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Dr. Thornton's Book Shop
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"Something To Prove"
Paperback Edition
Personalized and autographed
Dr. Yvonne Thornton, author of the heartwarming memoir The Ditchdiggers Daughters (which has been translated into 19 languages and adapted as an award-winning movie), knows what its like to overcome steep odds.
Born into a family with great ambition but few advantages, Dr. Thornton watched her parents work their entire lives to give their daughters a chance, dreaming of the day their girls would be called doctor.
Now, in Something to Prove, Dr. Thornton brings us along her continued path as a doctor and mother, revealing the challenges of balancing a flourishing medical career with a growing family.
$15.00 + $5 Shipping and handling
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"The Ditchdigger's Daughters"
Paperback Edition
Personalized and autographed
The Ditchdigger's Daughters is the inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of an unusual man who was as clearheaded as he was ambitious and determined. Working two full-time jobs - and with the help of his equally remarkable wife,
who worked as a cleaning woman - Donald Thornton formed his bright and talented girls into a rhythm and blues band that played Harlem's Apollo Theatre, at the same time ensuring that each of them completed her education and rose to stand on equal
terms with anyone, man or woman, black or white.
$15.00 + $5 Shipping and handling
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"The Ditchdigger's Daughters"
DVD
The Ditchdigger's Daughters is the inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of an unusual man who was as clearheaded as he was ambitious and determined. Working two full-time jobs - and with the help of his equally remarkable wife,
who worked as a cleaning woman - Donald Thornton formed his bright and talented girls into a rhythm and blues band that played Harlem's Apollo Theatre, at the same time ensuring that each of them completed her education and rose to stand on equal
terms with anyone, man or woman, black or white.
$40.00 + $10 Shipping and handling
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