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Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams
Margery M. Heffron · Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife and political partner of John Quincy Adams, became one of the most widely known women in America when her husband assumed office as sixth president in 1825. Shrewd, intellectual, and articulate, she was close to the center of American power over many... |
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoptionGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek... |
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My Battle Against Hitler: Faith, Truth, and Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich
John Henry Crosby · Image; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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How does a person become Hitlers enemy number one? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism. Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his intellect... |
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This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses
Lynne Sharon Schwartz · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover |
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Award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Lynne Sharon Schwartz returns with what is perhaps her most personal book yet. These memoirs, gathered under the title of "Intimacies," are exactly that. Intimate recollections of her life, beginning with her serious heart-valve surgery... |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover |
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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Patrice Lumumba
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja · Ohio University Press, 2014.
Pages: 164
Format: Print book |
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Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major... |
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How Did I Get Here?: Making Peace with the Road Not Taken
Jesse Browner · Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover |
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A literary exploration that asks seeks to answer the question: Have I lived the life I intended?Jesse Browner, a novelist with a full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent of the Talking Heads classic song "Once in a Lifetime." Based on an essay he wrote... |
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper · Revell; 10 Anv edition |
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In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed.After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced... |
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Robert L. O'Connell · Random House Trade Paperbacks |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.  Americas first celebrity... |
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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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