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Emperor Norton I: The Gentle Monarch of San Francisco

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Brown (Author)In 1859, a failed businessman in San Francisco made an extraordinary proclamation: he was Norton I, Emperor of the United States. What followed was even more extraordinary-rather than dismissing him as insane, San Francisco embraced him. In this gentle, reflective narrative, Jeremy Brown explores one of the most touching stories in American social history. Emperor Norton issued his own currency, which merchants accepted. Police officers sal...

Now With You, Now Without: My Journey Through Life and Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Kathyrn Leigh Scott (Author)In the final months of her husband's terminal illness, Kathryn Leigh Scott was determined to make the most of every precious minute they had left. Despite Geoff's debilitating condition and the difficulties of caregiving, the couple decided to travel the world. Anticipating new horizons and experiences was not only an embraceable antidote-it was the very heart of Kathryn's "If not now, when?"When the time came to face Geoff's inevita...

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Report copyright infringementby Wanjiru Warama (Author)The British vs. Kenya's Mau Mau is a provocative and remarkable family and community memoir told with honesty, clarity, and suspense. The book captures the opportunities gained and lost, the resilience of the Gȋkũyũ community told through the eyes of Wanjirũ Warama from age nine, as she forges against the tide of her pre-designed and determined farmhand lifestyle. Despite the odds of an African living in the 1950s Kenya getting an educati...

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Report copyright infringementby Wyl Menmuir (Author)From the lonely heights of mountains to the womblike depths of caves, stone has always drawn us in. In The Spirit of Stone, Wyl Menmuir explores the many ways in which rock and earth form part of our identities, histories, and futures. Across Britain and Ireland, rock is everywhere beneath our feet, shaping not only our landscapes but also our imaginations and the ways we live together. Moving across these lands, Wyl Menmuir's essays combin...

There's an E at the End: A Father's Quiet Legacy of Baseball, Blood, and Endurance

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Beede (Author)A father's voice. A son's reckoning. A life shaped by work, loss, and the game that gave it meaning. In There's an E at the End, Walter A. Beede tells the story of a boy growing up in working-class Massachusetts after his mother leaves and of the father whose quiet discipline, humor, and endurance become the code he carries into manhood. Set at kitchen tables, on frozen hills, in ball fields, hospital rooms, and dugouts, this memoir traces ...

Abducted by Lichen: An Interspecies Journey of Love, Healing, and Wisdom

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Siegel (Author)Personal story of the author's unexpected encounter with lichen in the natural world and the transformative and healing journey that unfolded Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2025

Your Verdict: A Judge's Reckoning With Law and Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqueline St Joan (Author)In 1967, only four days after the Supreme Court decided Loving v. Virginia, Jacqueline St. Joan married across the color line in Virginia-and lost her family as a result. What followed was a life shaped by the upheavals of the era: divorce, single motherhood, and deep involvement in the second wave of feminism, including relationships with both women and men.In the 1980s, St. Joan became a judge in Denver, presiding over cases that ex...

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Ragsdale (Author), Carlo Coppola (Foreword by)Poems in this collection brim with many themes, topics and moods: love, passion, sorrow; joy, empathy, wit; wonder, poignancy, ambiguity; and much more, authored by a unique literary talent demanding to be heard Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 23, 2026

A Striving After Wind: Valley of Redemption

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Traner (Author)This is the continuing saga of the Winston family, which has been uprooted from their affluent lifestyle in New York City and is now living on a farm in Iowa. None of the Winstons expected to share their father's vision of making the farm a success, but they became invested in their new home with loves and dreams of their own. Now they need to call upon their newly acquired self-reliance to grapple with the tragedies and heartaches of the ...

Healer in Exile - Untold Story of Dr Sushil Razdan

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Report copyright infringementby Sachin Razdan (Author)At its heart, this book is a testament to resilience - the kind that does not merely endure, buttransforms. A memoir of Dr. Sushil Razdan, as told to his son, it carries the story of a life rootedin service, healing, and an unwavering commitment to his homeland. A noted neurologist, Dr.Razdan chose to serve where he belonged, touching countless lives with his work.It also holds within it the story of a home once devastated by floods, yet p...

Stories I Tell Strangers: Personal Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Feather (Author)This is a collection of personal stories from the childhood memories of a girl growing up in Washington, DC, in the 1970s and 1980s. Like many of her generation, she was a product of divorced parents and was basically raised on neglect and hose water. Through rich, descriptive language, she describes her effort to figure out life on her own. These nostalgic, often relatable tales of road trips, detours, and mishaps evoke a time and place t...

More than Millions: Finding the Gold Within

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Report copyright infringementby Marcia Maizel-Clarke (Author)Millions worn. Millions loved. Millions sold.But that's only part of the story. In this heart-expanding, soul-nourishing journey, entrepreneur and jewelry whisperer Marcia Maizel-Clarkeinvites you behind the scenes of building Dogeared-a beloved jewelry brand born of purpose and possibility.But More than Millions isn't a how-I-built-this manual.It's a love letter to intuition, divine timing, and the wild grace of saying yes-especial...

America's First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell

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Report copyright infringementby Jane M. Friedman (Author), Sara Wilmot (Foreword by)This biography of Myra Bradwell brings long overdue attention to a woman who deserves to be ranked among the leading women's rights advocates of nineteenth-century America.During her lifetime, Myra Bradwell (1831-1894) - America's "first" woman lawyer as well as publisher and editor-in-chief of a prestigious legal newspaper - did more to establish and aid the rights of women and other legally handicapped peopl...

The Lives of the Caesars: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Suetonius (Author), Tom Holland (Translator), Tom Holland (Introduction by)A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail A Penguin Classic The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biographies invit...

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Report copyright infringementby Hane Selmani (Author)A Country Called Brooklyn: Blood Feuds, Family Honor & My Sister's MurderA gripping memoir about honor, family loyalty, and the search for truth after a brutal murder.Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under 500-year-old Albanian honor codes, Hane believed in fate, female submission, and God's plan. Her world seemed perfect-until her favorite sister, Jariyeh, was murdered by her husband. Suddenly nothing made sense. Why had God allowed it? Wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Pete Curtis (Author)He didn't run for applause. He ran because it was the only way to survive.From the deserts of North Africa to the frozen forests of occupied Europe, Sergeant Reggie Curtis has fought, bled, and endured. Captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a brutal Stalag camp in Poland, he refuses to be broken forcing him to plan his escape which sets him on a desperate journey across enemy territory-chased by the Gestapo's most relentless hunter, SS o...

Growing Up in Polyester: One Boy's Journey from Plaid Pants to Blue Jeans

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Lake (Author)What if the road to becoming yourself started in plaid polyester pants? Growing Up in Polyester is a funny, tender coming-of-age memoir about awkward adolescence, family love, and the slow, uneven journey from innocence to self-awareness. Christopher Lake looks back on a childhood shaped by freedom, embarrassment, quiet loyalty, and the people who carried him through it: a steady grandfather in plaid golf pants, a free-living mother who...

Trail of Thoughts: A True Story of Survival in Alaska's Remote Wilderness

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Report copyright infringementby David Lomax (Author)Alaska: A Land Without Mercy - A True Survival Story in the Alaskan WildernessFrom childhood, David was pushed into the raw heart of the Alaskan wilderness, working in remote villages where survival depended on strength, endurance, and an unbreakable will.This true Alaska survival story unfolds in isolation-where harsh weather, unforgiving terrain, and relentless expectations shaped every moment.Surrounded by beauty so fierce it bordered on ...

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Report copyright infringementby Chaun Webster (Author)A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways structural anti-Black violence has shaped his inheritance, and grapples with the question of how to know--and mourn--the kin he was never able to meet. webster is particularly drawn to his g...

Outlaw Patients - A Medical Marijuana Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Russell Barth (Author)Outlaw Patients is a raw, darkly funny, and deeply human memoir about life at the collision point of pain, protest, and prohibition. Medical cannabis patient and outspoken activist Russell Barth takes readers inside Canada's medical system-where compassion is rationed, bureaucracy is weaponized, and sick people are pushed to the margins for trying to survive.Alongside his wife, artist Christine Lowe, Barth navigates a world where following...

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Report copyright infringementby Stacey M. Robinson (Editor), Jameel D. Davis (Contribution by), Charkia Campbell (Author)Boss Lady: The Rebirth is a raw, deeply personal memoir and motivational guide by Charkia Campbell, a visionary entrepreneur and community leader from Cleveland, Ohio. The book serves as a masterclass in resilience, detailing Campbell's journey from being a sixteen-year-old mother who was "counted out" by society to becoming a powerhouse business owner.The narrative pulls b...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Sitze (Author) Growing up under the regime of a narcissistic parent is uniquely difficult. Once becoming an adult, the biggest problem is recognizing why it is different. Being born under this parenting style makes it seem normal rather than abusive. With ninja- like skills, the narcissist convinces the world that you are the problem.In this self-help book, Lisa shares how she finally navigated the lies, manipulations and twisted thinking that was trained ...

Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation

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Report copyright infringementby Vijay Gupta (Author), Pico Iyer (Foreword by)Violinist Vijay Gupta's searing memoir of prodigy, ambition, collapse, and renewal reveals how music is not just performance but also survival, a lifeline of human connection--for readers of Jeremy Denk's Every Good Boy Does Fine, Hua Hsu's Stay True, and Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World. By age twenty-five, Vijay Gupta had lived several lifetimes: he played Carnegie Hall at eight, studied at Juilliar...

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Report copyright infringementby Ginger Pittman (Author)The Gift Within Me: The Struggle That Made Me is a raw, fearless, and spiritually charged memoir of survival, destiny, and divine purpose.Born under a powerful spiritual alignment, Ginger Pittman knew from childhood that she was different. Marked by visions, intuition, and a gift she didn't yet understand, her life unfolded through trauma, abuse, teenage motherhood, betrayal, poverty, violence, and repeated brushes with danger. But this i...

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty for Love

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Report copyright infringementby Tj Allen (Author)Autobiography: TJ is a sexual assault survivor who was transferred with her spouse to another state after revealing the assault. Tensions increased between the couple, and TJ left the state for home. Meanwhile, her friends were having difficulties, and physical abuse was evident. TJ was able to leave her mental and physical abuse behind; however, her friends were not able to since they were in the Military. Number of Pages: 106 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Clint McCown (Author)Clint McCown grew up among men who cast very long shadows. His father was a war hero who rose to become a command-level special agent in the US Secret Service. As a teenager, McCown worked as a yard boy on the Gettysburg farm of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who imparted lessons in both hunting and battle strategies. With such formidable role models, young McCown felt pressured to prove himself, which led to impulsive and reckless ...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Barbezat (Author)Discover the intimate spaces that shaped one of the world's most iconic artists. Frida Kahlo at Home reveals how the places she inhabited-- and especially the famed Blue House--nurtured her creativity, identity, and extraordinary body of work. This compelling visual biography traces Kahlo's life through the places she loved, from her childhood in Coyoacán and her student years in Mexico City, to her time in the United States, and her f...

Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age

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Report copyright infringementby James M. Tabor (Author)In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and science itself still lacked a universal theory of electricity. But he believed that wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. In 1866, after enduring o...

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Report copyright infringementby Ivana Jancova (Author), Zuzana Jancova (Author)A masterful, action-packed graphic novel telling the story of one of the greatest soccer legends, Lionel MessiLionel Messi: The Graphic Novel brings to life the extraordinary story of one of the world's greatest soccer players. From his breakthrough at FC Barcelona to his triumphs with the Argentina national team, this book captures the moments that shaped a legend.Through striking visuals and captivating storytell...

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy N. Davis (Author)F.A.M.E. Life(TM) is not a polished story of survival told from a distance-it is a raw, unfiltered testimony of what it truly means to lose yourself... and fight your way back.In this powerful memoir, Wendy Nicole Davis invites readers into the depths of a seven-year journey marked by emotional, spiritual, and financial entanglement within a toxic relationship. With striking vulnerability and unwavering honesty, she dismantles the illusio...

Raoul Wallenberg's Champion: Morris Wolff's 42-Year Fight For Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Morris Wolff (Author)The story of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg and the author's efforts to rescue him from Soviet Union imprisonment It is widely known that the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, worked in Budapest, Hungary, during WWII to save the lives of over 100,000 Jews from Nazi extermination. But what happened after the hero disappeared in 1946? This never-before told story reveals Wallenberg's detention by the Russians and relates the legal and dipl...

Don't Run! Walk!: A Father and Son in the Shoah

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Report copyright infringementby Roman Polanski (Author)As part of the major heritage interview program conducted in 2006 by the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) in collaboration with the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Roman Polanski recorded his account of his childhood in Poland during the war. It was while writing that he remembered asking his father, in 1973, to write his memoirs. He recently rediscovered his father's account, which he had never read before. It now form...