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Grief and Grit(s): A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss When the World Was Upside-Down

Marsha Gray Hill - Forefront Books
Format: Hardcover

Marsha Gray Hill's Grief and Grit(s) is an emotional odyssey that illuminates the complexities of grief, while offering a beacon of hope and inspiration for those navigating their own journeys of loss. This extraordinary memoir serves as a testament to the resilience of the human...
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

Susan Page - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time - Barbara Walters - a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.. Barbara Walters was a force...
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Will Cockrell - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers - including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker - this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest.. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig.... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green.... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head.... These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.. For the very first...
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Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir (Economist Books)

Genevieve Kingston - S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Format: Hardcover

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY, LIFE-AFFIRMING MEMOIR YOU WILL EVER READ ABOUT THE POWER OF LOVE.. Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts...
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The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor

Zipora Klein Jakob - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving...
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

Anne Higonnet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Three women led a fashion revolution and turned themselves into international style celebrities.Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving...
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Paperback

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about...
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I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

Clare Mackintosh - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction debut with this deeply felt memoir of unfathomable loss, and infinite hope. "Grief has run through my life like thread through fabric; at times gossamer-thin and barely there, other times...
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The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

Bakari Sellers - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow.In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN, Bakari...
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