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Episodes in my life : the autobiography of Jan Carew
Jan R Carew · Peepal Tree
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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Towards the end of a long and astonishingly full life, whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about, Jan Carew began writing his memoirs. A global, multifaceted man, they cover his multiple lives as Guyanese/Caribbean novelist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activist, the early... |
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Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony
Andrew Bloomfield · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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When aspiring screenwriter Andrew Bloomfield moved into a bungalow in Southern California he soon discovered that he shared the property with a large colony of feral cats - untamed, uninterested in human touch, not purring pets in waiting. But after a midnight attack by predators that... |
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Mile 46 : face to face in Maasailand
Joni Binder · Earth Aware Editions
Pages: 191
Format: Print book
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"Mile 46" unveils the intimate lives of a traditional Maasai family through the revealing photographs and journal entries of a young American woman who lived with them in a dung hut on the rugged outskirts of Kenya in 1988. More than a quarter of a century later, that same woman... |
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We Were There: Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963
Allen Childs MD · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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There are few days in American history so immortalized in public memory as November 22, 1963, the date of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Adding to the wealth of information about this tragic day is We Were There, a truly unique collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors... |
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Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
Lauren Drain · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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-Now a New York Times bestseller- Youve likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps youve seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year... |
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Candy at Last
Candy Spelling · Turner Pub Co; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The followup to the New York Times bestseller Stories from Candyland has even better stories to tell—about Candy Spelling’s notorious rift and reconciliation with her daughter, Tori, her misadventures in dating and sex, and her new life as a producer, writer, and businesswoman.... |
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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead · Crown Publishers
Pages: 293
Format: Print book
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969
Lyndon B Johnson · Holt
Pages: 636
Format: Book
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What is it about election years? The recent publication of the fourth volume in Robert Caro's massive biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson may not answer this question, but it does make us rethink the legacy of LBJ, and compel us to acknowledge the power, the responsibility... |
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Bob Drury · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight... |
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Prince: A Private View
AFSHIN SHAHIDI · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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When Prince wanted to document his One Nite Alone tour in 2002, he turned to Afshin Shahidi. Again in 2004, he went along on Prince's record breaking Musicology Tour. Afshin met Prince in 1989 and became his cinematographer and later his photographer. He was the photographer closest to Prince... |
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Warrior: A Memoir
Theresa Larson · HarperOne
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this inspiring memoir, a former female Marine platoon leader recalls the wars she has fought - on the playing field, the battlefield, and inside her own soul - revealing how overcoming the harrowing circumstances in her life helped her ultimately redefine what it means to be strong and what... |
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You're Better Than Me: A Memoir
Bonnie McFarlane · Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In the spirit of Mindy Kaling, Kelly Oxford, and Sarah Silverman, a compulsively readable and outrageously funny memoir of growing up as a fish out of water, finding your voice, and embracing your inner crazy-person, from popular actress, writer, and comedian Bonnie McFarlane. It took Bonnie... |
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Losing Tim: A Memoir
Janet Burroway · Think Piece Publishing, LLC
Format: Book
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Losing Tim is a memoir by a mother about a soldier son who killed himself. Its not an easy read. But its a beautiful one. Burroway, a National Book Award nominee, welcomes readers to grieve along with her, while also providing a lens into how soldiers, and military contractors, like her son,... |
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