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Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Hasta el siglo XX la Historia la escribieron los hombres. Eso explica por qué las mujeres apenas aparecemos como sujetos de las historias de la Historia. Sin embargo, la lista de aquellas que la protagonizaron es extensa: desde diosas hasta reinas, desde cortesanas hasta científicas, desde actrices hasta santas, desde escritoras hasta políticas... Hemos estado en todas partes, aunque un manto de silencio se empeñara en cubrirnos o ignorarnos....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bob Harig's latest deep-dive into Tiger Woods' thrilling career, as seen through his iconic 2019 Masters comeback and win. In April of 1997, the world of golf was forever changed. At the age of 21, a young Tiger Woods won the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, the Masters, by a record of 12 strokes. Woods became the youngest golfer ever to win the Masters and the first African or Asian-American player to win a major. History had been...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Isabella Stewart Gardners museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Bostons Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture."--
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp-from her own memory,...
5) Seven aunts
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Staci Lola Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history and reveals the true heart and soul of that history: women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic, cathartic diary of Dr. Cornelia Griggs - a young pediatric surgeon and the mother of two toddlers - as she worked on the front lines during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City's busiest hospitals"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
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