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Report copyright infringementby Mark R. Hecht (Author)Running Away From Stalin is the harrowing tale of a man who lived under Stalin and Hitler before finding freedom.Most people believe that Nazi Germany perpetrated the largest ethnic cleansing the world had ever seen but that is not true. At the close of WWII, it was ironically, mostly ethnic Germans that faced the largest ethnic cleansing and forced migration the world has ever known.Around 25 million people were forced from their homes in...

Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World - Paperback

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by Rachel Quinney (Author)From Mothman to the Mongolian Death Worm, Shellycoat to Simurgh, Nessie to even Ningyo, this charming and creative collection of cryptids will fascinate readers for years to come. Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters and Mythos from Around the World features 90 different creatures from around the world, each with their own researched description and full-color illustrations. The book is divided into three sections: cryptids, folklore, and mytholog...

Critical Service Learning Toolkit: Social Work Strategies for Promoting Healthy Youth Development - Paperback

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by Annette Johnson (Author), Cassandra McKay-Jackson (Author), Giesela Grumbach (Author)Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development. Designed as a user-friendly guide to carrying out successful CSL projects, this Toolkit provides practitioners with step-by-step assistance in planning, implementing, and evaluating Critical Service Learning (CSL) projects in element...

Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012

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Report copyright infringementby Arizona Press Women (Author)Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive...and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since Arizona became the forty-eighth state in the Union. They capture the emotions, the monumental and often overlooked events, and the pioneer...

Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Wasserman (Author)Now in paperback: an exhilarating journey through the world of books, ideas, and activism; a finalist for the Foreword Reviews INDIES Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction. "Steve Wasserman is a treasure of American letters and his book is a testament, above all, to a literary life lived to the fullest." --Héctor TobarBorn on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perh...

Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Adams O'Connell (Author)As a medical sociologist, Virginia Adams O'Connell long studied the healthcare system and people navigating illness. Then, in 2019, she confronted her own reality of being diagnosed with primary bone lymphoma. "Since my diagnosis, I joined a club of current and past patients that I never wanted or intended to join," she writes with both candor and poignancy, adding, "But we can collectively work to make it the best club it can b...

Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Anderson (Author), George W. Pickering (Author)In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a protracted local struggle to force equality in education and open housing for blacks, the city also became the focus of national attention in the summer of 1966 as Ma...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Odell (Author)Praise for the New York Times bestseller Anna: The Biography "Odell's insights...are fascinating." --The New York Times "A wonderful romp through Wintour's world: couture at its juiciest." --The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Amy Odell takes readers inside the world of one of the most influential and polarizing celebrities of the modern era--complete with exclusive new stories about her childhood, acting career, romances, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Rax King (Author)From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different: Bettie Page meets Carrie Bradshaw."--Washington Post With Rax King's trademark blend of irreverent humor and heartfelt honesty comes a new collection of personal essays unpacking bad behavior. Sloppy explores sobriety, begrudging self-improvement,...

Inside the AIDS Fight: Memoir of an Epidemiologist at the Pandemic Front Lines

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Report copyright infringementby Harry W. Haverkos (Author)Dr. Harry W. Haverkos had his first encounter with an AIDS patient in 1980. Three years later, he challenged the widely accepted belief that the sole cause of AIDS was HIV, proposing that factors like nitrite inhalants and cytomegalovirus also played a role in AIDS progression. In his investigations of the disease with the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, the US Public Health Service, and the US Department of Health and Human Servi...

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy

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Report copyright infringementby Tre Johnson (Author)A powerful read redefining the meaning of genius while illuminating the ways in which Black Americans have found various ways to thrive despite insurmountable obstacles. Black genius sits at the heart of the American story. In his probing essay collection, Black Genius, cultural critic Tre Johnson examines how Black American culture has, against all odds, been the lifeblood of American ingenuity. At times using his own personal and professio...

Scarred: A Memoir of a Childhood Stolen and a Life Reclaimed

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Report copyright infringementby Clark Fredericks (Author)A memoir of trauma and transformation by a man who was haunted by childhood abuse but who fought his way back--a journey from vengeance and prison to freedom and redemption. For a boy growing up in the 1970s, rural northern New Jersey was a year-round playground, filled with secret fishing holes, enchanted woods, and private trails to explore with friends. But this childhood idyll was snatched from Clark Fredericks by a man he regarded...

Women of the Constitution: Wives of the Signers

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Report copyright infringementby Janice E. McKenney (Author)Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This book will be the first work devoted exclusively to providing brief biographies of the forty-three wives of the signers of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. Author BiographyJanice E. McKenney is a military historian and is retired from the U.S. Army Center...

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Report copyright infringementby Melani Martinez (Author)Southwest Book of the Year 2024 Shortlist for Kitchen Arts & Letters second annual Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship Set in one of Tucson's first tamal and tortilla factories, The Molino is a hybrid memoir that reckons with one family's loss of home, food, and faith. Weaving together history, culture, and Mexican food traditions, Melani Martinez shares the story of her family's life and work in the heart of their ...

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Report copyright infringementby Randolph Lancaster (Author)Synopsis: I've been trying to convince people that the justice system is corrupt for what feels like my whole life. And with all that's been going on lately, people are actually starting to believe me! This book combines some of the personal experiences that made an impression on me throughout my life with some of the news and political stories that helped me understand the larger problems our country faced. From Chappaquiddick to Rub...

Apron to Cap & Gown: Teen Bride to Scholar, 1950s-1970s

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Schackel (Author)Suddenly, I thought: There must be some other way to be married. This powerful epiphany underpins Schackel's journey from a 1950s teen wife and mom living through second wave feminism-a cultural tremor that would shake up the way women in the 1960s and '70s viewed their lives and identity. The author married her teenage boyfriend and gave birth to their first child before she graduated high school. At a time and an age when youngsters ty...

Thinking of You: A Memoir of a Girl's Crush, a Teacher's Grooming, a Forbidden Love and the Journey to Reclaim My Voice

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Beth Runnoe (Author)Mary Beth Runnoe was only eleven when she met Mr. Davis-the charming and worshipful young choir teacher would hold her in thrall for decades.In prose as resolute as it is haunting, Runnoe explores what it felt like to be groomed by an older man as the focus of Davis' inappropriate, yet strongly appealing, attentions and favor. As she was drawn deeper and deeper into his web, her life turned upside down. She became the keeper of his secr...

Don't Call Me Back: Urban Trauma The Journey Continues

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Sr. Hart (Author)"Don't call me back" isn't rejection. It's protection. It's clear. It's love - For the boy Andre once was, and the man he became. In his new memoir, Don't Call Me Back, Andre picks up where his acclaimed debut, I Found a Way Out, left off - not to revisit the pain, but to honor the healing. With poetic urgency and hard-won wisdom, Andre reflects on what it means to set boundaries not from bitterness, but from love - for himself, for his p...

Race For What?: A White Man's Journey & Guide to Healing Racism from Within

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Report copyright infringementby Jd Mass (Author), Adeyemi Franklin (Editor), Khaya Osher (Editor)Race is currently a hot topic of discussion. Questions being considered are: Does racism still exist? What does equity look like? How do we achieve justice?Anti-black racism is real. It hasn't been corrected and it won't go away on its own. Aboriginal (Black) and Indigenous folks have carried the burden for far too long. It is time for white folks to take the next step and complete the mission.Rac...

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Report copyright infringementby Vera Gissing (Author)In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank and Clara's War comes a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of a life lived in fear and exiled from home-Pearls of Childhood is a true story of the Holocaust.Czechoslovakia, 1939. Vera Diamant is a secure and happy ten-year-old girl, loved by her family and safe in her little home town. She adores her parents and her sister, loves her horse, and takes tender care of cats she rescues and keeps i...

Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Imposter

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Report copyright infringementby Mark M. Hull (Author), Vera Moynes (Author) Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O'Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War II, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James's story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the mo...

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Report copyright infringementby John Gregory Dunne (Author), Stephanie Danler (Foreword by)"The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne's] grotesqueries aren't drug-induced, they're very real. His is the genuine Vegas." (Esquire)"In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada." So begins John Gregory Dunne's neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, c...

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

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Report copyright infringementby Bettina L. Love (Author)NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER WINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEFINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE "I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school beca...

The Plight of Southeastern Native American Indian Tribes: Fighting Systemic Eracism

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Report copyright infringementby John Glenn Creel Creel (Author)Erasing Indigenous Identity: Chief Creel's Fight for Recognition of Native American Tribes Amidst Systemic Bias in US Records & Documentation. In this captivating account, Chief John Glenn Creel, the head of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina, unveils the harsh reality of eracism-an insidious phenomenon where actions and decisions systematically erase an ethnic identity. Born in 1967 in Creeltown, a historic comm...

From Roadways to Hallways: One Officer's Mission to Reach Young Hearts

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Report copyright infringementby Lazaron II (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby John Glenn Creel (Author)Erasing Indigenous Identity: Chief Creel's Fight for Recognition of Native American Tribes Amidst Systemic Bias in US Records & Documentation.In this captivating account, Chief John Glenn Creel, the head of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina, unveils the harsh reality of eracism-an insidious phenomenon where actions and decisions systematically erase an ethnic identity. Born in 1967 in Creeltown, a historic community f...

Secret Paths Revealed: The Memoir of a Hmong Woman's Journey from Escaping a Secret War to Becoming a Physician

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Report copyright infringementby Ia Yang Kue (Author) Number of Pages: 254 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 08, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Weger (Author)What if your greatest challenges could become your greatest strengths? Well, guess what? They can!You have big dreams...Yet obstacles, fears, and even your own body might be holding you back. It's overwhelming, and it's far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it...But your fear is what's really holding you back... and you can overcome it!Living with narcolepsy and cataplexy, Michelle W...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Puryear (Author)Before I Forget outlines one person's journey from growing up rural to helping some of Latin America's top academic and political leaders make the world a better place-and the lessons he learned. It documents what made that possible: a warm but demanding family, a land-grant university, the Peace Corps, the University of Chicago and the Ford Foundation. It draws lessons about giving away millions, promoting democracy, falling in love, de...

Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca A. Alexander (Author), Sascha Alper (Author)The inspiring and moving memoir of a young woman who is slowly losing her sight and hearing yet continues to live life to its fullest potential. Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within. Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and she was told that she would likely be co...

Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Zemeckis (Author)Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the "highest paid stripteaser in America." Wallace was so fascinated by Lili that out of all the presidents and celebrities he interviewed over a long career, towards the end of his life, she was the one he remained fixated on. Her beauty had that kind of effect. Lili St. Cyr, the one time queen of burlesque, led an incredible life -six marriages, romances with Orson Well...

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Sr. Hart (Author) Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 08, 2025