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Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Eddie Ahn - Ten Speed Graphic
Format: Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family's expectations.. Born in Texas...
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Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir

Annette Anthony - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of global travel and the 160 recipes it inspired.. Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir is a storied cookbook, a love letter to the author's tables in America, Europe, and Africa. From Philadelphia to Paris, Morocco to the Ivory Coast, Bologna to Greece to London, Always Enough...
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If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For

Molly Stillman - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm...
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Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq

Morgan Lerette - Knox Press
Format: Hardcover

Guns, Girls, and Greed is an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the scathing and dangerous life of mercenaries at war in Iraq.. Experience the world of private contractors conducting high-threat missions for a nascent Iraqi government in the hopes of rebuilding after the fall...
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If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Geraldine DeRuiter - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with...
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. . While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster...
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Kat the Dog: The remarkable tale of a rescued Spanish water dog

Alyson Sheldrake - Tadornini Publishing
Format: Paperback

A CAPTIVATING AND EMOTIONAL STORY OF SURVIVAL AND SECOND CHANCES. Escaping from a wretched existence on a rundown farm, a young Spanish water dog goes on the quest of a lifetime, in search of a family to love her and a place to call home. Follow Kat the Dog as she tells her heart-warming...
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Wild Colts Make the Best Horses: The Intrepid Life of Abigail Adams

Mary Rae Watry Mauch - Xlibris Us
Format: Hardcover

Join an adventure walking in the shoes of Abigail Adams, wife of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Many stepping stones along this journey are first-hand accounts of Abigail's correspondence before, during, and after the birth of her nation. Her forthright, knowledgeable...
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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Trish O'Kane - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid...
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Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and "does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it." This openhearted offering inspires. - Publishers WeeklyMostly...
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