Category: biography
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
A book review of Choosing Brave by Angela Joy
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Warrior Princess: the Story of Khutulun
by Sally Deng This picture book biography about the story of Khutulun is amazing. I truly love the art showing Khutulun wrestling with her brothers and other warriors. The horses and riders seem to flow along the pages and I would have been thrilled to have seen this book when I was a child.
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Procrastination 2013
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Happy Belated New Year! I started writing this a couple of weeks ago to post in mid-January – and it had been a while since I had finished the books then…. Some parts of my life just feel as though I am wading through quickly drying mud. A couple of weeks ago, I was going…
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Just Kids
By Patti Smith Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Harper Collins, 2010 Genres: Nonfiction, autobiography, biography, memoir ISBN: 9780066211312 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 279 Settings: Mostly New York City – Manhattan & Brooklyn – but also Paris & Charleville, France & Camden, NJ Time period: The bulk of the story is set between 1969…
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Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation
Story by Michael Keller, Art by Nicolle Rager Fuller Place: Publisher & Year: Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2009 Genre: Non- fiction, science, biography, history Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9781605299488 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 191 Setting: Earth Time period: 1831 – 2006 Plot summary: This book is a graphic version of Charles Darwin’s On the…
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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
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By Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto Place: Publisher & Year: San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 Genres: Non-fiction, ethnobotany, anthropology, autobiography, biography, traditional medicine ISBN: 9780062502551 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: San Ignacio, Belize Time period: 1980’s (1981- 1993, most of the book’s story is 1981-1987) Plot summary: When Rosita moves…
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Che : a graphic biography
By Spain Rodriguez ; edited by Paul Buhle Place: Publisher,Year: New York : Verso, 2008 Genres: Non-fiction, biography, history Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 1844671682 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 106 Setting: Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Congo, and Bolivia Time period: 1928 – 1967 and beyond Plot summary: The story of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s life…
Ra's Spiral Path 