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13 produkter
Truth Book
A Memoir
Av Joy Castro, Inc Skyhorse Publishing
Häftad, 2012
264 kr
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Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah's Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences. Nevertheless, Castro finds this tenet to be the most violated. Here, in her very own Truth Book, Castro bears witness to a childhood lost but a …
Family Trouble
Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family
Av Joy Castro
Häftad, 2013
344 kr
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Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any …
How Winter Began
Stories
Av Joy Castro
Häftad, 2015
253 kr
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IrÉne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town’s cruelest …
Tears and Flowers
A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
Av Feliciano Castro, Rhi Johnson m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
3117 kr
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A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived …
Tears and Flowers
A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
Av Feliciano Castro, Rhi Johnson m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
478 kr
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A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived …
Tears and Flowers
A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
Av Feliciano Castro, Joy Castro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1249 kr
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A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived …
Tears and Flowers
A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
Av Feliciano Castro, Joy Castro m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived …
Lives of Immigrants and Refugees
Tales of Migration, Hope, Grief, and Finding Home in Nebraska
Av Matthew F. Bokovoy, Lisa Guill m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
354 kr
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Human beings have always migrated. To be on the move, searching for a more hospitable climate, greater resources, and a welcoming community, is part of our human DNA. All kinds of large, uncontrollable forces—war, the threat of genocide, climatic changes, political exile, and economic …
Flight Risk
A Novel
Av Joy Castro
Häftad, 2021
245 kr
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A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family secrets by award-winning author Joy Castro.Isabel Morales is a successful Chicago sculptor hiding a brutal family history—one not even her husband knows. After decades of turning her back on her …
One Brilliant Flame
A Novel
Av Joy Castro
Häftad, 2023
132 kr
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A nineteenth-century utopia becomes a powder keg of political intrigue and betrayal in an enthralling historical novel—inspired by actual events—by the author of Flight Risk.Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial …
Island of Bones
Essays
Av Joy Castro
Häftad, 2012
218 kr
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What is "identity" when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. And you certainly won't find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro's unmoored life of searching and striving …
