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Corpus Christi Public Library
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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
Helga Weiss · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time. In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. Along with some 45,000 Jews living in the city, Helgas family endured the first wave of the Nazi invasion her father was denied... |
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At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
Tsh Oxenreider · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world - seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way - she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten,... |
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Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias
John Dickie · PublicAffairs
Pages: 748
Format: Hardcover
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MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta,... |
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Sueños Sencillos: Memorias musicales
Linda Ronstadt · Simon & Schuster; Original edition
Format: Print book
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Al rastrear la cronología de su extraordinaria vida, Linda Ronstadt, una artista cuya carrera ha abarcado cinco décadas e incluye una amplia gama de estilos musicales, se entreteje una historia cautivante de sus orígenes en Tucson, Arizona, y su ascenso a la fama en la escena... |
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Marie Antoinette
David Grubin · PBS Home Video
Format: eVideo
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The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history. |
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
PAMELA PAUL · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books... |
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
Doug J Swanson · Viking
Pages: 355
Format: Book
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The astonishing story of Benny Binion - a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's... |
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Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
Frank McLynn · Da Capo Press
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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"Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to becoming Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing... |
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My Life with Bonnie and Clyde
Blanche Caldwell Barrow · University of Oklahoma Press; illustrated edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four accomplices, only one—Blanche... |
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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Renata Calverley · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors—among them Great... |
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
AMANDA STERN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.The... |
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