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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
Sola Mahfouz - ?Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. "Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future." -- BILL... |
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Marrying Bipolar: The Highs And Lows Of Loving Someone With A Mental Illness
Natasha David - Soul Rocks Books
Format: Print book
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On the last day of winter in 2005, John committed suicide in his car on a lonely side road of the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, Australia. He was six months shy of his thirtieth birthday. It was the culmination of nine years of struggle for John and his wife, as he battled undiagnosed... |
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius
Bob Batchelor - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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"The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the 'Roaring Twenties' look like the 'Boring Twenties' in comparison. It's all here: murder, mayhem - and high-priced hootch." - David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents "An aggressive, ambitious... |
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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Lacy Crawford - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her--at any cost When the elite St. Paul's School recently came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual... |
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Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered
Tamara Leitner - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover
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In a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award-winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons.In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually... |
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My Story
Marilyn Monroe - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Book
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Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player... |
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Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
Craig Pittman - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Witty and passionate." - Lauren Groff"Craig Pittman has a remarkable talent for telling stories set in the Sunshine State that never fail to fascinate and entertain." - Gilbert King"The definitive book on one of America's least understood apex predators. The story... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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