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Report copyright infringementby Rod Nordland (Author)By the New York Times's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest circumstances"This is, by far, the most enlightening and inspiring book on facing death--and on discovering the beauty of life." --Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalistFor thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of...

Evanira Mendes: A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement

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Report copyright infringementby Eric A. Galm (Author)This compilation of Evanira Mendes's biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the trajectory of the Brazilian folklore movement, this book provides a new perspective on contemporary accounts that have overlooked the participation of women scholars from that era and seeks to grant Mendes the recognition she so richly deserves. Growin...

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Report copyright infringementby David B. Krier (Author)Life can be difficult, especially for those with limited resources in under-served parts of the world. But what can be done? Well, as it turns out, a lot! It usually doesn't take a special set of skills or costly gifts to make a difference; often, all they need is compassion. Within these pages, you'll find fascinating accounts of people living with daily difficulties in remote and beautiful parts of the world: A boy abandoned by his moth...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Mosby (Author)Unveiling Shadows of Coercive Control is a profoundly introspective and gripping narrative that takes readers on a harrowing journey through one woman's battle against relentless manipulation, betrayal, and systemic abuse. Kimberly Mosby courageously recounts a chilling sequence of events that shattered her life, violations that stripped her of financial security, disrupted her daily existence, and introduced harmful substances into her e...

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Report copyright infringementby Felicia Carbajal (Author), Ian Cummins (Editor), Louis Mendoza (Author)What impact on the safety of incarcerated individuals does race, gender, and sexual orientation have?Drawing on the lived experiences of survivors of harm and incarceration and personal experience, author Felicia Carbajal reflects on the correlation between growing up and living in an underserved community and being incarcerated. Harm to Healing examines how the language of abolition impacts...

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Report copyright infringementby Ravi Dutt Bajpai (Author), Swati Parashar (Author)This is the first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Padma Bhushan recipient and renowned scholar of Hindi, Awadhi and Sanskrit: Father Camille Bulcke (1909-1982). Father Bulcke came to India when it was still a British colony, found spiritual inspiration in the life and compositions of the great Indian poet Goswami Tulsidas, and emerged as one of the renowned exponents of the Ramkatha (The Story of Rama) ...

Trail of Bones: More Cases from the Files of a Forensic Anthropologist

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Report copyright infringementby Mary H. Manhein (Author)A fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and an expert on the human skeleton, Mary H. Manhein assists law enforcement officials across the country in identifying bodies and solving criminal cases. In Trail of Bones, her much-anticipated sequel to The Bone Lady, Manhein reveals the everyday realities of forensic anthropology. Going beyond the stereotypes portrayed on television, this real-life crime scene investigator unvei...

Becoming Wild: Essays on self and society

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Report copyright infringementby Alayna Cole (Author)Now is the only moment that we can tangibly influence, as individuals and as a society. Technology is evolving exponentially. Human rights are also arguably better than they have ever been. Despite the unprecedented nature of this moment, however, history repeats itself. Amnesty International found in its 2022-23 report that human rights are being eroded globally, with increases in global conflict and war crimes, double standards of wealthy ...

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Report copyright infringementby Murray Winn (Author)Embark on a poignant journey through the landscapes and lives of an Australian farmstead in the 1960s, now lost to time. In this heartfelt memoir, the author recounts the hilarious, sad, crazy, and desperate stories that defined their family's life on a farm. Relive when Grandpa Gerry burns down the old outside toilet, and when Auntie June realises, "WHAT, there's a COW in the HOUSE !!!"Through this evocative memoir, relive the laughter, tea...

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Report copyright infringementby Orlanda Shaw (Author)From Bums to Bentleys is a true, raw, uncensored story about the life and times of an innocent little girl from an inner-city ghetto ﬁlled with drugs, and violence, who didn't give up. That little girl is me, Orlanda Shaw. With the turn of each page, you will be more and more intrigued, as you dive deeper into the book to understand the mental mind state of a TRUE survivor. The Journey of the innocent girl who grew up in Detroit, one of the...

Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Muhammad Knight (Author)Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursues Muslim romance, is detained at the U.S.-Canadian border with a trunkload of Shia literature, crashes Islamic Society of North America conventions, stink-palms Cat Stevens, and limps across Chicago to find the grave of Noble Drew Al...

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Stone Blackwell (Author), Randolph Hollinghurst (Introduction by)Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the Woman's Journal, published this biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, in 1930, a decade after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Reprinted now for the first time, Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights is a fascinating, plainspoken document of an important era in women's history.Lucy Stone's biography is all the more impressive because she has b...

The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History

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Report copyright infringementby Charley Rosen (Author)A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side. Participating in the new game was a quick and enjoyable way to become Americanized. Jews not only dominated the sport for the next fifty-plus years but were also instrumental in modernizing the game. Barney Sedran was considered the best player in the country at the City Co...

No Way but Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip

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Report copyright infringementby Brian K. Barber (Author)What is life really like in the disparaged Gaza Strip? No Way but Forward takes you there via a set of deeply human accounts of three ordinary young Palestinian men over the past thirty years, including the year following October 7, 2023. Their lives have been riddled with oppressive military constraint, violence, humiliation, and loss. Yet along with their parents, wives, and children, they have persevered in making an honorable life fo...

The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border

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Report copyright infringementby Cristina Rathbone (Author)A remarkable, decimating work of reporting by award-winning journalist and priest Cristina Rathbone about asylum seekers trapped at a port of entry to the US: the trauma they carry, the community they create, and the faith they maintain. The Asylum Seekers offers a rare narrative account of the horror of the US-Mexico border. Borders run through author Cristina Rathbone too, whose mother was a Cuban refugee. So in 2019 she travels to J...

The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Wallace (Author)A thrilling investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin's creator and a deep dive into crypto's utopian origin story--from The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinegar "Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years."--James Patterson "The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto will leave you amazed, enlightened, and utterly breathless."--Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Roa...

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Callaci (Author)The "illuminating, honest, nuanced" (Robin D. G. Kelley) story of a radical campaign to change the way we value work Women do more than three-quarters of all the world's unpaid care work, contributing over $9 trillion to the global economy each year. Dishes don't clean themselves; dinner is not magically made; children must be cared for. But why is this work not compensated? Wages for Housework is the fascinating international story of S...

Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Santopietro (Author), Jeffrey Banks (Commentaries by)This is the definitive tribute to the glamor and character of a beloved icon, including rarely published details, photographs and stories about the lasting impact of Audrey Hepburn's remarkable life.Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion-- Audrey Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continue...

Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children

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Report copyright infringementby Noliwe Rooks (Author)A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author's family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a massive victory for civil rights, the decision's g...

Unceasing Militant, Second Edition: The Life of Mary Church Terrell

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Report copyright infringementby Alison M. Parker (Author)Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. The first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP, Terrell collaborated closely with the likes of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Unceasin...

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Nick Flynn (Author), Andre Dubus (Introduction by)Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other. The 20th anniversary edition, which features a foreword by Andre Dubus III, will introduce this modern classic to a new generation of readers. N...

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Blasey Ford (Author)Now a New York Times bestseller "A blisteringly personal memoir...a thoughtful exploration of what it feels like to become a main character in a major American reckoning." --The Washington Post"An insightful tour de force." --People On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She describ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Biggerstaff (Author)Radical Nurses unearths the extraordinary stories of 28 nurses who defied expectations, shattered norms, and redefined what it means to care. From fearless activists on the front lines of social justice to visionary writers who illuminated the profession, from steadfast nuns whose faith shaped their groundbreaking work to revolutionaries who risked everything to change the course of history, these women and men transcended the bou...

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Shechtman (Author)"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."--New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest.The indisputable "queen...

A Shortage of Grandparents: A Memoir of Loss and Discovery

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Meier Moss Katz (Author) Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Mary S. King (Author)A poignant and deeply personal memoir, Facing the Wall recounts the long and painful journey of a wife navigating life alongside a Vietnam War veteran struggling with PTSD. Through raw and heartfelt storytelling, Mary S. King shares the emotional toll of war's invisible wounds, the challenges of family life, and the resilience needed to find hope and healing. This compelling narrative sheds light on the lasting effects of trauma, offering u...

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Report copyright infringementby J. M. Tolcher (Author) Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.29 x 7.87 x 5.12 IN Publication Date: March 21, 2025

Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy A. Gaudin (Author)Shaped by centuries of migration, enslavement, freedom, colonization, and cultural mixture, Louisiana Creole identity is often simplified or misunderstood to fit into today's ideas about race and nationality. In Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole, Wendy A. Gaudin fearlessly takes on the many meanings of Creole in a lyrical exploration of how this multilayered, transnational, bilingual, and racially expansive history of New Orlean...

Ever Widening Circles & Mystical Moments: Autobiographical, Historical, Spiritual, Psychological & Political

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Shinoda Bolen (Author)Ever Widening Circles and Mystical Moments is a long-awaited memoir by Jean Shinoda Bolen MD that invites readers to journey through a life interwoven with personal experiences and historical events. The book begins with Bolen's childhood, marked by her Japanese American family's forced relocation from California following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This experience-along with her early eye surgery and frequent moves to different sta...

In The Footsteps Of A Bipolar Life: Life Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Abigail George (Author), Ambrose Cato George (Author)This book will display and demonstrate the imaginative and creative powers of the pen in combating the frailties and difficulties of a life faced head on with mental illness. We all suffer from mood swing. It is just how we deal, handle and cope with the preconceived notion, the ego and self-concept of the individual with regards to the conditioning and genetic predispositions we were raised with. The authors...

The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Peter Clark (Editor), Raymond Arsenault (Editor)"In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are, ' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine journalism can be. This is a wonderful, inspiring book."--Geneva Overholser, syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group, and Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, University of Missouri"Proves that journalism at its best can e...

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Report copyright infringementby Angie R. Douthit (Author)Life With Mike is a true story about living with, caring for, and loving a man with Down's syndrome. Mike Williams Douthit lived with Down's Syndrome for 55 years. During the last 17 years he was blessed to be cared for by the devoted mother he deserved, author Angie Douthit, the father he had always longed for, Brad Douthit, and the sisters and brothers he had constantly hoped for, Whitney, Kaylee, Mackenzie, and Zeke. This story focus...