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Random House Canada Run Hide Repeat
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionLonglisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging AuthorsAn unforgettable family tale of deception and betrayal, love and forgivenessPauline Dakin spent her childhood on the run. Without warning, her mother twice uprooted her and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Disturbing events interrupt their outwardly normal life: break-ins, car thefts, even physical attacks on a family friend. Many years later, her mother finally revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task
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Random House Canada Turning A Year in the Water
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors“Jessica J. Lee is a writer of rare and exhilarating grace. In Turning, she sounds the depths of lakes and her own life, never flinching from darkness, surfacing to fresh understandings of her place in the welter of natural and human history. A beautiful, moody, bracing debut.” —Kate Harris, award-winning author of Lands of Lost BordersThrough the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through 52 lakes in a single year, swimming through fear and heartbreak to find her place in the worldJessica J. Lee swims through all four seasons and especially loves the winter. I long for the ice. The sharp cut of freezing water on my feet. The immeasurable black of the lake at its coldest. Swimming then means cold, and pain, and elation. At the age of twenty-eight, Jessica, who
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The History Press Ltd Band on the Bus
Book SynopsisThis light-hearted account follows the group on their trip across deserts and mountains, as they undertook an incredible expedition that would be impossible today.
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The History Press Ltd A Pig Called Alice
Book SynopsisTo call Alice just another pig would be the gravest insult.' Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney's best friend, his confidante and his therapist. This is the story of their tempestuous relationship with all its ups-and-downs, from her arrival as a large, black and expensive' Christmas present for his wife to her last days as the matriarch of his traditional farm. In A Pig Called Alice, Heiney walks us through why lop-eared pigs are the best to raise (they can't see you coming), how to escape a sow that's decided you're her next mate (throw a bucket and run), and how, actually, pigs might have just got this whole life' situation sorted out.
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. All Things Consoled A Daughters Memoir
Book SynopsisFrom Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton.Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvellous sense of humour, was superlatively frugal; nothing got wasted, not even maggoty soup. Gordon was a proud and ambitious schoolteacher with a terrifying temper, a deep streak of melancholy, and a devotion to flowers, cars, words, and his wife. As old age collides with the tragedy of living too long, these once ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on Lizzie, the so-called difficult child. By looking after them in their final decline, she hopes to prove that she can be a good daughter after all.In this courageous memoir, written with tough-minded candour, tenderness, and wit, Elizabeth Hay lays bare t
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Thomas Nelson Publishers The Pact
Book SynopsisA story about the power of friendship, commitment, and the will to thrive.Trade ReviewPublishers Weekly Review: The Pact - Cody Garbrandt In this magnetic memoir, Garbrandt, former UFC bantamweight champion, chronicles how Maddux Maple, a five-year-old boy diagnosed with cancer, inspired him to dedicate himself to his fighting career and God. Garbrandt grew up in the working-class town of Uhrichsville, Ohio, and his childhood was dominated by conflict and violence. In grade school, he remembers, he was in a fight when the other boy's parole officer suddenly showed up, but instead of intervening, the officer watched. After Garbrandt's born-again uncle was released from prison and took Garbrandt under his wing, Garbrandt became serious about wrestling. By his early 20s, he was a talented wrestler and occasionally took on a mixed martial arts fight but kept and getting in trouble. Then, Garbrandt's brother learned of Maple's remarkable story on Facebook; Garbrandt met the boy and had an epiphany about how the influential people in his life had been leading him to God. In unadorned prose, Garbrandt candidly explains how this revelation allowed him to let go of past anger and provided the focus necessary for finally accomplishing his goal of becoming UFC champion. With brutal scenes of violence studded with moments of grace and revelation, Garbrandt's passionate story will appeal mainly to fans of mixed martial arts. (May) Reviewed on 03/23/2018 | Release date: 05/01/2018 | Details and amp; Permalink
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Kensington Publishing Will You Love Me
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Beacon Press All Our Families
Book SynopsisA provocation to reclaim our disability lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability, kinship, and careworkDisability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In All Our Families, disability studies scholar Jennifer Natalya Fink argues that this originates in our families. When we cut a disabled member out of the family story, disability remains a trauma as opposed to a shared and ordinary experience. This makes disability and its diagnosis traumatic and exceptional.Weaving together stories of members of her own family with sociohistorical research, Fink illustrates how the eradication of disabled people from family narratives is rooted in racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic sorting systems inherited from Nazis. By examining the rhetoric of genetic testing, she shows that a fear o
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Beacon Press All Our Families
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Random House USA Inc My Life So Far
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover Jane Fonda, in her own words—and now experience the story of her life in the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts.“To hold this book in your hands is to be astonished by how much living can be packed into sixty-plus years.”—Los Angeles Times America knows Jane Fonda as actress and activist, feminist and wife, workout guru and role model. In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda shows that she is much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite to her film career and her activism today, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes “can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently.” Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, My Life So Far is filled with insights into the personal struggles of a woman living a remarkable life.“In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes that ran through my life, a coherent arc to my journey that, if I could be truthful in the telling, might provide a road map for other women as they face the challenges of relationships, self-image, and forgiveness. What I did not anticipate was how my journey would also resonate with men.”—From the IntroductionPraise for My Life So Far“[A] sisterly, enveloping memoir . . . an intimate, haunting book that might as well be catnip from its ever controversial author.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Terrific . . . rich . . . unexpectedly quite moving.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely intelligent, detailed, probing, rigorously revealing.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Fonda possesses a raw and affecting candor. . . . Her honesty [is] a force.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A fearless book . . . fascinating.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Truly compelling.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Riveting.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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The University Press of Kentucky My Century in History Memoirs
Book SynopsisHis efforts resulted in the Commonwealth's first archival system and the subsequent creation of the Kentucky Library and Archives, the University of Kentucky Special Collections and Archives, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, the Kentucky History Center (recently named for him), and the University Press of Kentucky.Table of ContentsSherlock Holmes as Epistemologist Not the Crime, But the Man: Sherlock Holmes and Charles Augustus Milverton The Industrious Sherlock Holmes A Case of Insincerity: What Does it Mean to Deceive Someone Sherlock's Reasoning Toolbox Watsons, Adlers, Lestrades, and Moriarties: On the Nature of Friends and Enemies Eliminating the Impossible: Sherlock Holmes and the Supernatural Was it Morally Wrong to Kill Off Sherlock Holmes? Sherlock Holmes: Artist of Reason Sherlock Holmes and the Ethics of Hyper-Specialization Passionate Objectivity in Sherlock Holmes The Dog that Did Not Bark: Understanding and Evaluating Arguments from Silence Aristotle on Detective Fiction The Grim Reaper on Baker Street
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The University Press of Kentucky My Century in History Memoirs
Book SynopsisDoenecke examines the clash of opinions over the war during this transformative period and offers a fresh perspective on America's decision to enter World War I.Doenecke reappraises the public and private diplomacy of President Woodrow Wilson and his closest advisors and explores in great depth the response of Congress to the war.Table of ContentsSetting the Stage The Earliest Debates In Peril on the Sea Toward the Arabic Crisis Frustrating Times Tensions with Germany and Britain Preparedness Debates and the Presidential Election To End a Conflict The Break with Germany And the War Came
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University of Alabama Press Chains and Freedom Or the Life and Adventures of
Book SynopsisWheeler was northern-born - in New Jersey - and illegally sold and taken into New York State, then grew to adulthood held in slavery in the newly settled region of western New York. This book sows how dissension among abolitionists led to suspicion of Wheeler's editor/amanuensis, the white Presbyterian minister Charles Edwards Lester.Trade ReviewA unique book, a combination of an overlooked but important antebellum autobiography with a lengthy and insightful introduction.... Every college library should have it. - Douglas R. Egerton, author of He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi All the Leavings
Book SynopsisAt times heartbreaking, at times harrowing, All the Leavings navigates the rugged terrain not just of the rural Oregon land where Laurie Easter has forged an off-the-grid life, but of the ragtag terrain of the human heart.
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Creating Space My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
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Little Creek Press Spoke
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Core Media Group, Inc Truth The Kordell Stewart Story
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Crown Archetype Spaceman
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares incredible true stories from space—a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure. “Mike is a spaceman through and through; he tells how hard work can take you out of this world.”—Bill Nye the Science Guy Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you’re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind’s chance to unlock the universe’s secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.Massimino’s childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection.Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescope—which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission—Massimino has written an ode to never giving up, revealing just what having “the right stuff” really means.
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) She Wants It Desire Power and Toppling the
Book SynopsisNew York Times Editors’ Choice In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill’s parent came out as transgender, Jill pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create the groundbreaking and award-winning Amazon TV series Transparent. Exploring identity, love, sexuality, and the blurring of boundaries through the dynamics of a complicated and profoundly resonant American family, Transparent gave birth to a new cultural consciousness. While working on the show and exploding mainstream ideas about gender, Jill began to erase the lines on their own map, finding their voice as a director, show creator, and activist. She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy moves with urgent rhythms, wild candor, and razor-edged humor to chart Jill’s evolution from straig
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Random House USA Inc I Will Be Complete
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.“Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But when his father’s fortune disappeared and his parents divorced, Gold fell out of his well-curated Southern California life. He was now growing up by the side of his increasingly erratic mother, among con men and get-rich schemes in ‘70s San Francisco.Gold brings all his gifts as a novelist to a kaleidoscope of his most formative experiences: his salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale; the start of his writing career; and his es
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Picador USA Achtung Baby
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St Martin's Press Somebodys Daughter
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNBCC John Leonard Prize FinalistIndie BestsellerThis is a book people will be talking about forever. Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of UntamedFord's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling authorOne of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. She doesn't know how to
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St Martin's Press When Harry Met Minnie
Book Synopsis*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!* A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that kind of fairy tale, with the vibrant, romantic New York City backdrop of its namesake, the movie When Harry Met Sally, and the bittersweet wisdom of Tuesdays with Morrie.There's a special camaraderie among early-morning dog walkers. Gathering at dog runs in the park, or strolling through the farmer''s market at Union Square before the bustling crowd appears, fellow pet owners become familiaras do the personalities of their belo
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Flatiron Books No Time Like the Future
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Flatiron Books The Panic Years
Book SynopsisRenowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby?We have descriptors for many periods of lifeadolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisisbut there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name.Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux the panic years, and it is often characterized by a preoccupation with one major question: should I have a baby? And from theredo I want a baby? With whom should I have a baby? How will I know when I'm ready? Decisions made during this period suddenly take on more weight, as questions of love, career, friendship, fertility, and family clash together while peers begin the process of coupling and breeding. But this very important process is rarely written or talked about beyond the clichés of the ticking clock.Enter Frizzell, our comforting guide, wh
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St. Martin's Press Tanqueray
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply touching memoir . . . A beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literatureuntil now. The Washington PostThe storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest...She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in. Meet TANQUERAY.In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she's better known to HONY followers as Tanqueray, a born performer who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Reeling from a brutal childhood, immersed in a world of go-go dancers
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St Martin's Press Somebodys Daughter
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNBCC John Leonard Prize FinalistIndie BestsellerThis is a book people will be talking about forever. Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of UntamedFord's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling authorOne of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. She doesn't know how to
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St Martin's Press A Memoir of My Former Self
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Celadon Books Hollywood Park
Book Synopsis**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph.-O, The Oprah MagazineThis moving and profound memoir is for anyone who loves a good redemption story.-Good Morning America, 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020Several years ago, Jollett began writing Hollywood Park, the gripping and brutally honest memoir of his life. Published in the middle of the pandemic, it has gone on to become one of the summer's most celebrated books and a New York Times best seller... -Los Angeles MagazineHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and
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Celadon Books Hollywood Park
Book Synopsis**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A Gen-X This Boy's Life...Music and his fierce brilliance boost Jollett; a visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph.-O, The Oprah MagazineThis moving and profound memoir is for anyone who loves a good redemption story.-Good Morning America, 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020Several years ago, Jollett began writing Hollywood Park, the gripping and brutally honest memoir of his life. Published in the middle of the pandemic, it has gone on to become one of the summer's most celebrated books and a New York Times best seller... -Los Angeles MagazineHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and
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St Martin's Press Unbound
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSearing. Powerful. Needed. OprahSometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana's words are a testimony to liberation and love. Brené BrownFrom the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful wordsme tooand how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.Tarana didn't always have the courage to say me too. As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black l
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MacMillan Audio No Time Like the Future
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St Martin's Press While You Were Out
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard.But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfoldinga heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the u
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WW Norton & Co The Race to Be Myself
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to compete on her own terms.Trade Review"Caster’s story isn’t just a tale of perseverance and poise, it’s a story that makes us all interrogate our humanity and the world we build with our actions every day. An essential read." -- Trevor Noah"The Race to Be Myself is Semenya’s unburdening about that time, when she became a figure onto which the world projected all of its opinions about gender in sports… Semenya breaks her long silence, calling out her critics and asserting her right to be celebrated for her natural gifts, as other athletes are, rather than punished for them." -- Jenn A. Miller - New York Times Book Review"Revelatory." -- New York Times"[A]ffecting… This chronicle of supreme resilience will resonate even with non–sports fans." -- Publishers Weekly"Told with candor, Semenya’s story reminds readers to treat all humans with dignity and that being different does not mean being wrong." -- Booklist (starred review)"A furiously proud memoir.... Moving, inspiring testimony by a woman facing hardship merely "because of a biological condition I was born with."" -- Kirkus Reviews"A gripping, provocative book." -- Library Journal (starred review)
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WW Norton & Co The Lost Café Schindler
Book Synopsis"An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings." —Philippe Sands An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria.Trade Review"An extraordinary story—so cadenced and so moving." -- Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes"Intimate and often moving." -- Glenn C. Altschuler - Jerusalem Post"Affecting.... Ms. Schindler’s insight-filled reckoning with the past can’t help but leave behind a bitter taste that no amount of Sacher torte can disguise." -- Diane Cole - Wall Street Journal"Rigorously researched, The Lost Café Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.…It distinguishes itself through its combination of mystery and reconciliation." -- Anne Joseph - The Times (UK)"The most fascinating—and devastating—family history.…not just a genealogical exploration.…it sets out the wider experiences of the Jewish population of the Austro-Hungarian empire, weaving in the story of how antisemitism took root.…The stories could scarcely be more powerful." -- The Sunday Times (UK)"[Meriel] Schindler takes us on a journey that spans 150 years and threads across countries and continents as she uncovers her family’s history. Weaving her relatives’ personal lives into the turbulent frame of European history, Schindler moves back and forth between the public and the private realms. Lovingly written and astutely observed, The Lost Café Schindler is a meditation on loss: personal loss and loss of historic significance." -- Debórah Dwork, coauthor, with Robert Jan van Pelt, of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946"This almost unbearably touching book traces an extraordinarily diligent and sensitive process of family rediscovery. Meriel Schindler shows us how short the window of opportunity for Central European Jews was and how lasting an imprint they nonetheless left behind." -- Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the Holocaust"Meriel Schindler’s research is prodigious, her writing compelling, and her discoveries large and small reunite her with her far-flung family and with the community that exploited them, impoverished them, persecuted them, and even murdered some of them. Through the history of one family, the entire history of the Holocaust and the struggle to rebuild after the Holocaust unfolds.…I was moved to take this journey with her." -- Michael Berenbaum, professor of Jewish studies and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, American Jewish University, Los Angeles"The Lost Café Schindler seamlessly melds two riveting histories, the tumultuous story of Jewish life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the gripping tale of a remarkable family. Meriel Schindler’s account is a powerful personal journey of discovery. This extremely well-researched and beautifully written story is one that will linger long after the last page." -- Gerald L. Posner, coauthor of Mengele: The Complete Story"Impressively researched." -- Claire Allfree - Evening Standard (UK)"Powerful.…Beyond the compelling personal details, the author chillingly documents how the livelihoods of Austrian Jews were destroyed, ‘systematically stripped of their assets, at bargain-basement prices’.…Throughout, Schindler writes vividly about representation, memory, and the aftermath of atrocity. A significant addition to the literature on the Holocaust." -- Kirkus, starred review"Skillfully crafted.…reads like a novel.…A must-read work of narrative nonfiction that's highly recommended for readers of memoirs or 20th-century European history." -- Library Journal, starred review
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WW Norton & Co Fifty Sounds A Memoir of Language Learning and
Book SynopsisFor anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue.Trade Review"Barton as a writer is searching, analytical, sharp.... Reading Barton in critical conversation with other texts—she loves Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet—is a joy. Particular vignettes, like when she describes the uncomfortable feeling of having to explain her work at a party as giro-giro (the sound of eyes riveting deep into holes in your self-belief, or vicariously visiting the Nocturama, or every party where you have to introduce yourself), or a harmless but softly mortifying exchange with a student’s parent as yochi-yochi (the sound of tottering [at last]), read as revelations.... Barton’s insight into and passion for language is ultimately a wonder.... turning a rather universal experience into something new, exciting, and fresh—a brand new world of speech and meaning to explore." -- Christine Drill - Chicago Review of Books"In a tone that’s contemplative and playful, she ruminates on the works of Barthes, Wittgenstein, and Anne Caron, among others, to offer thought-provoking insights into literary translation as ‘a form of activism’ and refuge . . . Filled with linguistic surprises and a quiet intellect, this is sure to delight language learners and literary readers alike." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] sharp, belletristic debut . . . A refreshingly honest and novel look at the nuance and revelatory power of language." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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WW Norton & Co Home in the World A Memoir
Book SynopsisFrom Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to betterment of humanity.Trade Review"Stirred in with Mr. Sen’s memories, which are bright in their detail and freshness, are meditations of various sorts: on the balance-sheet of British rule in India; on the importance of classical languages in a young person’s education; on the philosophical disagreements (of which there were many) between Mahatma Gandhi and the poet Rabindranath Tagore (like Mr. Sen, a Nobel laureate and Bengali); on the ghastly Bengal famine of 1943, which killed three million people; and on the differences between Britain and the U.S. in their respective approaches to an understanding of economics. . . . The most compelling chapters of Mr. Sen’s memoirs are... those that dwell lovingly—even languorously—on his childhood and schooling. . . . [Sen] is an unflinching man of science but also insistently humane. His many ardent admirers regard him as an economist for the downtrodden. How he arrived at his status of global progressive icon would make a compelling storyline for his next memoir." -- Tunku Varadarajan - Wall Street Journal"[A] graceful and hopeful book... [A] belief in shared humanity, and an attendant commitment to inclusiveness and tolerance, have been significant to Sen’s body of work, including his desire to connect abstract economic theories with real people and real problems... He joyfully recalls his undergraduate studies in Calcutta, where he spent hours in a local coffeehouse in intense conversation with classmates.... Sen is such a charming and engaging narrator that he makes recaps of quarrels over Keynesian economics appealing – not to mention understandable to laypeople." -- Barbara Spindel - Christian Science Monitor"Sen is so engaging, so full of charm and has such a clear gift for the graceful sentence. It’s a wonderful book, the portrait of a citizen of the world." -- Philip Hensher - The Spectator [UK]"Sen is more than an economist, a moral philosopher or even an academic. He is a life-long campaigner, through scholarship and activism, via friendships and the occasional enemy, for a more noble idea of home—and therefore of the world." -- Edward Luce - Financial Times"[A] moving, heartfelt memoir of his early life before and after Partition in Bengali India . . . Illuminating and wonderfully accessible as both an intimate coming-of-age tale and a crash course in economics." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"[A] quietly captivating memoir . . . [A] contemplative travelogue and a fascinating look into the singular consciousness of one of the world’s foremost thinkers . . . [A] galvanizing reflection on a roaming life." -- Publishers Weekly"A vivid memoir, recommended for those interested in the intersection of economics and social science." -- Caren Nichter - Library Journal"Charting diverse influences—Gandhi to Rabindranath Tagore to Wittgenstein to Adam Smith—Sen reiterates that his intellectual proclivities have always spilled beyond narrow disciplinary confines . . . his autobiography suggests an enduring commitment to intellectual work with social purpose." -- Booklist
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The House that Cheese Built
Book SynopsisA USA TODAY BESTSELLERA quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope. Leal came to the U.S. penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the U.S. market and grew his company to a multimillion-dollar success story that defined an industry. Yet, like many successful entrepreneurs, Leal's great successes were matched by personal failures: the end of a marriage; trouble with law enforcement; and the deeply felt sense that there must be something more to life than great wealth. Read the astounding memoir of a Mexican immigrant who worked hisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue: The House that Cheese Built ix Part I Castaway 1 1 Death of the Transformer 3 2 Desire More 19 3 Create Opportunity 43 Part II From Cheese Cutter to Factory Owner 67 4 Learn to Pivot 69 5 Doing Business with the Amish 89 6 Say Cheese 97 Part III Living the American Dream 111 7 Expulsion and Reinvention 113 8 Shooting Pigeons 141 9 One Last Cheese 147 Part IV Betrayal and Grace 165 10 Big Money 167 11 Betrayal 191 12 Fighting for My Life 209 13 Four Days in Court 219 14 Prison Days and Finding Grace 233 Epilogue: Key Lessons for Entrepreneurs 241 About the Author 249 Index 251
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Random House USA Inc Save Me the Plums
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Tyndale House Publishers QUIET STRENGTH PB The Principles Practices
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National Geographic Society The Catch Me If You Can
Book SynopsisIn this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections. It was a daunting task. But Jessica Nabongo, the beloved voice behind the popular website The Catch Me if You Can, made it happen, completing her journey to all 195 UN-recognized countries in the world in October 2019. Now, in this one-of-a-kind memoir, she reveals her top 100 destinations from her global adventure. Beautifully illustrated with Nabongo's own photography, the book documents her remarkable experiences in each country, including: A harrowing scooter accident in Nauru, the world’s least visited country, Seeing the life and community swarming around the Hazrat Ali Mazar mosque in Afghanistan, Horse
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Thorndike Striving Reader Night A Memoir
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Chronicle Books Scarred
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd TwentySeven Letters to My Daughter
Book SynopsisWhen death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child. As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and - above all - her family. The kind of people who weren't dissuaded by little things like cancer. Or war. Or loss. Or a charging elephant. This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves.
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Amazon Publishing COMING CLEAN
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Tyndale House Publishers A Sea Between Us
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Amazon Publishing Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary memoir of one woman’s fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside São Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger brother were suddenly put up for adoption. When one door closed on the only life Christiana had ever known and on the woman who protected her with all her heart, a new one opened. As Christina Rickardsson, she’s raised by caring adoptive parents in Sweden, far from the despairing favelas of her childhood. Accomplished and outwardly “normal,” Christina is also filled with rage over what she’s lost and having to adapt to a new reality while struggling with the traumas of her youth. When her world falls apart again as an adult, Christina returns to Brazil to finally confront her past and unlock the truth of what really happened to Christiana Mara Coelho. A memoir of two selves, Never Stop Walking is the moving story of the profound love between families and one woman’s journey from grief and loss to survival and self-discovery.Trade Review“Both candid and compelling, Rickardsson’s story is not only about a woman seeking to heal the fractures inherent in a transnational identity; it is also a moving meditation on poverty, injustice, and the meaning of family. A thought-provoking and humane memoir of survival and self-discovery.” —Kirkus Reviews “A haunting story of balancing identities, Rickardsson’s debut is an unforgettable meditation on the weight of early childhood trauma and recovery.” —Booklist
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Amazon Publishing Stray: Memoir of a Runaway
Book SynopsisBrutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself. After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and survival—whatever she is heading toward has to be better than what she is leaving behind. Struggling with her inner demons, Tanya must learn to take care of herself during two chaotic years in the working-class mill town of Port Alberni, followed by the early-nineties underground goth scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. She finds a chosen family in her fellow misfits, and the bond they form is fierce and unflinching. Told with raw honesty and strength, Stray reveals Tanya’s fight to embrace the vulnerable, beguiling parts of herself and heal the wounds of her past as she forges her own path to a new life.
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