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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer - Prszyski i S-ka
Format: Print book
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In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse... |
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Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
CHRYSTA BILTON - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, nuanced portrait of unforgettable characters thrown together by chance and DNA, Normal Family is a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance. What is a "normal family," and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton's magnetic,... |
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Julissa Arce - Center Street
Format: Print book
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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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This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir
Jenny Pentland - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame.Growing up, Jenny Pentland's life was a literal sitcom.... |
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Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home
JESSICA BERGER GROSS - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity.To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood - growing up in a "nice"... |
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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life? The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father... |
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Nelson Mandela
Terry Barber - Grass Roots Press
Format: Paperback
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Nelson Mandela is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language... |
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
Beth Nguyen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement.At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America.... |
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother... |
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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash
Alexander Masters - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Alexander Masters, the bestselling author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heapIn 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge.... |
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