Author: Elizabeth Gurney FryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prison reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry
Author: Elizabeth Gurney FryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prison reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Betsy
Author: Jean HattonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780825460920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This is the true story of Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer whose life and commitment still inspire Christians everywhere to stand up for their beliefs despite insurmountable odds.
Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry
Author: Elizabeth Gurney FryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prison reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry
Author: Elizabeth FryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110803036X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
This memoir of philanthropist, prison reformer and Quaker Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) was published by her daughters in 1847.
Speak, Okinawa
Author: Elizabeth Miki BrinaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525657355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers. Decades later, Elizabeth comes to recognize the shame and self-loathing that haunt both her and her mother, and attempts a form of reconciliation, not only to come to terms with the embattled dynamics of her family but also to reckon with the injustices that reverberate throughout the history of Okinawa and its people. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment—a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.
Small Fry
Author: Lisa Brennan-JobsPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling memoir by Steve Jobs’ daughter: “This sincere and disquieting portrait reveals a complex father-daughter relationship.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. Lisa found her father’s attention thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school, Lisa decided to move in with her father, hoping he’d become the parent she’d always wanted him to be. Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s poignant story of childhood and growing up. Scrappy, wise, and funny, Lisa offers an intimate window into the peculiar world of this family, and the strange magic of Silicon Valley in the seventies and eighties.
Elizabeth Fry
Author: June RosePublisher: Tempus
ISBN: 9780752442457
Category : Prison reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Elizabeth Fry, mother of eleven children and a Quaker minister, is seen as one of the most influential and enigmatic women in English history. Dismayed by the terrible prison conditions in the early 19th century, Fry drew the world's attention to the plight of incarcerated women, and became a living legend. This work presents her story.
Life In Prison
Author: Stanley "Tookie" WilliamsPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781587170935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Williams, the cofounder of the Crips gang and a nominee for both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, became an anti-gang crusader before he was executed in December 2005. In this work he debunked urban myths about prison life and challenged young people to choose the right path. Selected for the Young Adult Library Services Association's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list.
Unafraid of the Dark
Author: Rosemary BrayPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385494750
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her deeply affecting, vividly written memoir, Rosemary L. Bray describes with remarkable frankness growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and her childhood shaped by welfare, the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil rights movement. Bray writes poignantly of her lasting dread of the cold and the dark that characterized her years of poverty; of her mother's extraordinary strength and resourcefulness; and of the system that miraculously enabled her mother to scrape together enough to keep the children fed and clothed. Bray's parents, held together by their ambitions for their children and painfully divided by their poverty, punctuate young Rosemary's nights with their violent fights and define her days with their struggles. This powerful, ultimately inspiring book is a moving testimony of the history Bray overcame, and the racial obstacles she continues to see in her children's way.
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