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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out

Annie E Clark · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From young activists at the forefront of the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses, a collection of survivor stories that will connect with students and inform and inspire us allAcross the U.S. student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college...
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A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth

Sacha Batthyany · Da Capo Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night,...
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Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman

Tammy Mal · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest...
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Little Labors

Rivka Galchen · New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Rivka Galchen's Little Labors is a droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies and literatureSei Shonagon's Pillow Book -- a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen's new book -- contains a list of "Things That Make One Nervous."...
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The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt

Eric Burns · Pegasus Books, 2016.
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most fascinating and written-about presidents in American history -- yet the most poignant tale about this larger-than-life man has never been told.More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate....
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Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

Jessica Weisberg · Nation Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice--from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss MannersAmericans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves...
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No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run

Tyler Wetherall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of growing up on the run -- and what happens when it comes to a stop."Lucid, tender, exquisitely re-imagined, and compulsively readable." -- Jessica Nelson, author of If Only You People Could Follow Directions"In this wondrous and richly detailed coming of age story,...
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope

John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

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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Love Warrior: A Memoir

Glennon Doyle Melton · Flatiron Books
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured...
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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator – The Life of Florence Gould

SUSAN RONALD · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris.Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris, aged eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability...
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Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I am One.

Ginger Zee · Kingswell
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range...
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Rise: How a House Built a Family

Cara Brookins · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

If you were inspired by Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, you'll love this extraordinary true story of a woman taking the greatest risk of her life in order to heal from the unthinkable. After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself....
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength

Liz Pryor · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: eBook

For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year...
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation

Anne Sebba · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs...
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Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church

Libby Phelps · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

It wasn't until Libby Phelps was an adult, a twenty-five year old, that she escaped the Westboro Baptist Church. She is the granddaughter of its founder, Fred Phelps, and when she left, the church and its values were all she'd known. She didn't tell her family she was leaving. It happened...
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