Every day is a gift a memoir
(Large Print)
Author
Published
New York : Twelve Large Print, 2021.
Format
Large Print
Edition
First edition., Large print [edition].
ISBN
9781538706046, 1538706040
Physical Desc
x, 387 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Denville Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print | LT BIOG DUCKWORTH | Available |
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print | LT 328.73 DUC | Checked Out |
Pequannock Library - Adult Nonfiction | LP 320 DUC | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Duckworth, Tammy, -- 1968-
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography.
Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Women legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Women politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Women veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Duckworth, Tammy, -- 1968-
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography.
Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Women legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Women politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Women veterans -- United States -- Biography.
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Published
New York : Twelve Large Print, 2021.
Edition
First edition., Large print [edition].
Language
English
ISBN
9781538706046, 1538706040
Notes
Description
In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes listeners through the amazing - and amazingly true - stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's US Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But as Duckworth shows in Every Day Is a Gift, that moment was just one in a lifetime of extraordinary turns. The biracial daughter of an American father and a Thai-Chinese mother, Duckworth faced discrimination, poverty, and the horrors of war - all before the age of 16. As a child, she dodged bullets as her family fled war-torn Phnom Penh. As a teenager, she sold roses by the side of the road to save her family from hunger and homelessness in Hawaii. Through these experiences, she developed a fierce resilience that would prove invaluable in the years to come. Duckworth joined the Army, becoming one of a handful of female helicopter pilots at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She served eight months in Iraq before an insurgent's RPG shot down her helicopter, an attack that took her legs - and nearly took her life. She then spent 13 months recovering at Walter Reed, learning to walk again on prosthetic legs and planning her return to the cockpit. But Duckworth found a new mission after meeting her state's senators, Barack Obama and Dick Durbin. After winning two terms as a US Representative, she won election to the US Senate in 2016. And she and her husband Bryan fulfilled another dream when she gave birth to two daughters, becoming the first sitting senator to give birth.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Duckworth, T. (2021). Every day is a gift: a memoir (First edition.). Twelve Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Duckworth, Tammy, 1968-. 2021. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir. Twelve Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Duckworth, Tammy, 1968-. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir Twelve Large Print, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Duckworth, Tammy. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir First edition., Twelve Large Print, 2021.
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