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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Anna Pasternak · Ecco
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind the timeless classicWhen Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life... |
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My Broken Pieces: Mending the Wounds From Sexual Abuse Through Faith, Family and Love
Rosie Rivera · New American Library, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The sister of "La Diva de la Banda" - legendary Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera - opens up for the first time about Jenni's untimely death and her own triumph over abuse and addiction.Growing up as the youngest Rivera, Rosie was surrounded by unconditional love, support,... |
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Stirring the Pot: My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life
Jenny McCarthy · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much... |
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The Wealth of My Mother's Wisdom: The Lessons That Made My Life Rich
Terrence J · It Books
Format: Print book
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"It's amazing how much my mom did on my behalf. As a seventeen-year-old single mom with relatively little support and all the chips stacked against her, she was able to provide an incredible amount of support for me. Her lessons enriched my spirit, my emotions, and my relationship... |
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The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy after Heartbreak
Charles S. Sherman · Scribner
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered acatastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator for each breath As a young, ambitious rabbi at one of New York's... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories
Sam Harris · Gallery Books
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
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ham (noun) [hæm] 1 the hind leg of a hog, salted, smoked, and cured 2 second son of Noah 3 somebody who performs in an exaggerated showy style -always hamming it up Just when you thought you knew everything about ham, you discover that ham is also: 4 a reason to laugh about everyday... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal portrait.""Have... |
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Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home
Nina Stibbe · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively... |
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Churchill : A Life
Martin Gilbert · RosettaBooks, 2014.
Pages: 1088
Format: eBook
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Written by master historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert, this masterful single-volume work weaves together the detailed research from the author's eight-volume biography of the elder statesman, and features new information unavailable at the time of the original... |
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Richard Rubin · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 518
Format: Hardcover
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In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover... |
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Cold sweat : my father James Brown and me
Yamma Brown; Robin Gaby Fisher · Chicago Review Press
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business"--That's a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father's attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated... |
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