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Comedians South Africa Biography Comedians United States Biography Human rights Intersex athletes South Africa Biography Olympic athletes South Africa Biography People with disabilities Education Semenya, Caster 1991- Success Television personalities United States Biography Women runners South Africa BiographySemenya, Caster
Summary: In this memoir for young readers, Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya reflects on her groundbreaking career and her fight for identity in professional sports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SEMSemenya, Caster
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEMENYA, CASTER SEMKohler, Sheila
Summary: "A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOHLER, SHEILA KOHArchibald, Brett
Summary: "In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald set off with his friends on a dream surf charter trip off the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia. It quickly became a nightmare: in the middle of a storm, suffering from severe food poisoning, Brett leaned overboard--and blacked out. He awoke in the raging sea. No one had seen him fall, and no one heard his shouts for help. He watched his boat sail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARCHIBALD, BRETT ARCNdopu, Eddie
Summary: "Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other. Eddie Ndopu grew up loving pop music and reruns of The Bold and the Beautiful, and as an adult he would become a globe-trotting disability activist. By his early twenties, he had rocketed through every boundary put in front of him--a queer, Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NDOPU, EDDIE NDONoah, Trevor
Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, "--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019