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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe, a Coast Salish indigenous woman, has always longed for a sense of home. As a child her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. As an adolescent determined to escape the poverty and abuse of her childhood in order to build a better future for herself and her people, Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, with little more to guide...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After surviving the failed chicken farm-and marriage-immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. Anybody Can Do Anything recounts Betty's hilarious attempts to find work during the Great Depression, all with the help of her older sister Mary"--Cover, page 4. ,
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks writes in this exquisite story of war, exile, and reconnection. Her grandmother's stories recalled one true home: the family farm left behind in Latvia, where, during WWII, her grandmother Livija and her grandmother's sister, Ausma, were separated. They would not see each other again for more than 50 years....
6) Still waters
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Jen Lauck chronicles the experiences she had after being separated from her brother and passed from caretaker to caretaker and discusses how those events shaped her life.
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