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The Currency of Love: A Courageous Journey to Finding the Love Within

JILL DODD - Atria/Enliven Books
Format: Hardcover

In this courageous and inspiring memoir about personal freedom and spiritual empowerment, Jill Dodd depicts her journey from Paris model to Saudi billionaire's harem wife to multi-million dollar business entrepreneur.In the 1980s, Jill Dodd determined that her ticket out of an abusive...
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

Anna Qu - Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Library Binding


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Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter

THOMAS SCHUEMAN - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Band of Brothers meets Argo in this dramatic and heartfelt dual memoir of the war in Afghanistan told by two men from opposite worlds. Always Faithful entwines the stories of Marine Major Tom Schueman, and his friend and Afghan interpreter, Zainullah "Zak" Zaki, as they describe...
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal

Taya Kyle - William Morrow
Format: eBook

The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private story an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband...
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Defiance: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard

STEPHEN TAYLOR - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant and unconventional figure, Anne Barnard lived a life that might have been the outline of a novel by her contemporary, Jane Austen, or by Edith Wharton.She was born in Scotland in 1772, lived at the heart of Georgian society, and yet defined herself by defiance of convention....
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Brutally Honest

The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl - and the truth behind the headlinesAs one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a.k.a Scary Spice, has been an international star since her twenties. Brutally Honest is an expos...
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Solito: A Memoir

JAVIER ZAMORA - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as "the mythic journey of our era" (Sandra Cisneros) Trip. My parents started using that word about a year...
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Food Saved Me: My Journey of Finding Health and Hope through the Power of Food

Danielle Walker - Tyndale Refresh
Format: Hardcover

Diagnosed with an extreme form of ulcerative colitis at 22, Danielle was terrified she'd never be able to eat all the wonderful, great-tasting foods she loved growing up or host warm, welcoming gatherings with family and friends. So when the medicine she was prescribed became almost...
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Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained

Kate Germano - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback

One woman's professional battle against systemic gender bias in the Marines and the lessons it holds for all of us.The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with...
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

Richard Engel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo...
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