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Goodbye, Antoura : a memoir of the Armenian genocide
When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care.
This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years—as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as he survived hunger and mistreatment in the orphanage. The Antoura orphanage was another project of the Armenian genocide: its administrators, some benign and some cruel, sought to transform the children into Turks by changing their Armenian names, forcing them to speak Turkish, and erasing their history.
Panian's memoir is a full-throated story of loss, resistance, and survival, but told without bitterness or sentimentality. His story shows us how even young children recognize injustice and can organize against it, how they can form a sense of identity that they will fight to maintain. He paints a painfully rich and detailed picture of the lives and agency of Armenian orphans during the darkest days of World War I. Ultimately, Karnig Panian survived the Armenian genocide and the deprivations that followed. Goodbye, Antoura assures us of how humanity, once denied, can be again reclaimed.
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Dream big : Michael Jordan and the pursuit of Olympic gold
From the age of nine years Michael dreams of playing basketball for the United States in the Olympics, and with hard work and his mother's encouragement, he realizes his dream.
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Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years
Abraham Lincoln spent a quarter of his life-from 1816 to
1830, ages 7 to 21-learning and growing in southwestern Indiana.
Despite the importance of these formative years, Lincoln rarely
discussed this period, and with his sudden, untimely death in 1865,
mysterious gaps appear in recorded history.
In Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years , Joshua Claybourn
collects and annotates the most significant scholarship from J.
Edward Murr, one of the only writers to cover this lost period of
Lincoln's life. A Hoosier minister who grew up with the 16th
president's cousins, Murr interviewed locals who knew Lincoln. Part
I features selected portions of Murr's book-length manuscript on
Lincoln's youth, published here for the first time. Part II offers
a series by Murr on Lincoln's life in Indiana, originally printed
in the Indiana Magazine of History . Part III reveals
letters between Murr and US Senator Albert J. Beveridge, a
prominent historian, about Beveridge's early manuscript of the
biography Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 .
Of all Lincoln's biographers, none knew his boyhood associates
and Indiana environment as well as Murr, whose complete Lincoln
research and scholarship have never been published-until now.
Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years preserves and
celebrates this important source material, unique for studying
Lincoln's boyhood years in Indiana.
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My brother Abe : Sally Lincoln's story
Forced off their land in Kentucky in 1816, nine-year-old Sarah Lincoln, known as Sally, and her family, including younger brother Abe, move to the Indiana frontier.
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Crossing Highbridge
Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Finding her way through the disorienting 1960s, after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, she set out on a kind of spiritual journey to recover what was valuable and life-sustaining in the Irish Catholic experience left behind. Writing her memoir meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt. Ultimately, Crossing Highbridge is a tribute to her father, for whom storytelling was an art of healing.
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Body Geographic
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband , Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate of Borich's story is Chicago, the prototypical.
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