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Saved for a Purpose: A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values
James A. Joseph · Duke University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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The son of a minister, James A. Joseph grew up in Louisiana's Cajun country, where his parents taught him the value of education and the importance of serving others. These lessons inspired him to follow a career path that came to include working in senior executive or advisory positions... |
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Guardian of the Golden Gate: Protecting the Line Between Hope and Despair
Kevin Briggs · Ascend Books LLC
Format: Hardcover |
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The wind was gusting around the Golden Gate Bridge on a March afternoon in 2005 when a 22-year-old man climbed the railing, convinced he and this world would be better without each other. He put himself on a thin beam 220 feet above the Pacific Ocean. The man had just lost his job and felt... |
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How Did You Do It, Truett?: A Recipe for Success
S. Truett Cathy · Looking Glass Press
Format: Hardcover |
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How does the man working behind the counter of a mom-and-pop diner for twenty-one years turn a good idea into a restaurant chain worth billion annual sales S Truett Cathy founder and CEO of Chick-fil-A shares the answers in How Did You Do It Truett The inventor of the chicken sandwich... |
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
Peter Graham · Skyhorse
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover |
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On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme - better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry - and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline's mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline's mother had had an accident.... |
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
Althea McDowell Altemus · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York... |
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Bettyville: A Memoir
George Hodgman · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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"A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom." - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club
"The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris,... |
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David Wilkerson: The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who Believed
Gary Wilkerson · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover |
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This is the story of David Wilkerson, the man who believed against the odds that God could do great things in the rejected and ignored of New York City, who refused to give up on those on the streets even when they had given up on themselves, and who saw in the eyes of the drug addicts... |
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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern
Thomas J Knock · Princeton University Press, 2016.
Pages: 544
Format: Print book |
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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life from his rustic boyhood... |
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