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  The Black Widow - A Memoir

  Jeanette Lee, Dana Benbow

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  A candid and moving autobiography by the 'Black Widow' of billiardsJeanette Lee was 18 years old when she walked into a New York City pool hall and became enamored by theelegant geometry of the game. Before long, she was an unmistakable figure on the international competitioncircuit, dressed head-to-toe in black, stalking the billiards table and gazing down her cue as if tracking her prey.In this new memoir, the woman nicknamed 'The Black Widow' opens up about her legendary career and therich, unpredictable life she's woven around it. Lee details her upbringing in a Korean-American household inthe Bronx, her single-minded drive to reach the pinnacle of her sport, and her unlikely entry into the realm ofmainstream celebrity in an era where female athletes rarely got their share of the limelight.Lee also reflects on her lifelong struggle with scoliosis, which necessitated over twenty operations during herplaying career; her public battle with Stage 4 ovarian cancer; the communities that gave her strength throughout.Written with warmth and candor, this the definitive story of a true icon.

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  Eisenhower Babies - Growing Up...

  Ronnie Blair

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  Eisenhower Babies takes readers on a journey to a time when World War II memories were still relatively fresh, space exploration was becoming more than just fantastical subject matter for science fiction, and television had barged its way into American homes, taking up permanent residence in a hallowed spot in front of the living room sofa. Among the millions of Eisenhower Babies who burst on the scene from January 1953 to January 1961 was Ronnie Blair. His memoir of growing up in a Kentucky coal-mining community from the late 1950s to the early 1970s weaves history, popular culture, and geography into a nostalgic journey interspersed with tales of coal-strike tensions and humorous family adventures. Eisenhower Babies is a celebration of the eccentricities of 1960s small-town life, where a police officer might promise to give a four-year-old his gun once the officer ran out of bullets, a neighbor could return from a Florida vacation with a live baby alligator as a new pet, and the children of World War II veterans waged imaginary battles against Hitler’s treachery in their hillside backyards.

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  Summary and Discussions of The...

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  My Escapes: Escapes from Behind...

  Zoltan Bartok

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  Accused of sabotage on the tenth anniversary of the 1956 revolution, the author tried to escape from Hungary. He was 17 years old. Caught before reaching the Yugoslav border, he was jailed and treated cruelly. In 1970, instead of regular military service, he had to do hard labor in a penal colony that was established for „enemies of the state”. Risking prison, he was able to trick police and obtain a red passport with a 24-hour Yugoslav transit visa in 1973. During a night in August, he swam to freedom in the Adriatic Sea. After 6 months in Italy, he was admitted by the USA as a political refugee. 
  After the 1975 Helsinki Conference, believing that the amnesty the communist government granted was credible, he returned to his homeland in 1976. After 10 months „back in the cage”, he risked everything and escaped through the Hungarian-Yugoslav border near a military post. However, the following day Yugoslav soldiers captured him about 100 feet from the Italian border, put him in jail where he was accused of being a KGB agent. When the interrogations ended at the end of his prison term, he was actually helped by members of the Yugoslav secret service to sneak into Italy during the night of September 29, 1977. In the city of Triest, he found refuge at Studio R, a gathering place for members of the Italian Red Brigade. After 10 challenging days among these Eurocommunists, he received money from friends in Germany and the USA. He took the train to Rome. He showed up at the airport with his only document, his American Green Card and was able to board a plane to New York. 
  Back in the USA, new adventures and new miracles awaited him. His struggles to survive the hardships and to adjust to the American way of life are described in book 2, Escapes from Myself.

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  How to Be a Muslim - An American...

  Haroon Moghul

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  Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University's Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before interfaith audiences, in print. Moghul was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims even as he struggled with his relationship to Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn't pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as he discovered, it wasn't so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim reveals a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it's like to lose yourself between cultures and how to pick up the piece

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  Italian Neighbors

  Tim Parks

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  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy.   Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood, the novelist found that he had inadvertently collected a gallery full of splendid characters. In this wittily observed account, Parks introduces readers to his home town, with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between.   Via Colombare, the village’s main street, offers an exemplary hodgepodge of all that is new and old in the bel paese, a point of collision between invading suburbia and diehard peasant tradition. It is a world of creeping vines, stuccoed walls, shotguns, security cameras, hypochondria, and expensive sports cars. More than a mere travelogue, Italian Neighbors is a vivid portrait of the real Italy and a compelling story of how even the most foreign people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home.   “One of the most delightful travelogues imaginable . . . so vivid, so packed with delectable details.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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