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An integrated boyhood : coming of age in white Cleveland / by Richards, Phillip M., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A hopeful beginning -- The ghetto within -- My father's house -- Coming of age at Alexander Hamilton Jr. High School -- Antioch Baptist Church and the Emmers -- Circle Pines: the first time -- Circle Pines once more -- University school -- Two speakers come to Yale -- Crack-up.…”
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Coming of age with the New republic, 1938-1950 by Peterson, Merrill D.

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Walking the night road : coming of age in grief / by Butler, Alexandra

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Migrant daughter coming of age as a Mexican American woman / by Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel, 1931-

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They'll have to catch me first an artist's coming of age in the Third Reich / by Awret, Irene, 1920-

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A boy from Georgia : coming of age in the segregated South / by Jordan, Hamilton

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The Rebbe the life and afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson / by Heilman, Samuel C.

Table of Contents: “…Farbrengen : the gathering of the emissaries -- Death and resurrection -- Coming of age in a time of transition -- Entering the court of Lubavitch -- From survival to Uforatzto -- On a mission from the Rebbe in life -- From resurrection to death : we want moshiach now -- On a mission from the Rebbe in his afterlife.…”
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The fertility doctor : John Rock and the reproductive revolution / by Marsh, Margaret S., 1945-, Ronner, Wanda

Table of Contents: “…Family matters -- Choosing medicine, coming of age -- New discoveries in human reproduction -- Firing the first shot in the reproductive revolution -- The world of the patients -- The fertility doctor meets the pill -- The era of the pill begins -- The face and voice of the pill -- The pill falls from grace -- A true visionary.…”
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Vienna in the age of uncertainty science, liberalism, and private life / by Coen, Deborah R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a scientific dynasty -- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s -- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s -- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age -- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s -- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle -- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900 -- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908 -- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918 -- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926 -- Conclusion : a family's legacy -- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Ben Love my life in Texas Commerce / by Love, Benton F., 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in Paris -- Coming of age during World War II -- Growing old over Europe -- Back to the real world -- From business to banking -- Downtown to Texas Commerce -- Solidifying the base, 1968-72 -- The glory years, 1972-84 -- A new home for Texas Commerce -- The economic downturn and merging with Chemical Bank, 1983-89 -- Striking a balance : investing in politics and the community -- The lessons of a life.…”
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The true story of Pocahontas the other side of history / by Custalow, Linwood

Table of Contents: “…-- Pocahontas : a favorite child -- Captain John Smith : an English chief -- Pocahontas : the Powhatan peace symbol -- Powhatan rule : not by force -- Danger in Pocahontas's homeland -- Pocahontas comes of age -- Pocahontas kidnapped -- No retaliation -- Marriage in captivity -- The colony saved by the Powhatan -- Pocahontas's revelation -- Murder in England -- In the years that followed.…”
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The big three in economics Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes / by Skousen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Adam Smith declares an economic revolution in 1776 -- From Smith to Marx: the rise and fall of classical economics -- Karl Marx leads a revolt against capitalism -- From Marx to Keynes: scientific economics comes of age -- John Maynard Keynes: capitalism faces its greatest challenge -- Conclusion: has Adam Smith triumphed over Marx and Keynes?.…”
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Warriors without war Seminole leadership in the late twentieth century / by Wickman, Patricia R. (Patricia Riles)

Table of Contents: “…An alternate universe -- Coming of age in the '70s -- James "E." Billie : the man who would be king -- Hitting the big time -- Dollars and drugs -- Home, home on the res -- One too many alligators -- Money matters (more and more) -- The beginning of the end -- Gaming : the next chapter -- The fourth Seminole war -- La ley del deseo -- A change, of course? …”
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After the Girls Club how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- Introduction: The women and the Girls Club -- Lodz : a path to the ghetto -- Growing up : coming of age in a nightmare -- Sh'erit ha-Pletah : the "Surviving Remnant" -- America : a home at the Girls Club -- After the Girls Club : settling in, settling down -- Betty and Lucy : different forks in the road -- Child survivors in old age : the aging women.…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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Portrait of a Young Painter : Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation / by Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-

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Aural History / by Ashtor, Gila

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