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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

Mensun Bound - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

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Julissa Arce - Center Street
Format: Print book

For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American Dream? Julissa Arce shares her story in a riveting memoir.When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would...
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 A World on the Edge

Helen Rappaport - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former...
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It's Forever Strictly Personal: A Final Nostalgic Movie Memoir of 1992-1999

Eric Friedmann - Newman Springs
Format: Paperback

It's Forever Strictly Personal concludes Eric Friedmann's journey through the movies during the eight year period of 1992 to 1999. While he and the rest of the world embraced blockbuster motion pictures like Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Independence Day, Titanic and The Matrix,...
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Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Audrey Clare Farley - ?Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., a harrowing exploration of violence against children and its psychological and political consequences, from the author of The Unfit Heiress. In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study...
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In This Together: My Story

Ann Romney - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed...
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

Zhuqing Li - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other's best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before...
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion

These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn...
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Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped

Gioia Diliberto - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian...
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Joan of Arc: A History

Helen Castor - Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French...
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