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May Sarton confronts the pleasures and compromises of old age in this deeply moving memoir completed a few months before she died In this poignant and fearless account, Sarton chronicles the struggles of life at eighty-two. She juxtaposes the quotidian details of life-battling a leaky roof, sharing an afternoon nap with her cat, the joy of buying a new mattress-with lyrical musings about work, celebrity, devoted friends, and the limitations wrought...
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May Sarton's honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast May Sarton's journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences are raw, and her observations are infused with the poetic candor for which Sarton-over...
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¿Por qué no vimos la barbarie? Esa es la pregunta de fondo que se plantea Jorge Iván Bonilla. Es ella la que nombra las claves de toda la formulación de este trabajo, las que conciernen tanto a la especificidad de la guerra que aún desgarra a Colombia como al lugar desde el que se formula la cuestión que moviliza la investigación, esto lo visibilidad social, política y cultural de esa guerra.
Insertado en un proceso y un contexto precisos,...
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Presents the Internet blog entries of a young Iraqi woman living in Baghdad as she chronicles the hardships and complexities of daily life and the intricacies of the political situation during the first year of the Iraqi 2003 invasion. In August 2003, the world gained access to a remarkable new voice: a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, whose identity remained concealed for her own protection. Calling herself Riverbend,...
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This book is the first handbook about being contemporary and personal diary written by me. The calm of well-being, of inventions. The three-dimensional aspects of concrete and human objects, for a research in individual thought. A work that frees from stylistic commitments, mistakes are everyone's, the present must be represented but, without the fear of having made a bigger mistake than the previously accepted silence. By choosing a speech, it promises...
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American reader volume 31
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Brief collage-style essays that explore the ephemeral and fractured nature of life in the digital age.
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Extrait: "On ne rencontre pas certains êtres hideux ou haineux dont les instincts font horreur sans se demander pourquoi ce sont ceux-là qui ont une âme et les chiens qui n'en ont pas. C'est sans doute pour les passions à grand spectacle que les romanciers ont imaginé les déclarations et les aveux; l'amour n'en a pas besoin: la femme qu'on aime le voit, le sent, le sait; il ne lui déplaît pas qu'on le lui dise, mais cela n'est jamais nécessaire."
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Imagine being 20 years old, leaving your home to go to another country-alone and unable to communicate!
This is the story of a young man leaving his home in Sweden to find the "streets of gold" in America. There are seven journals that are rich in information about his journey. It includes the cost of living during the early 1900's, both monetary and personal. It is a story of hardship, disappointment, struggle, and limitless tenacity all done with...
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A collection of humorous, endearing, and sometimes tear-inducing real-life stories told in a way only Louis Romano can. From his young boy stomping grounds in the Bronx, we get real insight as to how the world, such as the Kennedy assassination, was seen through a child's eyes. We follow Louis on his schoolyard adventures and methods of survival of a rough neighborhood, and the wit he showed even at such a young age. Pranks, humor, and keen views...
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In 2018 Project Love launched their debut journal Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019, an end-of-year guide that helps you to say a proper farewell to one year as it comes to an end and create a vision and a plan for the year ahead. Since then, they have published a bestselling follow-up and are returning with the latest in their series. “Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021” is a guided journal full of prompts, exercises and inspirational quotes to help you reflect...
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The Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020 journal is an end-of-year guide for you to say a proper farewell to the old year and make the new year one to remember! Create real, lasting change and achieve 20:20 vision for 2020. This interactive journal helps you to plan and create a life you'll love in the year to come. Through a series of illuminating questions and exercises, you'll be guided to understand and realize the kind of life you want to live in 2020, the...
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“Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022” is an end-of-year guide that helps you to say a proper farewell to one year as it comes to an end and create a vision and a plan for the year to come. The journal was first launched by Project Love in 2017 and has come out every year since, with a brand-new cover and design to celebrate each new year. It is a prompted journal that takes you on a journey to reflect on the year you've just been through and then make a...
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The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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