Open the Unusual Door
True Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure, and Success by Black Americans
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 28, 2005
Sometimes life offers us chances to change our direction.
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- Who it’s for
- Barbara Summers’s anthology brings together autobiographical essays about challenge, adventure, and success.
- Themes
- Life-changing opportunities, Resilience and triumph, Survival and comeback
- Genres
- Writers' Lives
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Sometimes life offers us chances to change our direction. These opportunities can be obvious, but many times they come as a surprise and, if we’re not paying close attention, we can miss the door leading to change. All of the authors in this inspiring collection took advantage of the hand they were dealt—a chance to triumph, make a comeback, or, in some cases, simply survive.
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Barbara Summers has selected an intriguing collection of autobiographical essays and edited them into a thought-provoking anthology that teaches us how to recognize the right door, open it, and find the strength to walk through it.
Autobiographical Essays
Barbara Summers’s anthology brings together autobiographical essays about challenge, adventure, and success.
Come here for
- True-life stories by Black Americans
- Autobiographical essays about challenge and adventure
Expect
- Stories of chances to change direction
- Reflections on recognizing an opportunity and finding strength to act
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives | 43% |
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Publisher categories
- Cultural Heritage Lives
- Lives in History
- Writers' Lives
- Performers' Lives
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- Activist Biographies
- Women's Lives
- United States History for Teens
- African American U.S. History for Teens
- Authors
- Barbara Summers
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 28, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Life-changing opportunities · Resilience and triumph · Survival and comeback
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives