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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains
Chuck Klosterman · Scribner; First Edition edition
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Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodness—but as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing it was because they were doing... |
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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
Hawa Abdi · Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, the Mother Teresa of Somalia and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally... |
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And Then Life Happens: A Memoir
Auma Obama · St. Martin's Press
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A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama.While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace... |
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Birding with Yeats: A Memoir
Lynn Thomson · House of Anansi Press |
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A mother’s memoir about raising a blended family, meditating on a different way of life, and bird-watching with her son, Yeats. Lynn is the mother of a blended family of four children. Birding with Yeats documents the five-year period when she and her youngest son start bird watching,... |
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Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov
Geoffrey Roberts · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Widely regarded as the most accomplished general of World War II, the Soviet military legend Marshal Georgy Zhukov at last gets the full-scale biographical treatment he has long deserved. A man of indomitable will and fierce determination, Georgy Zhukov was the Soviet Union’s... |
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