toni boucher (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Toni Patten (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean and firmly bound brown cloth boards, some marks on the end papers, name of previous owner written inside, remains of a rubbed out inscription on the front paste down.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a dirt floor in Italy to the halls of American power--this is one woman's extraordinary journey.In 1955, five-year-old Toni Boucher left everything she knew behind. Her family's stone farmhouse in war-torn Italy--with its dirt floors and no running water--would become a memory as they boarded a ship for America with empty pockets, no English, and nothing but hope.Stone Doll is the unforgettable memoir of an immigrant girl who refused to let hardship define her limits. Arriving in a country that promised everything but guaranteed nothing, young Toni watched her illiterate parents struggle to build a new life while family tragedies threatened to tear them apart. Yet through heartbreak and setbacks, she discovered an unbreakable spirit--first nurtured by her father and brother, and later strengthened by the love of her husband.From those humble beginnings emerged an unstoppable force: entrepreneur, political leader, philanthropist. Boucher would run seventeen political campaigns and win fifteen, rising to the highest levels of Connecticut state government. Together with her husband, she rode the entrepreneur's roller coaster--facing crushing failures and spectacular successes, never losing faith in the power of an idea worth fighting for.Today, as a major benefactor of the University of Connecticut and champion for society's most vulnerable, Toni Boucher proves that the American Dream isn't just about where you end up--it's about lifting others as you climb.This is her story. It could only happen in America.