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Finding Martha's Place : my journey through sin, salvation, and lots of soul food / Martha Hawkins ; with Marcus Brotherton.
Van Pelt Library F334.M753 H394 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, Martha.
- Brotherton, Marcus, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawkins, Martha.
- Hawkins, Martha--Philosophy.
- African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African American women--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- African American women.
- Restaurateurs--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Restaurateurs.
- Martha's Place.
- Divorced mothers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Divorced mothers.
- Philosophy.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.
- Montgomery (Ala.).
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.
- Alabama--Montgomery.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 231 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First Touchstone hardcover edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by Simon & Schuster, [2010].
- Contents:
- Shocked
- How we was
- Our heaven in the projects
- Different
- Ugly, stupid
- Poor choices
- Determined
- What stopped me
- So much bad
- A single light
- The start of being free
- A few steps forward
- The places you'll go
- The people you'll meet
- My crazy dream
- The terms of grace
- Martha's Place.
- Notes:
- "A Touchstone book."
- "This work is a memoir. Certain names and characteristics have been changed and some characters are composites."
- "First Touchstone hardcover edition January 2010."
- "Designed by Ruth Lee-Mui."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781439137819
- 1439137811
- OCLC:
- 421531678
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