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Falling Off Horses: A Memoir

Karen Donley-Hayes - Milspeak Books, Milspeak Foundation, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Karen and Lash meet as teenagers and form an immediate bond over their mutual love for horses. Year later, Lash marries, and she and her husband locate their dream acreage for building a home and an equestrian facility, only Lash's dream isn't complete if she can't convince...
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Nick Drake: The Life

Richard Morton Jack - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Experience the only authorized biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product...
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Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life

Matt Hay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment he'd fallen in love for the first time.As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound -- because of the workarounds he did to fit in, even...
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Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings (LOA #378): The Story of My Life / The World I Live In / Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Jour nals (Library of America, 378)

Helen Keller - Library of America
Format: Hardcover

In her own words, the legendary American icon who overcame adversity to become a brilliant writer and powerful advocate for the disabled: The Story of My Life, The World I Live In, plus a dozen revealing personal letters, public speeches, essays, and more Here, in a deluxe hardcover edition,...
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To the Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!: A Memoir

Ed Begley - Hachette Books
Format: Audio CD

Beloved actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. shares hilarious and poignant stories of his improbable life, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, the origins of his environmental activism, addiction and recovery, and his lifelong...
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The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

Diana Helmuth - S&S/Simon Element
Format: Hardcover

A skeptic's year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fans of A.J. Jacobs and Mary Roach.. Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired...
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old...
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

Raquel Willis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell...
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The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living

Bonnie Wan - S&S/Simon Element
Format: Hardcover

Start living an astonishing life with this "practical and accessible, moving and deeply meaningful" (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone) guided program for identifying your core values and aligning every area of your life with...
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Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Bianca Bosker - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Sheer pleasure: the best book I've ever read about contemporary art." - Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag. "Immersive reporting along the lines of George Plimpton or Barbara Ehrenreich with...a gift for clever formulations that recalls Oscar Wilde...
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