Collection of essays on the use of Braille
Biography
- Author:Pierce, Barbara edSummary:
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up...
- Author:Arrowsmith-Young, BarbaraSummary:
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn-or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually...
- Author:Price, JillSummary:
Jill Price cannot forget anything. Ask her what she had for breakfast on any given day in 1970, and she'll tell you. She'll even tell you the major news events for that day. In this astonishing memoir, she shares what it'...
- Author:Kingston, Maxine HongSummary:
- Author:Brinkley, DouglasSummary:
Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early...
- Author:Freedman, RussellSummary:
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
- Author:BIN LADIN, CarmenSummary:
On September llth 2001, Carmen Bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her brother-in-law's name would be linked to these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to...
- Author:Alfano, MichelleSummary:
No parent is prepared for the moment when her daughter comes out to her--not as a lesbian, but as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate...
- Author:Klein, EdwardSummary:
Klein reveals the truth about a woman who has managed to keep much of her life private. Drawing from inside sources, he reveals a reality of Hillary's turbulent marriage and exposes what she and Bill have done behind closed doors....
- Author:Haigh, J. C.Summary:
The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this...
- Author:Moehringer, J. R.Summary:
J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a clock radio, straining to hear in that...
- Author:Coburn, Davin, Bakos, NadaSummary:
Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, this memoir shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of...
- Author:HARRIS, A.M.Summary:
After three years of war, the tall man knew the shell-pocked ground in Korea as well as he knew the Blue Mountains of his home outside Sydney. The tall man had to organize more missions, to send more patriots behind enemy lines, but...
- Author:O'Faolain, NualaSummary:
Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and...
- Author:Richardson, Jael EaleySummary:
Describes the childhood of Chuck Ealey, who dreamed of becoming a football quarterback despite the prejudices he faced as an African American.
- Author:Steinman, LouiseSummary:
Among her late parents' belongings, Steinman discovers a rusty ammo box holding almost five hundred letters written by her father during his service in World War II. It also contains a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu...
- Author:Jonker, Peter MarinusSummary:
This is the story of the fascinating and challenging life of Stoney chief Frank Kaquitts--Sitting Wind. It includes his time as an actor, when he played Sitting Bull opposite Paul Newman in Buffalo Bill and the Indians. This award-...
- Author:Kirsch, SharonSummary:
"A lantern slide, a faded recipe book, a postcard from Mexico, a nugget of fool's gold -- such are the clues available to the narrator of The Smallest Objective as she excavates for buried treasure in her family home. Together...
- Author:McKervill, Hugh W.Summary:
The author first set foot in sparsely populated northern Saskatchewan in 1955, having little idea of the adventures ahead and the bonds he would forge in this land of mud, mosquitoes and pioneers. McKervill offers a vivid and...