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The Secret Lies Within: An Inside Out Look at Overcoming Trauma and Finding Purpose in the Pain

Anne Beiler - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Library Binding

The Secret Lies Within in an inside-out look at the trauma and pain so many people experience in this lifetime and how breaking the silence is the first step to freedom. Many people experience trauma or pain and keep it to themselves, letting it become a secret that holds them captive....
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Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light

Maryanne O'Hara - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of The Year of Magical Thinking and Beautiful Boy, an emotionally raw and inspiring memoir that illuminates a mother's grief over the loss of her adult child and considers the hope of soulful connections that transcend the boundary of life and death.When their only child...
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Winfred Rembert - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted...
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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator The Life of Florence Gould

SUSAN RONALD - St. Martin's Press
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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Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

Erika Hayasaki - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other's existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds. The twins were born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1998, where their mother struggled...
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Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing

Rebekah Gregory - Revell
Format: Print book

On April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the brunt of the blast,...
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Target JFK: The Spy Who Killed Kennedy?

Robert K Wilcox - Regnery History
Format: Print book

He was born in Buenos Aires and educated in Geneva and Cuba. He was a daring WWII paratrooper who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day. He was a handsome, charming man who briefly worked as a Hollywood stuntman.He was also a spy who may have killed John F. Kennedy.The shocking new book...
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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Ali Wong - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession,...
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Always By My Side: Life Lessons from Millie and All the Dogs I've Loved

Edward Grinnan - Howard Books
Format: Print book

The editor-in-chief of Guideposts magazine shares the heartwarming story of Millie, his beloved golden retriever, and how she taught him to be a more compassionate person, deepened his faith, and inspired him on his long-term path of recovery from addiction.From the moment his new golden...
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Killing for You: A Brave Soldier, a Beautiful Dancer, and a Shocking Double Murder

Keith Elliot Greenberg - St. Martin's True Crime
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Killing For You is True Crime veteran Keith Elliot Greenberg's shocking, authoritative account of a brutal double murder. A KILLER PLOT Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan:...
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