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On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane���s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenant���s name...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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-- AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author. -- All the Birds in the Sky The world is on fire. So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Having the Time of My Life is a rich account of Peter Chapel's life, depicting the people, places, and events that he wishes to remember and acknowledge. This memoir shows how everything and everyone around him genuinely enriched his life and brings back poignantly remembered fragments of his history.
Chapel comes from a big family-thirteen children, only eleven of whom grew to adulthood. Here he shares the quality of the family bonding he and his...
105) Let Love Rule
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow."
Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.
"My life is all about opposites," he writes. "Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it....
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"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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-- Killing Readers and listeners around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times Not a partisan pro-Trump or anti-Trump book, this is an up-to-the-minute, intimate view of the man and his sphere of influence—of “how Donald Trump’s view of America was formed, and how it has changed since becoming the most powerful person in the world”— from a writer who has known the president for thirty years. This is an unprecedented,...
108) Working
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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-- The Power Broker Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses,...
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Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Each day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker - who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman in the country, as well as one of the wealthiest black Americans, to Barack Obama - the country's first African-American president.This is a completely unique look at the importance and influence...
110) I am Temple Grandin
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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-- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. Included in each book are: -- • Childhood moments• Facts• A virtue this person embodies: You’ll want to collect each entry in this dynamic, informative series!
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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New York Times Bestseller
What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men and women.
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present,...
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2022.
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"On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy. The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities...
114) Tiger Woods
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Based on years of reporting and interviews with more than 250 people from every corner of Tiger Woodss life-many of whom have never spoken about him on the record before-a sweeping, revelatory, and defining biography of an American icon.In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. Married to a Swedish beauty and the father of...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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-- Stassi hopes her story will help others see the light at the end of the tunnel in their own lives and make them laugh along the way. She writes about the importance of having a good cry (at work, in the shower, in your closet), ways to navigate social media responsibly (sometimes that means logging the eff off when crowds are chanting, “OFF WITH HER HEAD”), how to practice self-care when wine is not an option, and how not So roll up your...
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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-- Girl Gurl Grrrl both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today.
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Random House UK
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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-- Cast:Narrator (Older Maya)...Adjoa Andoh Maya...Indie Gjedsal/Pippa Bennett-Warner Bailey...Roshawn Hewitt Momma...Cecilia Noble Uncle Willie/Freeman/Daddy...Richard Pepple Steward/Lawyer...John Lightbody Girl...Francesca Elise Mother...Ellen Thomas Bertha Flowers...Nikki Amuka-Bird Spanish voices... Maider Jáuregui, Rocío Mesonero, Celia Romo, Julio Villa-García, Hugo Sánchez and Francisco Oda-Ángel @ Instituto Cervantes,Manchester Receptionist...Lauren...
119) Home sweet murder
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Murder is forever volume 2
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Hachette Audio
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English
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Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is ForeverMurder on the Run. The middle-aged housekeeper found dead with a knife in her throat was bad. But the little boy was worse. After a bloody double homicide that puts Omaha, Nebraska, on the map, Detective Derek Mois promises the boy's parents he will catch the killer, no matter how long or far he runs . . .
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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-- Who Is Bruce Springsteen? Who Is Stevie Wonder? By Jim Gigliotti; read by Dominic Hoffman. Listen to find out more about a talented boy who signed to Motown Records when he was just eleven years old; a musician, singer, and songwriter who has always defended civil and human rights; and one of the greatest musical superstars of our time.