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  • Italian Oakland

    by Rick Malaspina ...
    Series series Images of America
    Oakland, the other city by the bay, was a magnet for Italian immigrants in the early decades of the 20th century. Some relocated from San Francisco after the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire; many more came to Oakland predominantly from Italy�s northern regions of Piedmont, Liguria, and Lombardy in search of opportunity and prosperity. These pioneers worked hard, typically at backbreaking ... Read more

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    by Queen Liliuokalani ...
    The Hawaiian kingdom's last monarch wrote her biography in 1897, the year before the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States. Her story covers six decades of island history told from the viewpoint of a major historical figure. Introduction by Glen Grant. ... Read more

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  • Malcolm X

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    by Andrew Helfer ...
    Illustrated by Peter Handke ...
    "This stirring graphic-novel-style biography weaves together black history with the personal story of the charismatic leader Malcolm X" (Booklist).Assassinated at age thirty-nine in 1965, Malcolm X battled the horrifying legacy of African American slavery throughout his short life. With this thoroughly researched and passionately drawn biography, award-winning editor Andrew Helfer and acclaimed ... Read more

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  • My Grandmother

    An Armenian-Turkish Memoir

    by Fethiye Cetin ...
    Translated by Maureen Freely ...
    Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Çetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother’s name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915. A Turkish gendarme had stolen her from her mother and adopted her. ... Read more

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  • Tiaras and Tantrums: Twenty-five years in service at Kedleston Hall

    by Roy Adams ...
    Kedleston Hall, situated four miles north-west of Derby, stands in 800 acres of landscaped gardens and parkland. An outstanding example of the neo-classical style, the Hall was designed and built in the third quarter of the 18th century as a great showpiece for the Curzon family. The north façade, 107 metres long, is arguably one of the grandest of its kind in Britain.In the early 1960s Roy Adams ... Read more

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  • Around the World with a King

    by William N. Armstrong ...
    Around the World with a King, is an eyewitness account of Hawaiian King Kalakaua's journey around the world in 1881.William Armstrong accompanied the King as a member of His Majesty's Government and Royal Commissioner for Immigration. His account of this remarkable circumnavigation, the first ever for a monarch, is told with humor and insight, although not always with sympathy for the King's ... Read more

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  • Engineering Nature

    Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise

    by Jessica B. Teisch ...
    Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South ... Read more

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  • The Factory of Facts

    A Memoir

    by Lucy Sante ...
    The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how ... Read more

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  • Songs of the Unsung

    The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott

    by Horace Tapscott, William Marshall ...
    Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1943, learning music, and his early professional career. He describes forming the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in 1961 and ... Read more

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  • The Tao of Raven

    An Alaska Native Memoir

    by Ernestine Hayes ...
    In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile returns, then what?Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her ... Read more

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  • Greeks in San Francisco

    by Greek Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay ...
    Series series Images of America
    The history of San Francisco's Greek community is linked to the history of San Francisco. The first Greeks to arrive were sailors, miners, and laborers. By the 1880s, they had formed benevolent, civic, and fraternal organizations. In 1904, the first Greek Orthodox Church west of Chicago was established, and Third Street became the heart of the Greek community. The 1906 earthquake and fire ... Read more

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  • Will You Die with Me?

    My Life and the Black Panther Party

    by Flores Alexander Forbes ...
    Amid the social turmoil of the 1960s and ,70s, a young man in California found his purpose in the rise of the Black Panther Party, made a deadly mistake that cost him his freedom, and ultimately got his life back, having learned the true lessons of the Buddha Samurai.By the time Flores Forbes was twenty-five years old, he had just a GED and sixty college credits to his name. But he had gone far in ... Read more

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