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MANUALS and DVD
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Paper Stranger/Shaping Stories in Community, by Erika Duncan:. Herstory’s manual for teachers, healers and activists, provides an introduction to Herstory’s empathy-based approach to memoir writing. Readings and reflections are interwoven with a step-by-step compendium of exercises and tools.
$24.95
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Passing Along the Dare to Care: A Mini-Memoir Course for Younger Writers, by Erika Duncan This collection of readings and exercises – based on what causes a “Stranger/Reader” to care – fosters dialogues across differences, diversity studies and a sense of community, as well as enhanced listening, reading and narrative skills.
$14.95
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Teaching Memoir Writing the Herstory Way: This 90-minute instructional DVD— divided into six free-standing tracks— provides, teachers, healers and activists with an overview of the empathy-based techniques that have proven effective in school, jail and community settings. It is best used in combination with our two manuals, and is being offered along with Paper Stranger, for teachers, and Passing Along the Dare to Care, for students.
$29.95
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Special Combination Package: We are offering Paper Stranger/Volume I, for teachers (normally $19.95), Passing Along the Dare to Care, for students (normally $14.95) and Teaching Memoir the Herstory Way, our instructional DVD (normally $29.95) at a 23% reduction from the full price. For web instructions as to how to use these combined materials, click here.
$49.95
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ANTHOLOGIES
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VOICES: Memoirs from Long Island’s Correctional Facilities our newly expanded edition not only gives readers a glimpse into the lives of the women and girls whom our society incarcerates, but raises the most important questions confronting families faced with imprisonment, rupture of relationships, and closed doors. This groundbreaking collection includes 65 pages of narrative writing by adolescent girls (ages 16-21) and a section on writing for restorative justice. Recommended reading for human rights and justice reform activists and for classes in criminology in high school and college including: Introduction; Theory; Delinquency; Gender and Crime; Corrections; Urban Crime; Crimes Against Children; Women's Studies, and Human Rights.
$19.95
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Latinas Write/Escriben, edited by Sandra Dunn and Silvia Heredia with a guest section edited by Antoinette Hertel: This 330-page bilingual collection takes the reader through sections on Immigrant Realities, Childhood, Motherhood, Faces of Illness and Faces of Love, through the voices of 23 women writing with Herstory all over Long Island and 11 women from Sutiaba, Nicaragua. Rarely do students in ESL, foreign language, sociology, writing and women’s studies classes have the chance to experience literature created by people “just like them.” A vital reader for community welcoming groups, book clubs, and classroom use.
$22.95
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Back Issues of VOICES and Latinas Write/Escriben are available in magazine format at $14.95 per issue.
MEMOIRS
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The Teller in the Tale: A Half-Jewish Child in Nazi Germany by Elizabeth Heyn is the story of a half-Jewish child growing up in Nazi Germany. It traces its way through her miraculous late escape in 1941 just three weeks before the German borders close, to her coming of age as a refugee in Franco’s Spain, and finally to her attempts to become a typical American teenager. Rich in the not usually documented details of everyday life for one who falls between the cracks —neither Jewish nor Gentile and thus subject to different rules — this is also the story of a mother and daughter who, due to the circumstances in their lives, need to adjust to their too-closeness, even as they find their own ways.
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Love Song at the End of the Day: A Journey into Alzheimer’s by Muriel Weyl- This unexpectedly optimistic memoir is a testimony to living life to its fullest, written with compassion and humor. Throughout this “love song” — which only deepens as we move from diagnosis into daily living with Alzheimer’s — we find remembrances of a sixty-two-year relationship in the everyday moments that weave through this work. It is ultimately a celebration of the human spirit, a bedside book for anyone who is connected to a sufferer from memory loss.
$14.95 |
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| NOTE CARDS and POSTERS |
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Note Cards featuring the original work of our artist-in-residence Gwynne Duncan, make perfect gifts at any time of the year and help support the work of Herstory. 11 elegant designs. $14 per package.
$14.00 |
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Our Annual Benefit Posters featuring the original work of our artist-in-residence Gwynne Duncan, make perfect gifts at any time of the year and help support the work of Herstory. $10 per poster/ $25 for three.
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Three: $25 |
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