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AuthorHouse Leave Me Alone
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AuthorHouse Struggle Through the Twentieth Century
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AuthorHouse Before I Forget Book One a Memoir 19191967 Bk 1 Before I Forget A Memoir 19191967
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AuthorHouse Bending the Twig A Memoir
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AuthorHouse Bending the Twig A Memoir
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AuthorHouse The Chinese Ladys Secret
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AuthorHouse Eyes of Clear Skies Memories of WWII
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AuthorHouse Educating Nonny and Pops
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AuthorHouse A Forgiving at Assisi
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AuthorHouse Despatriado Man Without Country
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AuthorHouse On My Last Flicker
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AuthorHouse On My Last Flicker
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AuthorHouse Musings At The Cross Roads
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AuthorHouse My Autobiography With Illustrations
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AuthorHouse Sexual Lynching
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AuthorHouse Immigrants Son A Memoir and Essay
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AuthorHouse Defying the Fates The Remarkable Story of a Jew Who Survived in Nazi Europe
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AuthorHouse Growing Up Well Tales from an Orphans Asylum
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Hamilton Books Flight from a WarTorn Country
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Bloomsbury Academic A Practical Farmers Journey
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Running Press Book Publishers The Body Is a Doorway A Memoir
Book SynopsisIn this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores-with searing insight and honesty-the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves. At age sixteen Sophie Strand-bright, agile, fearless-is suddenly beset by unexplained, debilitating illness while on a family trip abroad. Her once vibrant life becomes a tangled miasma of medication, specialists, anaphylaxis, and seemingly never-ending attempts to explain what has gone so terribly wrong. And, for many years thereafter, Sophie''s life becomes subsumed with ideas not of health, but of explanation, and the narrative of how and why she became sick. But slowly, through both profound fatigue with the medical industrial complex and a deeply entwined relationship with the natural world, she comes to another, more fundamental understanding of what has happened to her body. What if sickness is not a separation from the body? What if health is not quite so easy to see? What if physical pain leaves us no choice but to return to our bodies, the pinpricks and lightning of illness stitching us back into a physical presence our society has taught us to ignore? In a work both expansively tender and shockingly frank, Sophie Strand offers readers a window onto her own winding journey through the maze of chronic illness-a web not unlike those created by the mycorrizhal fungi whose networks she begins to see as a metaphor for the profound connections between all species and the earth. Grounded deeply in the mountains of the Hudson Valley, each moment of this far-reaching narrative snakes its way through the multi-layered ecology of the land around us, from the stunningly powerful pollen of a phlox plant to the unexpected beauty and wisdom of the woodchuck. The Body Is a Doorway dives into the murky waters of sickness and trauma, as well as the resonant challenges and joys of friendship, young adulthood, first love, and fertility. Throughout, in precise, sparkling language, it explores questions both personal and universal: Is there healing beyond the human? Beyond the hope for a cure or a happy ending? Is there something wilder and more symbiotic beyond narrow ideas of well-being?
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Tuesdays with Morrie
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Bill Brysons African Diary
Book SynopsisFrom the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body comes a travel diary documenting a visit to Kenya. All royalties and profits go to CARE International. In the early fall of 2002, famed travel writer Bill Bryson journeyed to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. He arrived with a set of mental images of Africa gleaned from television broadcasts of low-budget Jungle Jim movies in his Iowa childhood and a single viewing of the film version of Out of Africa. (Also with some worries about tropical diseases, insects, and large predators.) But the vibrant reality of Kenya and its people took over the second he deplaned in Nairobi, and this diary records Bill Bryson’s impressions of his trip with his inimitable trademark style of wry observation and curious insight. From the wrenching poverty of the Kibera slum in Nairobi to the meticulously manicured grounds of the Karen Blixen house and the human fossil riches of the National Museum, Bryson registers the striking contrasts of a postcolonial society in transition. He visits the astoundingly vast Great Rift Valley; undergoes the rigors of a teeth-rattling train journey to Mombasa and a hair-whitening flight through a vicious storm; and visits the refugee camps and the agricultural and economic projects where dedicated CARE professionals wage noble and dogged war against poverty, dislocation, and corruption. Though brief in compass and duration, Bill Bryson’s African Diary is rich in irreverent, poignant, and morally instructive observation. Like all of this author’s work, it can make the reader laugh, think, and especially, feel all at the same time.
£12.75
Random House USA Inc Teach with Your Heart Lessons I Learned from the
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary memoir of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Freedom Writers Diary, who’s been hailed as “a true inspiration” (Hilary Swank) and “simply magical when it comes to inspiring people to action” (Los Angeles Times). Don’t miss the public television documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart In this passionate, poignant, and deeply personal memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic teacher who nurtured an extraordinary group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary—and the hit movie Freedom Writers—left off and brings the reader up to date on where the Freedom Writers are today. Including their unforgettable trip to Auschwitz, where they met with Holocaust surviv
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Random House USA Inc A Bold Fresh Piece Of Humanity
Book SynopsisOne day in 1957, in the third-grade classroom of St. Brigid’s parochial school, an exasperated Sister Mary Lurana bent over a restless young William O’Reilly and said, “William, you are a bold, fresh piece of humanity.” Little did she know that she was, early in his career as a troublemaker, defining the essence of Bill O’Reilly and providing him with the title of his brash and entertaining issues-based memoir. In his most intimate book yet, O’Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and his schools, and how his views on America’s proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent. What will
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Crown Lost Boy The True Story of One Mans Exile from a Polygamist Cult and His Brave Journey to Reclaim His Life
Book SynopsisIn the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and the harsh exile existence that so many boys face once they have been expelled by the sect. Brent Jeffs is the nephew of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the FLDS. The son of a prominent family in the church, Brent could have grown up to have multiple wives of his own and significant power in the 10,000-strong community. But he knew that behind the group’s pious public image—women in chaste dresses carrying babies on their hips—lay a much darker reality. So he walked away, and was the first to file a sexual-abuse lawsuit against his uncle. Now Brent shares his courageous story and tha
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University of Ottawa Press What I Wish I Had Told My Children
Book SynopsisIn this letter addressed to his children, we discover the extraordinary journey of Michel Bastarache, former Supreme Court judge: his childhood in Acadia and his multiple careers.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS ForewordAcknowledgementsPrefaceCHAPTER 1 “Speak White” CHAPTER 2 The Path CHAPTER 3 Stand UpCHAPTER 4 ActivistCHAPTER 5 Dead Ducks CHAPTER 6 What of Acadia?CHAPTER 7 Duality, Eh? CHAPTER 8 The Task Force That Would Change Everything CHAPTER 9 The Dream CHAPTER 10 The Battle of AlbertaCHAPTER 11 Salesman, Teacher, Bureaucrat, Lawyer CHAPTER 12 Assumption CHAPTER 13 PoliticsCHAPTER 14 The New Justice CHAPTER 15 GlobetrotterCHAPTER 16 A Historic CaseCHAPTER 17 Not in my CourtCHAPTER 18 The Battle Rages OnCHAPTER 19 Farewell to the CourtCHAPTER 20 One Hellish Commission CHAPTER 21 One Last Fascinating ChapterCONCLUSION
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Park Row Books Forever Boy
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Thomas Nelson Publishers All the Colors We Will See
Book Synopsis“With this exquisitely composed [essay collection], Patrice Gopo sets herself apart as one of the most promising and talented writers of faith of our time. All the Colors We Will See is evocative, compelling, surprising, and brave. Gopo has a special talent for weaving her story into the narratives of Scripture and for guiding the reader through some of the difficult realities of race, immigration, and identity in America with wisdom and grace. It’s rare to encounter a book that manages to be this honest and this generous with its readers at the same time. Every page, every sentence, is a gift!” —Rachel Held Evans, author, Searching for Sunday and Inspired Patrice Gopo grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, the child of Jamaican immigrants who had little experience being black in America. From her white Sunday school classes as a child, to her early days of marriage in South Africa, to a new home in the American South with a husband f
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Work in Progress
Book SynopsisQuirky, fun, encouraging, conversational, memoir-meets-inspirational-storytelling from the brother and sister stars of HGTV’s hit show Restored by the Fords.
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Harper Horizon How to Stitch an American Dream
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Hachette Books No Woman No Cry
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Rosetta Books The Collapse of the Third Republic
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Rosetta Books Too Close to Me
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Boekdiva Uitgewers Belonging
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Memory is the Weapon
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Digital on Demand Fearlessly Free to be Me
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Grove Atlantic A Man of Two Faces
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Grove Atlantic The Glorians
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Grove Atlantic One Aladdin Two Lamps
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Grove Atlantic Winter
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Random House USA Inc Sous Chef
Book SynopsisNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapid-fire succession, of what it takes to deliver an exceptional plate of food—the journey to excellence by way of exhaustion. Told in second-person narrative, Sous Chef is an immersive, adrenaline-fueled run that offers a fly-on-the-wall perspective on the food service industry, allowing readers to briefly inhabit the hidden world behind the kitchen doors, in real time. This exhilarating account provides regular diners and food enthusiasts alike a detailed insider’s perspective, while offering fledgling professional cooks an honest picture of what the future holds, ultimately giving voice to the hard work and dedication around which chefs have built their careers. In a kitchen where the highest standards are upheld and one misstep can result in disaster, Sous Chef conjures a greater appreciation for the thought, care, and focus that go into creating memorable and delicious fare. With grit, wit, and remarkable prose, Michael Gibney renders a beautiful and raw account of this demanding and sometimes overlooked profession, offering a nuanced perspective on the craft and art of food and service. Praise for Sous Chef “This is excellent writing—excellent!—and it is thrilling to see a debut author who has language and story and craft so well in hand. Though I would never ask my staff to read my own book, I would happily require them to read Michael Gibney’s.”—Gabrielle Hamilton “[Michael] Gibney has the soul of a poet and the stamina of a stevedore. . . . Tender and profane, his book will leave you with a permanent appreciation for all those people who ‘desire to feed, to nourish, to dish out the tasty bits of life.’”—The New York Times Book Review “A terrific nuts-and-bolts account of the real business of cooking as told from the trenches. No nonsense. This is what it takes.”—Anthony Bourdain “A wild ride, not unlike a roller coaster, and the reader experiences all the drama, tension, exhilaration, exhaustion and relief that accompany cooking in an upscale Manhattan restaurant.”—USA Today “Vibrantly written.”—Entertainment Weekly “Sizzling . . . Such culinary experience paired with linguistic panache is a rarity.”—The Daily Beast “Reveals the high-adrenaline dance behind your dinner.”—NPR
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St Martin's Press Means Of Escape
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Kensington Ernie
Book SynopsisWe wept at his Oscar-winning role in Marty. . .we gasped when he took on Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. . .we were riveted by his compelling performances in The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, and Ice Station Zebra. . .and we laughed at his television sitcom McHale's Navy. We loved all of Ernest Borgnine's many portrayals, but what did we know about the man behind the famous roles? Now for the first time, he tells us in his own words the fascinating story of his life in this witty, candid, and revealing memoir. For more than fifty years, Ernest--or Ernie as he's known to his friends--has been one of the most recognized, celebrated stars in Hollywood as well as a respected, talented actor, and a living legend. Stretching from his childhood as the son of Italian immigrants to a spectacular career that is still thriving in his 91st year, from the early days of live TV to the voiceovers for The Simpsons and SpongeBo
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Penguin Random House LLC She Looks Just Like You
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Penguin Random House LLC Surprised by God How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
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Penguin Random House LLC Into Great Silence A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
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