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The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake (E-Book)
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake (E-Book)

The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake (E-Book)

By Dany Laferrière

Reviewed on: January 30, 2015 | Categories: Adult, Autobiography, Biography, History, Nonfiction, Travel

On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.

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It is well with my soul
It is well with my soul

It is well with my soul: The extraordinary life of a 106-year-old woman

By Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson with Patricia Mulcahy

Reviewed on: July 28, 2011 | Category: Biography

Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson is an inspirational, dynamic, and one-of-a-kind woman whose ordinary life has been nothing less than extraordinary throughout the course of her 106 years. Ella Mae is the child of former slaves who has experienced the best and worst of the past century - from the Jim Crow era to the 2009 presidential inauguration, which she memorably attended.

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