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Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America
Ranya Tabari Idliby · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 239
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For many Americans, the words 'American' and 'Muslim' simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family -- the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their... |
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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
WILLIE PARKER · 37 INK
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor... |
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In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
Joseph Luzzi · Harper Wave; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning - a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating... |
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Frances Stroh · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great... |
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Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter's Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy
Elizabeth Rynecki · NAL
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
The memoir of one woman's emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II.
Moshe Rynecki's body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end. It was his great-granddaughter... |
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Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante
Larry Mcshane · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
"Full of astonishment . . . a kind of dark wonder." --Pete Hamill
This is the story of Vincent Louis Gigante, the Genovese Family crime overlord who ruled a sprawling criminal empire for a quarter century with an iron--and deadly--fist. Vinnie "Chin" Gigante displayed... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy · William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Long thought to be statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, wrongful convictions -- we are just beginning to learn... |
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Blanche Wiesen Cook · Viking
Pages: 688
Format: Print book |
"Outstanding ... A winning concluding volume in a series that does for Eleanor Roosevelt what Robert Caro has done for Lyndon Johnson." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.
Historians,... |
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I Me Mine: The Extended Edition
George Harrison · Genesis Publications
Pages: 569
Format: Hardcover |
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Cherished by fans and collectors, I Me Mine is the closest we will ever come to George Harrison's autobiography. This new edition has been significantly developed since the 1980 original; now printed in color, and with previously unseen archive material, the book covers the full... |
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Rachel Swaby · Broadway Books |
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Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of historys brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.... |
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