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One Life
Barbara Winton
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Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story. *Now a major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter*In 1938, 29-year-old "Nicky" cancelled... |
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Gather Me
Glory Edim
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A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.“A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed... |
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How Women Made Music
National Public Radio, Inc
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Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music—from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton—featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.Turning... |
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If You See Them
Vicki Sokolik
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A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends' couches,... |
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The MAGA Diaries
Tina Nguyen
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This explosive "must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our democracy" (Brian Stelter, New York Times bestselling author) chronicles the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career—and her education—on the ground levels... |
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America the Beautiful?
Blythe Roberson
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year —NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N""America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot tolerate trees or weather, wish I could've tagged along in the back seat."" — Samantha Irby, author... |
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This America of Ours
Nate Schweber
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Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America"A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion." –Terry Tempest Williams The untold and "energetic" history of the extraordinary... |
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Freaks of a Feather
Kacy Tellessen
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2023 Eugene Sledge Award Winner for best Marine Corps memoir of the past three yearsKacy Tellessen is a grunt. After completing high school in rural Washington, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and began the hero's journey he imagined might parallel those epic tales he'd consumed throughout... |
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What Do We Need Men For?
E. Jean Carroll
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A The Washington Post 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 "A work of comic genius." —Mary Norris, The New Yorker"Darkly humorous and deadly serious." –Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post "A compulsively interesting feminist memoir." –Virginia Heffernan, Slate"Somehow hilarious,... |
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Baring Witness
Holly Welker
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In Baring Witness, Holly Welker and thirty-six Mormon women write about devotion and love and luck, about the wonder of discovery, and about the journeys, both thorny and magical, to humor, grace, and contentment. They speak to a diversity of life experiences: what happens when one partner... |
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