| |
|
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
David W. Blight
Harcourt, 2007
Two who sought and found their own freedom
Recently two new important African-American slave narratives have come to light, published here along with scholarly commentary for the first time. They are considered significant by historians because they support a theory that slaves played a role in bringing about ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist ...
Andrea Moore-Emmett
Pince-Nez Press, 2004
Great Overview
Having read many books on the problem of polygomy this was a great overview of all the different groups practicing this lifestyle and stories of women who had escaped from this way of life.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Shanghai Remembered...: Stories Of Jews Who Escaped To Shanghai From Nazi Europe
Momentum Books, LLC, 2005
Personal, Intense and Enlightening
I loved this book. I did not realize that more than 20,000 Jews had escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Germany in the late 1930's. In this this book, a dozen or so of these refugees tell their stories in a very personal way. In this book, we get inside the homes, heads and ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty And Became Their Own Bosses
Martha Shirk, Anna S. Wadia
Basic Books, 2004
Inspirational
This book really brings to life the struggles that women entrepreneurs face as they try to turn an idea for a business into a profitable reality. The real-life women whom the authors profile are truly memorable, from Roselyn Spotted Eagle, the Sioux beadworker and ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog
Elisa Carbone
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008
Touching story about a very brave boy and his dog
This is a touching book based in truth about a boy slave who decides to run away and the obstacles that he encounters. He is accompanied and helped by his trustworthy dog. The boy appreciates how his dog has helped him and becomes devoted to the dog which could have ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom
Sulima and Hala, Batya Swift Yasgur
Wiley, 2002
A glimpse into two horrific lives
I read a negative review on here, that I was unhappy to see. This book focuses on "Salima" and "Hala" two Afghani sisters, both opressed by different wars and regimes at different times in Afghanistan. They are 16 years apart. Reading that Salima had a "pampered life" ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Ten Thousand Children: True Stories Told by Children Who Escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport
Anne Fox; Eva Abraham-Podietz
Behrman House Publishing, 1998
War through a child's eyes
As the generation of World War II survivors is all-too quickly disappearing, today's children are running out of opportunities to connect with those who survived the war. Ten Thousand Children is a series of true anecdotes told by the children who escaped the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Missing Persons: A Writer's Guide to Finding the Lost, the Abducted and the Escaped (Howdunit Series)
Fay Faron
Writer's Digest Books, 1997
Missing Persons Reference or a Way to Get Away?
It's supposed to be a reference to find the lost, abducted and escaped. But the tips could help you become a missing person! Some of the most interesting sections include: "How People Purposely Hide Their Whereabouts" "The Four-Step Formula for Finding Someone" ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Great Expectations
LeClue, 2008
"Great Expectations" is the story of the orphan Pip, tracing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Charles Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
I Escaped From Auschwitz
Rudolf Vrba
Barricade Books, 2002
A Book on Every Page
When reading this book I was struck by how many human lives are mentioned in passing, summed up in a paragraph and lost. The volume and diversity of tales told in this book reflects the number and diversity of people Mr. Vrba came into contact with during his horrific ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Rescue Dawn: The Story of Dieter Dengler, the U.S. Navy Pilot Who Escaped from a Vietnam POW Camp
Bruce Henderson
Amazon, 2006
Survival and heroism: the Dieter Dengler story
Best-selling author Bruce Henderson's "The Dieter Dengler Story" brings to vivid life a little known heroic chapter of the Vietnam War. In 1966, Henderson was a fleet weatherman aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger off the coast of North Vietnam, and he witnessed ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Run, Bambi, Run: The Beautiful Ex-Cop and Convicted Murderer Who Escaped to Freedom and Won America's Heart
Kris Radish
Carol Publishing Corporation, 1992
Flat
True crime accounts might be one of the last guilty pleasures of the literary world, now that erotica has come out of brown paper wrappers and entered the mainstream. In a genre frequently laden with numerous factual details,it takes a skilled writer to weave all the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life And Pastimes
Ralph M. McInerny
University of Notre Dame Press, 2006
Delightful
A delightful autobiography -- one can only wish it were longer. The author's life has been full of adventures that most of us can experience only second-hand. Of particular interest may be the chapter on Vatican II and its aftermath, or the chapter delineating the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Man Escaped: The Classic WWII Escape Adventure
Andre Devigny
The Lyons Press, 2002
Excellent story and very written
This is a great book, well written with nothing lost in the translation. The story grips you, even though Devigny knew in the beginning what his fate probably would be. I liked his description of the prison - you can almost smell the place. He doesn't dwell too much ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage
Evelyn Wilde Mayerson
Atheneum, 1990
Living in the steerage section of a steamship bound for America, Chanah tries to keep her newly found cat a secret.
|
|
|
|
|
|
