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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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“Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity.”— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American...
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Language
English
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Learning to take charge of your own narrative: Laurel Touby ; Rachel Simmons ; Corinna Lathan ; Lani Guinier ; Ileana Jiménez ; Lisa Lutz ; Kim Gordon ; Reshma Saujani ; Cheryl Strayed. Learning to ask: Danielle Ofri ; Joanna Barsh ; Alina Tugend ; Selena Rezvani ; Carla Harris. Learning to say no: Anna Holmes ; Luma Mufleh ; Ruth Reichl ; Sharon Pomerantz. Learning resilience: Judith Warner ; Rinku Sen ; Shirley Malcolm ; Ruth Ozeki ; Courtney...
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Thomas presents 101 new stories that are at once universal and personal. From big cities to farm communities, from office cubicles to hospital wards, from Normandy Beach to Boston's Fenway Park, the contributors, selected from among thousands, tell about the words that changed their lives forever. And the "right words" can come from anywhere--the pages of a songbook, the pulpit of a church, the wreckage of Ground Zero, a hand-stitched sampler hanging...