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Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel
Cordelia Frances Biddle · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of rich and lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not be able to put it down." - Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi When Katharine Drexel was born in 1858, her grandfather,... |
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books
Andy Miller · Harper Perennial
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback
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An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones) - a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books. Nearing his fortieth birthday,... |
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gangs in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.
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I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
KHALIDA BROHI · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan - and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment
"Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and equality."... |
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Beloved Strangers: A Memoir
Maria Chaudhuri · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover
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One of Maria Chaudhuri's early memories growing up in Dhaka was planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Home was not an especially unhappy place, but in Maria's family, joy was ephemeral. With a mother who yearned for the mountains and the solitariness and freedom to pursue... |
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Unremarried Widow: A Memoir
Artis Henderson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming... |
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn · Penguin Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history
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Faith: Essays from Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists
Victoria Zackheim · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Print book
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Delve into this thought-provoking collection of personal essays from award-winning and bestselling authors who explore the perennial question What do I believe? Whether believer, skeptic, agnostic, atheist, or something other, these twenty-four authors share a fascinating, daring, and multifaceted... |
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The Beautiful Ones
Prince · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time - featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.
Prince was a musical... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon
John Lennon · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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John Lennon was a highly opinionated and controversial figure with a commanding personality and quick wit. And he made a point of living his adventurous life as openly as possible. Whether he was experimenting with LSD, Transcendental Meditation, primal therapy, macrobiotic diets, or recording... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams · Hanover Square
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison... |
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Face It
Debbie Harry · Dey Street Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A MULTILAYERED MEMOIR FROM A MULTIFACETED ARTIST As a musician, an actor, a muse, an icon, the breadth of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched by her almost Sphinx-like reticence about her inner life. Through it all - while being acclaimed as one of the most beautiful... |
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