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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
Jen Bricker · Baker Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to OvercomeJen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty... |
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Mike Huckabee · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York... |
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold · Crown
Pages: 305
Format: Print book
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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen · Random House Inc
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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Tell Me More: And 11 Other Important Things I'm Learning to Say
KELLY CORRIGAN · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth... |
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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Adam Resnick · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being "euphorically antisocial" and "sick in the head," he allows us to plunge even... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.; Mti edition
Format: eBook
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone... |
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
PATRISSE KAHN-CULLORS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born."This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized... |
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In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
Brittney Griner · It Books, 2014.
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her strength to overcome bullies and to embrace... |
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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious... |
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Scribe: My Life in Sports
Bob Ryan · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the quintessential American sportswriter. For the past twenty-five years, he has also been a regular on various... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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A Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and BookPage Best Book of 2014 A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then... |
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