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Leaving Breezy street : a memoir / Brenda Myers-Powell, with April Reynolds.

Myers-Powell, Brenda, (author.). Reynolds, April, (author.).

Summary:
"What did Brenda Myers-Powell want? When she turned to prostitution at the age of fifteen, she wanted to support her two baby daughters and have a little money for herself. She was pretty and funny as hell, and although she called herself "Breezy," she was also tough--a survivor in every sense of the word. Over the next twenty-five years, she would move across the country, finding new pimps, parties, drugs, and endless, profound heartache. And she would begin to want something else, something huge: a life of dignity, self-acceptance, and love. Astonishingly, she managed to find the strength to break from an unsparing world and save not only herself but also future Breezys. We have no say into which worlds we are born. But sometimes we can find a way out." -- inside front jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374151690
  • ISBN: 0374151695
  • Physical Description: x, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Subject: Myers-Powell, Brenda.
Ex-prostitutes > United States > Biography.
Prostitutes > Rehabilitation > United States > Biography.
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 7 of 7 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 92 MYERS (Text) 50686015737138 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library B MYE (Text) 37268003107141 AHMFL Biography Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 305.48 MYE (Text) 33240004951607 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library NF 305.48 MYERS-POWELL (Text) 35031301184090 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Parkland Community Library B MYERS-POWELL MYE (Text) 34422007212471 Adult Biography Available -
Bethlehem Main Library B MYERS (Text) 33062009535197 Adult Biography Available -
Easton Main Library 305.488 M996ℓ (Text) 31901004521896 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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