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  • Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours
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    Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours

    When Aisha Sarwari moved to America as a young woman, she set out to create her own identity and story. Born in Uganda, she had never lived in South Asia, yet struggled to reconcile the cultural expectation to be a 'good Muslim girl' with her desire for...
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  • Reading the Water
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    Reading the Water

    'A father shares the joys of fly-fishing with his daughters. In this eloquent memoir...[Mark] Hume vividly conveys the sensory details of their adventures and the stunning surroundings...A heartfelt, beautifully written celebration of the...
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    Don't Let Them Bury My Story
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    Don't Let Them Bury My Story

    "Every day, I have lived through the massacre. While our country may forget this history, I cannot." Viola Ford FletcherViola Ford Fletcher's memoirDon't Let Them Bury My Storyvividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the...
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    The Broken Boy
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    The Broken Boy

    In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The...
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  • Stories at the Edge of Time
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    Stories at the Edge of Time

    A family on the last starship finds that stories themselves may very well save a dying world. A man finds a new lease on life in an ancient dingus. A phone that can be used to call a few minutes into the future leads to unexpected turmoil. An anthroid on...
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  • Homer's Odyssey
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    Homer's Odyssey

    Homer Hudelson spent 30 years in the San Francisco Police Department and experienced some extraordinary events firsthand, such as the Dan White Riots, the SF State Civil Rights Demonstrations, and the search for the Zodiac killer. In addition to his role...
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  • Real Life on the Streets
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    Real Life on the Streets

    This book consists of a series of anecdotal experiences of a police officer in a small, but growing, police department in the suburban Denver area. Although set in the 1960's and 70's, it is easily translatable to today's law enforcement experience. It's...
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  • 30 Days to Live
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    30 Days to Live

    A healthy 36-year-old woman with everything going for her experiences severe headaches and numbness to the left side of her body and dismisses it as a pinched nerve in her back, ignoring the severity of a baseball-sized brain tumor occupying the core of...
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    My Sister Reta
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    My Sister Reta

    My Sister Reta: A Story of Art and Mental Illness is a non-fiction book, crossing the genres of family biography, mental health, and self-help. It is a story of an artist living with debilitating mental illness, and a brother's journey to understand and...
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  • The Elevator Mechanic
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    The Elevator Mechanic

    I describe how I got into the industry and how it changed my life. Also, all of the people that became great lifelong friends, and some of the funny stuff that we did while safely working on some of the most technically difficult situations which could...
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  • Combat Missions
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    Combat Missions

    In his memoir, "Combat Missions: Flying the B-24 Liberator Bomber Out of Manduria, Italy, 450th Bomb Group, 720th Squadron, WWII.," Burl Harmon, 78 years later at the age of 97, describes the impact of WWII on him, a 19-year-old from Boone, Iowa. After...
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    George Soros
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    George Soros

    A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success,...
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    Between Two Wars: A True Crime Collection
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    Between Two Wars: A True Crime Collection

    Discover the most fascinating crimes committed between two of the greatest wars ever fought, from America's first train robbery by the Reno brothers in 1866, to alleged killings at the H. H. Holmes Murder Castle in 1893, to the Rumrich Nazi spy case in...
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    Self-Portrait
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    Self-Portrait

    A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archiveJack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work...
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    Openings & Outings
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    Openings & Outings

    Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess's widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the...
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  • By the Time You Read This
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    By the Time You Read This

    By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter's life. The text read,...
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  • Ride Free
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    Ride Free

    Willie G. Davidson likes to say that he was born with gasoline in his veins and a crayon in each hand. A designer at heart, Davidson combined his passions for art and motorcycles to extend a multi-generational unbroken thread from Harley-Davidson...
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  • On Holy Ground
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    On Holy Ground

    The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) was created in 1989 by Larry Leon Hamlin, founder of North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. NC Black Rep hosts this festival every two years. Hamlin's goal in...
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  • Floppy
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    Floppy

    One of the first books to explore the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient's perspective; a playful story of falling down, getting back up again, and realising you should have gone to the hospital sooner.When...
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  • Heart First into this Ruin
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    Heart First into this Ruin

    "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post"Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."-New York TimesThe first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original...
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  • Hunger of Memory
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    Hunger of Memory

    The 40th anniversary edition of an American classic: a "minority student" pays the cost of social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation-from his past, his parents, his culture. Exquisitely written, poignant and powerful, unsettling...
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  • Ghost of the Hardy Boys
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    Ghost of the Hardy Boys

    "Ghost of the Hardy Boys is an elegant book, full of charm and pathos and whimsy. The writing is restrained, the characterizations deep and rich, the humor nuanced." -Washington PostAs millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy...
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  • One True Sentence
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    One True Sentence

    A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula...
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  • The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
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    The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself

    Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppressionThe police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional...
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  • Not the Camilla We Knew
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    Not the Camilla We Knew

    The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United StatesBehind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for...
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    Far More Terrible for Women

    De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants." I thinks 'bout...
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  • Columba
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    Columba

    St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A native of Donegal and a nobleman of royal ancestry, his outstanding religious career spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. On the Scottish island of Iona he...
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    Thai Stories for Language Learners
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    Thai Stories for Language Learners

    The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages!Thai Stories for Language Learners introduces 28 entertaining Thai stories with bilingual Thai and English versions...
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    The Man Who Organized Nature
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    The Man Who Organized Nature

    A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work.Carl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants...
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    Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands...
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    Talaat Pasha
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    Talaat Pasha

    The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of...
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  • New Australian Fiction 2023
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    New Australian Fiction 2023

    A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings.An opera singer loses her voice. Sex releases memories. A lake monster captures a town's attention. Two young men take their vapes and big ambitions and go On The Road.New Australian...
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  • Stand Up and Fight
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    Stand Up and Fight

    'A modern classic...Absolutely riveting and frequently moving.' - The Telegraph'Among the best books ever written on Irish sport.' - Sunday Tribune'Brilliant...Stand Up and Fight is the definitive account. It...
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    Mountain Guru
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    Mountain Guru

    Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and...
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    Nietzsche For Beginners
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    Nietzsche For Beginners

    Not only does Nietzsche For Beginners delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also give a clear picture of the puzzling time in which he lived. We meet the luminaries of the day - Richard Wagner, Bismarck, Freud,...
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  • Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety
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    Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety

    Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can't always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its...
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    Nonviolent Soldier of Islam

    The story of the great Muslim peacemaker Badshah Khan, who joined Mahatma Gandhi in nonviolent resistance to British rule in India. Khn Abdul Ghaffr Khn (Badshah Khan or Bacha Khan) came from a Pathan society that was steeped in a tradition of blood...
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    Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae

    The all encompassing bio of Bob Marley written by Kim Gottlieb Walker, who photographed Bob for High Times. During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is...
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    Murder by Mail
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    Murder by Mail

    The explosive history of weaponised mail over hundreds of years.This book unfolds the gripping history of weaponised mail, offering the first-ever comprehensive exploration of this sinister phenomenon. Spanning two centuries, Murder by Mail unveils the...
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  • Boy Soldier
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    Boy Soldier

    Abducted and forced to fight with the Lord's Resistance Army at the age of twelve, Norman Okello describes a journey into inhumanity and back to forgiveness and loveUganda's civil war with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has raged since the 1980s,...
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  • From Hamas to America
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    From Hamas to America

    From Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan, as he breaks away from his culture's practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to finally fleeing to America and becoming a US citizen, and...
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  • take less. do more.
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    take less. do more.

    In this personal journey, ultra-light backpacker and sought-after speaker Glen Van Peski shares the life lessons he has learned through years of lightening his pack and helping others.Adventures provide the richness and texture to a life well lived. So...
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    Sports Illustrated Tom Brady
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    Sports Illustrated Tom Brady

    Famouslyselected as the 199th pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft, Tom Brady's career trajectory is nothing short of legendary.By the time he hung up his cleats in 2023, Brady held nearly every major quarterback record, including career...
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  • Yadi
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    Yadi

    Celebrate Yadier Molina's incredible career with this vibrant retrospective.A 10-time All-Star with nine Gold Gloves and two World Series rings, Yadier Molina has established his position as one of the greatest Major League Baseball players of his...
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    My Train to Freedom
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    My Train to Freedom

    The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning...
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    Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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    Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer

    When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he settled. He never did. In 1955, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to...
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    Clyde the Glide
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    Clyde the Glide

    Through his fifteen-year career as an NBA player, Clyde Drexler played with elegance and flair, leadership and poise, integrity and an ability to come through in the clutch. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and helped the Houston...
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