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The mango tree : a memoir of fruit, Florida, and felony
\"When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn't prepared to hear her mother's voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, 'Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes.' They immediately understood. Answering the questions of the breaking-news reporter--at the same newspaper where Annabelle worked as a restaurant critic--proved more difficult. Annabelle decided to go with a variation of the truth: it was complicated. So begins The Mango Tree, a poignant and deceptively entertaining memoir of growing up as a mixed-race Filipina 'nobody' in suburban Florida as Annabelle traces the roots of her upbringing--all the while reckoning with her erratic father's untimely death in a Fort Myers motel, her fiery mother's bitter yearning for the country she left behind, and her own journey in the pursuit of belonging.\" -- Publisher annotation.
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An Outcome Evaluation of the Success for Kids Program
This report presents results from a multisite, quantitative evaluation of the international Success for Kids (SFK) after-school program. A nonreligious program, SFK seeks to build resilience in children. Interestingly, the authors found that the program positively affected not just social and internal outcomes but also school-related outcomes, even though SFK is not an academic intervention.
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Women at War: The Civil War Diaries of Floride Clemson and Cornelia Peake McDonald
Jungker examines Floride Clemson's A Rebel Came Home: The Diaries and Letters of Floride Clemson 1863-66 and Cornelia Peake McDonald's A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War. She says that these journals introduce readers to courageous and spirited women spirited women, who fought their own Civil War battles without brothers, fathers, or husbands present.
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