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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography.The incredible modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation... |
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Riding the Bus with My Sister
Rachel Simon - Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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In the ten years since Rachel Simon first invited the world to board the bus with her and her sister, Cool Beth, readers across the globe have been moved by their story. Now, in an updated edition with fifty pages of new content, Rachel Simon reflects on changes in her life, Beths life,... |
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Real Time
Pnina Kass - Clarion Books
Format: Print book
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas Wanninger is on a mission: to find out what his grandfather, a Nazi officer, did during World War II. Thomas is going to Israel to work on a kibbutz, where he will have access to a Jerusalem archive that may hold the information he seeks. His life is one of many... |
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Alisa Smith - Harmony Books
Format: Hardcover
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Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around them. They caught a trout, picked mushrooms, and mulled apples... |
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Timothy B Tyson - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina. On May 11, 1970,... |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson - NHLA READS-TO-GO
Format: Paperback
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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer... |
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One Amazing Thing
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Voice; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office... |
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The Essay: A Novel
Robin Yocum - Arcade
Format: Paperback
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Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with trouble. Jimmy Lee hails... |
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Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe
Tom Batiuk
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A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Lisa's Story go towards cancer research and education. Visit Lisa's Legacy Fund to learn more or to make a direct donation. A story from the comic strips that will make you laugh and cry Tom Batiuk spent several years as |
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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The Life We Bury
Allen Eskens - Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback
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College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
MARGARET ATWOOD - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Alias Grace and the Maddaddam trilogy: here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction, now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes a new introduction by the author.Offred... |
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerChristina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is an unforgettable story of friendship and second chances that highlights a little-known but historically significant movement in America's past - and it includes a special PS section for book clubs featuring insights,... |
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