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Confessions of a Hayseed DA
(May 2022)
Robert R. Meehan - Author
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An idealistic, occasionally naïve and somewhat irreverent young attorney becomes the District Attorney of Rockland County, New York, in the 1960s and faces the challenges of figthing crime in a rapidly changing world.
In the 1960s, the small county of Rockland, north of New York City, went through a period of rapid expansion. Although beneficial, this explosive growth also led to t...(Read More) |
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Lives beyond Borders
(November 2021)
US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice
Ina C. Seethaler - Author
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Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.
A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders broadens and deepens critical work on immigrant life w...(Read More) |
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Black Women's Yoga History
(March 2021)
Memoirs of Inner Peace
Stephanie Y. Evans - Author
Jana Long - Foreword by
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Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.
How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of ensla...(Read More) |
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Djinn
(January 2021)
Tofik Dibi - Author
Nicolaas P. Barr - Translated and with an introduction by
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The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.
From a young age, Tofik Dibi feels “it”—a spirit, or djinn, that follows him everywhere. Where “it” goes, “they” go—his classmates, his colleagues, all the people who fear and hate “it,” his homosexuality.
The son of Moroccan immigrants, Dibi...(Read More) |
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A Survivor Named Trauma
(February 2020)
Holocaust Memory in Lithuania
Myra Sklarew - Author
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Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.
A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave under threat? How do we remember extreme danger? How do subsequent generations deal with their histories—wheth...(Read More) |
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When I Am Italian
(November 2019)
Joanna Clapps Herman - Author
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Can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?
“My ancestral Italian village in America was in Waterbury, Connecticut.” In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Clapps Herman takes a complicated and ...(Read More) |
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Battling Editor
(January 2019)
The Albany Years
Harry Rosenfeld - Author
William Kennedy - Foreword by
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Recounts the transformation of two daily newspapers in the face of economic downturns and sweeping technological change.
In 1978, Harry Rosenfeld left the Washington Post, where he oversaw the paper’s standard-setting coverage of Watergate, to take charge of two daily papers under co-ownership in Albany, New York: the morning Times Union and the evening Knickerbocker News. It was a particularly challenging ...(Read More) |
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The Truth of the Russian Revolution
(May 2017)
The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife
Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev - Author
Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva - Author
Vladimir G. Marinich - Translator
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Bronze Medalist 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the World History Category
Gold Medalist - 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category
An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English.
Gold Winner for History, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of...(Read More) |
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Creating Nonfiction
(May 2016)
Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers
Jen Hirt - Editor
Erin Murphy - Editor
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GOLD - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies category
A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
With a title that suggests both the genre and the process of composing it, Creating Nonfiction is a collection of essays and interviews that aims to open readers’ and writers&r...(Read More) |
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The Death of Fred Astaire
(May 2016)
And Other Essays from a Life outside the Lines
Leslie Lawrence - Author
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FINALIST - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography & Memoir category
When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.
As a child of the sixties, Leslie Lawrence knew she didn’t want to dupli...(Read More) |
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