Author: Lauren Dittmer
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Lily is embarking on a backpacking trip across South America. She is nineteen, travelling alone, and every bit a gringa girl. Her journal tells a story of love and heartbreak, failure and triumph, and all the bizarre, thrilling, humiliating and exhausting delights in between on the journey to finding herself, which is of course the ultimate goal of any Gap Year. Based (probably too honestly) on true events.
Author: Caroline Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250139309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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A fresh, unique insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman aviator in today’s US Navy—from pedicures to parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Officer. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and one of the first women to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insider’s view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator. This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged woman who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet Girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harm’s way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran. Some of the most memorable parts of the book are about real life in training, in the air and in combat—how do you deal with having to pee in a cockpit the size of a bumper car going 600 miles an hour? Not just a memoir, this book also aims to change the conversation and to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women who are tempted to explore a life of adventure and service.
Author: Maria Hinojosa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982128666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807006629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing—a rare and unforgettable journey set along the US–Mexico border about identity, immigration, and “the new underground railroad.” “Jones’s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.”—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. In Mosquito, she examines the US–Mexico border crisis through the eyes of Sojourner Nadine Jane Johnson, an African American truck driver known as Mosquito. Her journey beings after discovering a stowaway who nearly gives birth in the back of her truck, sparking her accidental and yet growing involvement in “the new underground railroad,” a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants. As Mosquito’s understanding of the immigrants’s need to forge new lives and identities deepens, so too does Mosquito’s romance with Ray, a gentle revolutionary, philosopher, and, perhaps, a priest. Along the road, Mosquito introduces us to Delgadina, a Chicana bartender who fries cactus, writes haunting stories, and studies to become a detective; Monkey Bread, a childhood pal who is, improbably, assistant to a blonde star in Hollywood; Maria, the stowaway who names her baby Journal, a misspelled tribute to her unwitting benefactor Sojourner; and many more.
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822217565
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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THE STORY: In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter , Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter A is
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: Ed Teja
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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A Fast-Paced Caribbean Adventure! Martin’s hunt for a missing businessman in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela escalates into a deadly competition. Corrupt cops, an assassin, and a former British spy all have strong motivations to locate him—and he seems to be the only one who cares about finding him alive. His wife is the only one indifferent to where he is. The rest think he’ll lead them to missing money. Martin has to find him first, and he best do it long before Ugly Bill gets tired of him playing detective. An action-packed tale of those who walk in the dark.
Author: Ed Teja
Publisher: Float Street Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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Changing the world isn't easy. Martin Billings joined the SEALs to do good, to make the world a safter place. But the world is complicated and being told you don't need to know things didn't work out well for him. Reluctantly resigning, he found that while leaving the SEALS was hard; working as a freighter captain in the Caribbean didn't turn out to be much easier... he can't seem to leave trouble behind. Too many bad people and so little time. These are the first three stories in the series.
Author: Mariella Espinoza-Herold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315392259
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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This critical case study exposes the educational realities of Latinos in K-12 public schools in the Western United States from the students’ own perspectives. Issues that are often over simplified and commonly misunderstood are brought to life. Their accounts are then compared with the viewpoints of a range of K-12 teachers on matters of community, learning, race, culture, and school politics.
Author: Mary Stewart Heather
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491775475
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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The twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first century witnessed economic and social upheaval perhaps unprecedented in history. Against this backdrop of drought and depression, Texas Girl reviews these changes from the perspective of a woman who has experienced them, revealing her hopes, frustrations, joys and despairs as she relates the day-to-day occurrences that are a part of family life.
