The Resource Strength in what remains, Tracy Kidder
Strength in what remains, Tracy Kidder
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Resource Information
The item Strength in what remains, Tracy Kidder represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 277 pages
- Contents
-
- Flights
- Gusimbura
- Isbn
- 9781400066216
- Label
- Strength in what remains
- Title
- Strength in what remains
- Statement of responsibility
- Tracy Kidder
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Biography
- Biography
- Book group discussion kits.
- Burundi
- Burundian Americans
- Burundian Americans -- Biography
- Clive Book Club
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Dartmouth Medical School -- Biography
- Emigrants and Immigrants -- New York City -- Biography
- Emigrants and Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Genocide
- Genocide -- Burundi -- History -- 20th century
- History
- History, 20th Century
- 1900-1999
- Immigrants
- Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Medical students
- Medical students -- United States -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (State) -- New York
- Niyizonkiza, Deo
- Niyizonkiza, Deo
- Refugees
- Refugees -- Burundi -- Biography
- Students, Medical -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Homicide -- history -- Burundi
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kidder, Tracy
- Dewey number
-
- 305.896/7572073
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.B89
- LC item number
- K53 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WZ 100
- NLM item number
- N735 2009
- Series statement
- Book club kit
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Niyizonkiza, Deo
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Niyizonkiza, Deo
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Burundian Americans
- Immigrants
- Genocide
- Refugees
- Immigrants
- New York (N.Y.)
- Medical students
- Burundian Americans
- Genocide
- Immigrants
- Medical students
- United States
- Refugees
- Burundi
- New York (State)
- Refugees
- Genocide
- Clive Book Club
- African Americans
- Emigrants and Immigrants
- Emigrants and Immigrants
- History, 20th Century
- Homicide
- Refugees
- Students, Medical
- Label
- Strength in what remains, Tracy Kidder
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Flights -- Gusimbura
- Control code
- ocn263605390
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 277 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400066216
- Lccn
- 2008044865
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o263605390
- (OCoLC)263605390
- Label
- Strength in what remains, Tracy Kidder
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Flights -- Gusimbura
- Control code
- ocn263605390
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 277 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400066216
- Lccn
- 2008044865
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o263605390
- (OCoLC)263605390
Subject
- African Americans -- Biography
- Biography
- Book group discussion kits.
- Burundi
- Burundian Americans
- Burundian Americans -- Biography
- Clive Book Club
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Dartmouth Medical School -- Biography
- Emigrants and Immigrants -- New York City -- Biography
- Emigrants and Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Genocide
- Genocide -- Burundi -- History -- 20th century
- History
- History, 20th Century
- 1900-1999
- Immigrants
- Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Medical students
- Medical students -- United States -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (State) -- New York
- Niyizonkiza, Deo
- Niyizonkiza, Deo
- Refugees
- Refugees -- Burundi -- Biography
- Students, Medical -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Homicide -- history -- Burundi
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