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Three minutes in Poland : discovering a lost world in a 1938 family film / Glenn Kurtz. - New York, NY : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015. - X, 419 s. : il., mapa ; 21 cm.

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Kurtz, Glenn (1962- )

Subject

Żydzi Film amatorski amerykański Ocaleni z Holokaustu Nasielsk (woj. mazowieckie)

When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather on a sightseeing trip to Europe, includes shaky footage of Paris and the Swiss Alps, with someone inevitably waving at the camera. Astonishingly, David Kurtz also captured on color 16mm film the only known moving images of the thriving, predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland, shortly before the community's destruction...

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King : a life / Jonathan Eig. - Firts edition. - New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. - 669 stron, [16] stron tablic : fotografie, portrety ; 24 cm.

Author

Eig, Jonathan (1964- ) Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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King, Martin Luther (1929-1968) Baptyści Czarni Polityka wewnętrzna Prawa człowieka Rasizm Zamach na Martina Luthera Kinga (1968) Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

Genre/Form

Biografia

Domain

Historia Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Tekst w języku angielskim.

Historia

Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s "King: A Life" is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father—as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr. In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

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Blackouts : a novel / Justin Torres. - First edition. - New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. - 305, [2] strony : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

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Torres, Justin (1980- ) Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Gay, Jan (1902-1960) Płeć Queer theory

Genre/Form

Powieść

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Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book-Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns-and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan’s tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? A book about storytelling-its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change-and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres’s "Blackouts" uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made-a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.

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Tales from Moominvalley / Tove Jansson ; translated by Thomas Warburton. - First Square Fish edition. - New York : Square Fish - Farrar Straus Giroux - Macmillan, September 2010. - 173, [1] strona : ilustracje ; 21 cm.

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Jansson, Tove (1914-2001) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Dzieci 6-8 lat

Demographic Group

Literatura fińska

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Muminki (postacie fikcyjne) Język angielski

Genre/Form

Opowiadania i nowele

Tekst w języku angielskim.

In "Tales from Moominvalley", nine delightfully funny stories reveal that the Moomin family aren't the only citizens of Moominvalley who have curious adventures.

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If animals kissed good night / Ann Whitford Paul ; pictures by David Walker. - New York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2014. - [34] s. : il. kolor. ; 17 cm.

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Whitford Pau, Ann Walker, David. Il.

Genre/Form

Poezja dziecięca amerykańska

Rhyming text explores what would happen if animals kissed like humans do, a slow kiss between a sloth and her cub to a mud-happy kiss from hippo calf to his father.

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