Fists upon a Star : A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from Mccarthyism [1 ed.] 9780889772618, 9780889772601

Fists upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastatin

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""I don't know how Michele Weldon made wrestling, breast cancer, and single parenting tie together so nat

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The enchanting memoir of an artist?s liberating sojourn in France during the sixties?and the friendship that transformed

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A thrilling wartime adventure story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occ

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A wife and mother of a grown son and two teen daughters, a woman enjoying her career and life, Mary Jo Doig wants nothin

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A wife and mother of a grown son and two teen daughters, a woman enjoying her career and life, Mary Jo Doig wants nothin

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A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, motherhood and memory, i

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Counting on America, an uplifting Holocaust memoir, reads both like a history novel and Hollywood thriller. Dozens of na

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