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"In this poignant and deeply intimate memoir, Sarah Ruhl chronicles her experience with Bell's palsy after giving birth to twins. At night, I dreamed that I could smile. The smile felt effortless in my dreams, the way it did in my childhood. Happily married and in the flush of hard-earned professional success, with her first play opening on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk pregnancy and given birth to twins when she discovers the...
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"When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know that his missives would soon spread well beyond his 1.2 million Twitter followers. Squeezing the magnitude of his final days with her into 140-character updates, Simon's ... meditations spread virally. Over the course of a few days, Simon chronicled his mother's death and reminisced about her life, revealing her humor and strength, and celebrating familial...
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A brilliant combination of literary analysis and historical detail, this masterfully written biography of the much misunderstood sixth president of the United States reveals the many sides of this forward-thinking man whose progressive vision helped shape the course of America.
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"Coming Up the Hard Way "Sometimes, in a tough neighborhood, where there is no way for a kid to prove himself except by playing games and fighting, you've got to establish a record for being able to look out for yourself before they will leave you alone. If they think you're an easy mark, they will all look to build up their own reputations by beating up on you. I learned always to get in the first punch." Althea Gibson, 1958 Four days after her historic...
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In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson...
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A Finalist for the Costa Biography Award
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • Commonweal magazine
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her "soul place," she said-a holiday home for her and her family, but also a refuge-until the...
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Es real. (Ver testimonios en Youtube, Facebook e Instagram). Supondría una película de ciencia ficción llamada Área 33. Este el proyecto civil más ambicioso que se conozca a nivel global respecto al contacto con otras inteligencias, llámese Aliens, Extraterrestres, OVNIS, entre otros. Fue concebido mediante diversos tipos de contacto con los Seres de las Estrellas.
El despertar de la humanidad ha sido frenado por una raza extraterrestre que...
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From co-founder Elyse Oleksak, discover how Bantam Bagels, the company featured on ABC's Shark Tank, the Today Show, and Oprah's Favorite Things, was built! A gut-wrenching, relatable, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to start, market and grow a business in today's America.
Elyse and her husband and business partner, Nick, seemingly have done it all. Together, they faced the notorious Sharks of ABC's Shark Tank, sold millions of bagels...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is known universally for the gentle charm of Le Petit Prince, but it is this book, Land of Men - known originally in English as Wind, Sand and Stars - which is his masterpiece. First published in 1939, it documents Saint-Exupéry's life as a pilot in the pioneering days of long-distance flying and in particular his experiences as a pilot transporting mail across countries, across continents.
These courageous pilots took...
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For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died
'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady
'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldstein
'Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity' - John Robins
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...
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I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this...
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Die wilde Karriere der ROLLING STONES - jetzt zum ersten Mal als Audiostory! Vor 50 Jahren standen sie zum ersten Mal auf der Bühne. Damit sind sie die dienstälteste Rock-Band der Welt. Die Audiostory erzählt, wie Mick, Keith und Co. zusammenfanden und ihr Manager sie zum bösen Gegenstück der braven Beatles machte. Wie sich die Band trotz Krisen und Drogen-Exzessen immer wieder aufraffte und neu erfand wird ebenso detailliert beschrieben wie...
15) Inspirational Story of Ethan A. Poetic: Chronicles of Adversities, Education, Sports, Relationships
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Ethan grew up in a single-parent household as a former 3 sport student-athleteDown the road, he experiences the death of his older brother to gun violence and with a future seeming very uncertain.A man enters his life to convince him pursuing higher education will improve his quality of life.He faces death in the eye from a near-fatal head-on collision car accident with an 18-wheeler.The survival rate is 99% death vs 1% of life.The long road ahead...
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Two months of non-stop rowing with only two hours sleep, 24 hours a day, accompanied by blisters, salt-rash, sharks, storms, sunburn, and chafing in areas you don't want to be chafed. This race is one of the toughest challenges a human body can endure. But bad sleep patterns are old news to these four who all have young children and stressful jobs. The decision to enter the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge may have been made over a few glasses of...
18) A Bar in Toledo
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When Duane Abbajay took over his brother's bankrupt nightclub in Toledo, Ohio in 1962, he promised his wife it would be a quick turnaround to bail his brother out and clear the family name. Instead, he became the face of a bar that transformed the city's entertainment scene and inspired a Grammy-winning country song-all under the thumb of a trigger-happy mafia boss.
Informed by interviews with crime historians, employees, and patrons and corroborated...
19) Marilyn Monroe
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Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center...
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A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a 'catfish' scenario - when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems. 25-year-old Megan Henley put her five-year-old daughter to bed one evening and switched on her laptop. A Facebook 'friend request' seemed to be genuine. There were a few common friends and very similar interests, so Megan accepted. With that one simple act, she changed her life forever. In her words: 'looking back on it, it was...
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