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Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old : thoughts on aging as a woman
by Brooke Shields
The former child star reflects on aging with confidence and empowerment, challenging societal stereotypes about women growing older, while sharing personal experiences and insights to encourage women to reclaim their power and redefine the narrative around aging. 350,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Hope : the autobiography
by Francis
"Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis's Italian roots and his ancestors' courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day"
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Memorial days : a memoir
by Geraldine Brooks
Having no time to grieve when her husband suddenly died, the author after three years flew to a remote Australian island and stayed in a shack on a pristine coast, going days without seeing another person, and pondered the ways cultures grieve and what rituals might help her rebuild her life.
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Source code : my beginnings
by Bill Gates
The software giant explores his personal journey, recounting his early influences, friendships, family and first steps in computing that paved the way for his revolutionary career and later philanthropic focus, offering an intimate look at the experiences that shaped him
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Whiskey tender : a memoir
by Deborah Jackson Taffa
"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"
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Drive Down Memory Lane : The Named State And Federal Highways Of Michigan by Leroy Barnett
Every day people driving in and around Detroit pass over ribbons of concrete named Chrysler, Couzens, Fisher, Ford and Reuther. Motorists cruising the thoroughfares of Flint follow trunk lines designated Buick, Chevrolet, Dort and UAW. Grand Rapids drivers travel along primary slabs of pavement called Ford, Wilson and Fulton. Most of us vaguely know who these individuals and entities are, but how did these roads come to bear their names? Clearly, some people and organizations were once deemed highly worthy of recognition, as evidenced by their titles on the motoring landscape. But often the bases for these tributes have not been handed down to the current era, leaving many elements of Michigan's highway heritage lost in the fog of passing years. The time has come to identify and tell the stories behind these important roads of remembrance.
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World travel : an irreverent guide
by Anthony Bourdain
A guide to some of the world's most interesting places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain. Illustrations.
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Travels in Siberia
by Ian Frazier
The author of Great Plains examines the unforgivable region of Siberia, including its geography, resources, native peoples and history, in a book full of Mongols, fur seekers, tea caravans, American prospectors, prisoners and exiles of every kind and so much more.
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Junie : a novel
by Erin Crosby Eckstine
Good Morning America Book Club -- Sixteen-year-old slave Junie tends to master's daughter Violet at Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, but when Violet's potential marriage leads Junie to commit a desperate act that rouses sister Minnie's spirit, she enlists coachman Caleb's help as horrifying secrets are revealed.
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The case of the missing maid : a novel
by Rob Osler
In 1898 Chicago, Harriet Morrow, a determined young woman hired as the first female detective at the prestigious Prescott Agency, must solve the odd disappearance of a maid from a lavish mansion, all while navigating skeptical colleagues and uncovering dangerous secrets hidden within the city's Polish community.
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Last twilight in Paris
by Pam Jenoff
In London, 1953, a secondhand shop necklace bears the name Lévitan, a Paris department store-turned-Nazi prison camp, leading Louise and former romantic partner Ian to investigate her friend Franny's war death and the fate of Helaine, a woman imprisoned at Lévitan when the Germans invaded France.
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The English problem : a novel
by Beena Kamlani
Shiv Advani, an 18-year-old chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to study British law in 1930s London, arrives determined to fight colonialism but soon finds himself torn between his duty to India's independence movement and his growing desire to belong within British society.
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