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Quilting Through Life: Patterns and Prose for Every Stage of Life (Spiral Bound to Lay Flat)

Jenny Doan - Harper Horizon
Format: Hardcover

Step-by-step quilting instructions and personal stories to inspire both seasoned pros and new quilters alike.America's quilter, Jenny Doan, has always believed that quilts are more than fabric and stitches. They become keepers of memories, milestones, and stories; creating profound...
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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

J. M. Thompson - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life."Voluntary or involuntary?" asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective...
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The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II

David A. Smith - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover

When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment...
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The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond

Prudence Wheelwright - Hachette Australia
Format: Hardcover

Prue Wheelwright is still in her thirties but she's already had a fascinating, action-packed career. As a nurse and midwife she has worked in remote Australia as well as parts of the world that are remote to Australia, thanks to her work with Médécins sans Frontières. From treating...
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Exit Interview

David Westin - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

When David Westin became president of ABC News in March 1997, the division was treading water. "It looked like all the really important news was behind us," he writes. Hardly. For the next thirteen years, Westin would preside over ABC News during some of the most important and perplexing...
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Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

Hopwood DePree
Format: Hardcover

HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story - with charm and humor in abundance - about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin.Hollywood producer Hopwood DePree had been told as a boy that an ancestor - who he was named for - had left his family's...
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Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care

Scott McGaugh - Arcade Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course...
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God Promised Me Wings to Fly: Life for Survivors After Suicide

Janet V. Grillo - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Janet's kindness and obvious caring of others shines through God Promised Me Wings to Fly. This honest, vulnerable, raw and inspiring recounting of her life's journey gives hope to readers no matter what devastating betrayal they are facing or financial adversity they must overcome....
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Wavewalker: The incredible true-story of a Sunday Times bestselling author's fight for freedom and education

Suzanne Heywood - William Collins
Format: Hardcover

'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing . . . a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all the world's great oceans - but is also the inspiring story of the developing of a restless and inquiring mind' SIMON...
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Sink: A Memoir

Joseph Earl Thomas - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon) , wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's desperate but volatile...
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