrounds, noting the events that bring the two outlaws together, and follows their violent path until their death in an ambush. Violence. For adult readersTexas cowboy
By Roland A Warnock. 1992
Subtitle: "The Oral Memoirs of Roland A. Warnock and His Life on the Texas Frontier." Born in 1896, Roland Warnock…
was a working cowboy on the huge Guadalupe Ranch in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas at the age of 12. He took part in trail drives, fought Mexican banditos and saw his father killed on the streets of Mission. His memoirs show the old west the way it really was. ViolencePearl: the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography
By Ellis Amburn. 1992
The author explores the life of Texas native Janis Joplin, one of the greatest rock stars of the 1960s counterculture.…
Through interviews with scores of people who knew her, the author relates Joplin's trendsetting ways in San Franciso's back-to-the-roots movement, and her ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame. Descriptions of sex and strong languageThe legend of Bear Bryant
By Mickey Herskowitz. 1993
Ten years after the death of Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant in 1983, this is a re-issue of Houston Post sports…
columnist Mickey Herskowitz's classic legacy of the remarkable coach who led both Texas A&M University and the University of Alabama. It is an honest portrait of the legendary football coach who was also one of the most complex and controversial personalities in the world of sports. Includes an Afterword written for this 1993 revised edition. Strong languageBig Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson
By Paul Keith Conkin. 1986
An exceptionally clear and fair biography of the President who has been called "America's last frontier President." LBJ's essentially paternalistic…
views of politics and of himself (Big Daddy) and the stamp of his Hill Country upbringing (from the Pedernales) provide historian Conkin with keys to the life of this difficult, tempestuous and brilliant President