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Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Grand Prize Winner of the HEARTEN Award presented by the Chanticleer International Book Awards
Award Winner in the Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction category of the 2021 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest
We can all make a difference.
Elementary-school teacher Diane Trull's life-defining moment happened when her fourth-grade reading class saw a photo of a cardboard box overflowing with homeless...
Award Winner in the Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction category of the 2021 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest
We can all make a difference.
Elementary-school teacher Diane Trull's life-defining moment happened when her fourth-grade reading class saw a photo of a cardboard box overflowing with homeless...
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St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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The funny, sad and compelling diary kept by an overweight teenage girl that became the basis for the British television sensation of the same name available to stream on HULU.
It's 1989 and Rae Earl is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint green bathroom and a refrigerator Rae can't keep away from.
She's also just been released
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
There is little in this world that a family cannot endure, if endure they must. For we all have it within us to lose everything, absolutely everything, and still find strength in the most simple, beautiful things.
Pat and Mandy Retzlaff lived a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe. Working all hours of the day on their sprawling ranch and raising three boisterous children, they savored the beauty of the veld and the diverse wildlife that...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Las memorias tan esperadas y tremendamente entretenidas de la leyenda del escenario Chita Rivera, tres veces ganadora del premio Tony, homenajeada en los Centros Kennedy y ganadora de la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad.
Era conocida como Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, hasta que Broadway le cambió el nombre. Pero Dolores, el lado irreverente de Chita Rivera, que es sensual, oscura y feroz, nunca se alejó
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"I absolutely loved it. It's so good. So real and heartfelt and funny and rich with life." –CHERYL STRAYED
A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: Shondaland, Real Simple, Country Living, PureWow, Glamour, Forbes, Scary Mommy, The Daily Beast, Goodreads, The Everygirl, Zibby Mag, and more!
A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries...
A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: Shondaland, Real Simple, Country Living, PureWow, Glamour, Forbes, Scary Mommy, The Daily Beast, Goodreads, The Everygirl, Zibby Mag, and more!
A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries...
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ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Linda Hale Bucklin's Inspiring Story of Forgiveness and Resilience
Beyond His Control is for anyone seeking to understand the power of forgiveness and resilience. Linda Hale Bucklin recounts her extraordinary life, the unraveling of her family, and her own journey of forgiveness. With this book, you will discover:
• The power of resilience and overcoming adversity
• The strength to forgive and find peace
• How to make the most of your...
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties. In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals, and summers spent...
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Publisher
Rootstock Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn't steal was the power of stories."
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster's Wife and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic while the author sheltered in place in his tiny Vermont town. While in isolation, he observed a small town at its best: neighbors helping neighbors, the joys of gardening, the pleasure of a
...10) Denial: A Memoir
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Denial is one of the most important books I have read in a decade....Brave, life-changing, and gripping as a thriller….A tour de force."
-Naomi Wolf
One of the world's foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, Jessica Stern has subtitled her book Denial, "A Memoir of Terror." A brave and astonishingly frank examination of her own unsolved rape at the age of fifteen, Denial investigates how the rape and its aftermath...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals and humans on the streets of California - and how he discovered what bonds all living creatures"--
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Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
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En este libro tan útil y necesario, que ofrece a los lectores herramientas de autoayuda a través de su autobiografía, la premiada periodista Mariana Atencio profundiza en lo que hace especial a cada persona y la forma en que podemos convertirnos en una fuerza positiva en un mundo quebrantado.
En su experiencia como corresponsal bilingüe para NBC News, Fusion y Univision, Mariana desarrolló una perspectiva
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Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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From a critically acclaimed, Pushcart Prizeânominated performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir about forging identity in the chasm between cultures and classes
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her motherâs upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her âholler rat,â her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family....
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her motherâs upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her âholler rat,â her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family....
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it."--Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women
"Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these...
Author
Publisher
Jaded Ibis Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Annie is pregnant with her first child and married to the love of her life. Then on one fateful night, her husband dies in an accident and Annie is left alone. Now Annie must navigate the trials of single motherhood, mourning, and learning to love again. Crafted with lightning bolts of joy and sorrow, The Fifth Chamber is a tender and lyrical memoir about the dance of loss and life, and how grief can make the heart beat stronger than ever before.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison...
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English
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"From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war--from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA crossfire was disguised as a cow kick. Jane developed a penchant...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
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Description
In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
19) Worthy
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Language
English
Description
"A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an intimate conversation with readers. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman's right and saving grace. An...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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New York Times Bestseller: An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker).
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse visit to...
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse visit to...
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