ghostbox a memoir

Ghostbox: A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jacobs, Walter R., PUBLISHER: iUniverse, Two years after Walter R. Jacobs was forced to call his new stepmother "Mom," she cancelled what would have been his 13th Christmas. In the memoir Ghostbox" Jacobs explores a life where family problems are blamed on "disrespectful" children who refused to accept "Mom's" authority. His stepmother is a "sociological ghost," a force that limited his thoughts and decisions until he filled a special shoebox with objects that evoke significant memories: good, bad, and ugly. This "ghostbox" has rendered his stepmother's seething presence benign. Jacobs investigates how just a relatively short stay in his stepmother's house (seven years with his stepmother, father, and younger brother) led to almost twenty years of questions about multiple facets of his identity, such as the proper rules and rhythms of life as an African-American college professor. In the end, he finds the key to finally and completely breaking away from the dysfunctions that threatened his self-esteem and ability to interact normally with others. Jacobs includes an appendix of guidelines readers may use to create their own ghostboxes. He invites readers into a world where they can reflect on troubling aspects of their lives, and create strategies for making empowering changes.

Memoir: A History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yagoda, Ben, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir. From Saint Augustine's "Confessions" to Augusten Burroughs's "Running with Scissors," from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating life, and deserves its own biography. Cultural and literary critic Ben Yagoda traces the memoir from its birth in early Christian writings and Roman generals' journals all the way up to the banner year of , which saw memoirs from and about dogs, rock stars, bad dads, good dads, alternadads, waitresses, George Foreman, Iranian women, and a slew of other illustrious persons (and animals). In a time when memoir seems ubiquitous and is still highly controversial, Yagoda tackles the autobiography and memoir in all its forms and iterations. He discusses the fraudulent memoir and provides many examples from the past-and addresses the ramifications and consequences of these books. Spanning decades and nations, styles and subjects, he analyzes the hallmark memoirs of the Western tradition-Rousseau, Ben Franklin, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Edward Gibbon, among others. Yagoda also describes historical trends, such as Native American captive memoirs, slave narratives, courtier dramas (where one had to pay to NOT be included in a courtesan's memoir). Throughout, the idea of memory and truth, how we remember and how well we remember lives, is intimately explored. Yagoda's elegant examination of memoir is at once a history of literature and taste, and an absorbing glimpse into what humans find interesting-one another.

Memoir of a Visionary: Antonia Pantoja

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pantoja, Antonia, PUBLISHER: Arte Publico Press, Antonia Pantoja's memoir is filled with descriptions of her life as a factory worker and lamp designer, to acclaimed social worker and principal engineer of the most enduring Puerto Rican organizations in New York City, including Aspira, the non-profit organization devoted to the education and leadership development of Puerto Rican youth.

The Life of Gluckel of Hameln: A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gluckel / Glueckel / Abrahams, Beth-Zion, PUBLISHER: Jewish Publication Society of America, Gluckel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband in , she proceeded to write the riveting memoir that would become a timeless classic, revealing much about Jewish life in seventeenth-century Germany. This volume also features an introduction by translator Beth-Zion Abrahams that provides a fuller background of the author's life and tells how Gluckel came to write the memoir that would provide insight for centuries to come into Jewish, European, and women's history.

Manchurian American A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yupin Wang, PUBLISHER: iUniverse Inc, NA

Hoi Polloi A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Craig Sherborne, PUBLISHER: Old Street Publishing, NA

Biographical Memoir of John Shaw Billings,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weir Silas, PUBLISHER: BiblioLife LLC, NA

Memoir Of John H. Clifford ()

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Charles Robert, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Memoir of George Barrell Emerson

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Robert C Waterston, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

A Memoir of Adelaide Leaper Newton

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: John Baillie, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Raising Lazarus A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dwight Arnan Williams Robert Jon Pensack, PUBLISHER: iUniverse Inc, NA

Memoir on the Island of Navassa (West Indies)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Eugene Gaussoin, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA

A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Austen-Leigh, James Edward / Sutherland, Kathryn, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in , over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions. This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of and his less known "Memoir" of .

The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti With an Introductory Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Charles William Russell, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Let's Pretend This Never Happened A Mostly True Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jenny Lawson, PUBLISHER: Pan Macmillan, NA

She Was Eighteen and a Half A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Albert Elias, PUBLISHER: iUniverse Inc, NA

Uncovering the Secrets of a Southern Family A Memoir

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wayne E Busbice, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, NA

A Memoir of the Life and Philosophy of Spurzheim ()

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carmichael Andrew, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Hot Zone Memoir of a Professional Firefighter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: NA, PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company Incorporated Publishers, NA Acquista Ora

Memoir of the Life, Travels, and Religious Experience of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Martha Winter Routh, PUBLISHER: Books LLC, NA

Headhunter One One The Vietnam Memoir of a Recon/Observation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vincent Capozzella, PUBLISHER: Heritage Books Inc, NA

Land of Dreams

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schreiber, Mordecai, PUBLISHER: Shengold Publishers, In the State of Israel is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the state. More than a personal memoir, Land of Dreams, written from the viewpoint of both a keenly observant child and an adult looking back half a century later, helps the reader understand the why and the how of the new nation, which grew in 50 years from a precarious community of half a million, to a strong state of over five million people.

St. Patrick Apostle of Ireland A Memoir of His Life and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: James Henthorn Todd, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan Or the Mogul Empire: With an

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: James Rennell, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA

F**king up the Buttons on a Babygrow A Memoir of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Drew Magary, PUBLISHER: Little Brown and Company, NA

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