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“laurel holliday”

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  • Children of the Troubles

    Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland

    by Laurel Holliday ...
    In this remarkable second book in the Children of Conflict series, Laurel Holliday presents a powerful collection of young people's memories of growing up in the midst of the violence in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles.""All my life I have been afraid. When it would get dark I would lie in bed and be frightened to move in case men would be outside who were going to smash the doors in with ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Children in the Holocaust and World War II

    Their Secret Diaries

    by Laurel Holliday ...
    Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England.Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, children's experiences are written with an unguarded eloquence ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Children of Israel, Children of Palestine

    by Laurel Holliday ...
    Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous conflicts. Here, thirty-six men and women, boys and girls, tell of their coming-of-age in a land of turmoil.From kibbutzim in Israel and the occupied territories to Palestinian refugee camps in the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Children of the Dream

    Our Own Stories Growing Up Black in America

    by Laurel Holliday ...
    From the award-winning author of the Children of Conflict series comes a powerful collection of thirty-eight men and women sharing their experiences on what it was like growing up as a person of color in a time of racial injustice.I was brought up with white Barbie dolls of impossible proportions and long silky blonde hair—neither of which I possessed. As a child I believed what I was taught, and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Nazi Officer's Wife

    How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

    by Susan Dworkin, Edith Hahn Beer ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerIn this gripping WWII historical nonfiction, Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground, a true story of survival by hiding in plain sight. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged ... Read more

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  • My Promised Land

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  • The Hour I First Believed

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  • All Over but the Shoutin'

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  • An Improbable Friendship

    The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty-Year Peace Mission

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  • Daddy Was a Number Runner

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    by Louise Meriwether, Nellie Y. McKay ...
    This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin ( Publishers Weekly).Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed ... Read more

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  • Fire Shut Up in My Bones

    by Charles M. Blow ...
    The New York Times columnist recounts growing up in rural Louisiana in this "brave and powerful memoir" of poverty, abuse, sexuality, and perseverance ( Publishers Weekly).Charles M. Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her ... Read more

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