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Overview: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes,...
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Arte Publico Press
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English
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The founder of ASPIRA, the national non-profit organization devoted to Puerto Rican leadership development, discusses her birth and youth in Puerto Rico, her move to New York City, the founding of ASPIRA, and her involvement in academia and American politics.
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Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his 9-year-old daughter to a geisha house in Kyoto. Chiyo will be an unpaid servant until it is determined if she is beautiful enough for apprenticeship, and the house's clientele. Run by Mother, the ruling geisha is Hatsumomo, and little Pumpkin her only friend. Trained under strict discipline for a lifetime of entertaining and flattering wealthy men, Sayuri grows up lovely, accomplished, and the target of jealous...
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John Wiley & Sons Canada
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Everyone has a story to tell, and Van Cleave provides you with the tools you need to share your life story with the world. You'll get advice on how to explore your memories, map out your story, perfect your plot, and so much more.
16) Memoir of a tour to northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's expedition, in 1846 and 1847
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Mis. doc volume 30th Congress, 1st session, no. 26
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Rio Grande Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
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