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[2024]
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English
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"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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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence
One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024
One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year
“Legacy is both a compelling...
“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence
One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024
One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year
“Legacy is both a compelling...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Guedea narra la historia de Abel Corona en dos líneas alternadas de tiempo. Una cuenta las vivencias del pasado de Abel, cómo se escapó de su casa por perseguir a su exnovia y todo lo que vivió en sus viajes por diferentes pueblos de México. La otra cuenta su vida en el presente, su trabajo en la Procuraduría de Justicia de Colima y las peleas que él y sus hermanos tienen con las familias de los ranchos enemigos. Además se intercalan remembranzas...
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"Lucy was not a proper little girl. She was sassy. She was bold. She was funny. She was a rule-breaking, chance-taking, comedy pioneer. Can't act? Can't sing? Can't dance? Lucy proves them all wrong - and then has the last laugh when she finally lets her inner funny girl shine. In 1951, the hit show I Love Lucy took television by storm, and has made millions laugh ever since. Lucy! is the true story of how Lucille Ball overcame the odds to become...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by Vulture, LitHub, The Guardian, and Cosmopolitan
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author's struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in...
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author's struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in...
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"Once upon a time there lived a girl who swept floors and washed dishes, and was little more than a servant to her family. Until, one day, an invitation arrived. It was an invitation to a new country and a new beginning--a place where Caroline's dreams, her fascination with the night sky, and her extraordinary talent would open up a world of beauty and renown, and make her the belle of the scientific ball. From humble beginnings and in spite of many...
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Instant New York Times Bestseller
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
"Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world...Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking,...
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
"Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world...Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking,...
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Der Winter 2011 ist ungewöhnlich hart in England. Im Dezember gibt es heftige Blizzards, selbst in London liegt Schnee und es ist bitter kalt- schlechte Voraussetzungen für einen Straßenmusiker! Schon bald wird das Geld knapp. Während die Londoner hektisch und spürbar in Feierstimmung durch die vorweihnachtlich erleuchtete Innenstadt hasten, ringt James um seine Einkünfte, um wenigstens Strom und Gas zu bezahlen. Ganz zu schweigen von Weihnachten,...
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Deutsch
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Als James Bowen den verwahrlosten Kater vor seiner Wohnungstür fand, hätte man kaum sagen können, wem von beiden es schlechter ging. James schlug sich als Straßenmusiker durch, er hatte eine harte Zeit auf der Straße hinter sich. Aber dem abgemagerten, jämmerlich maunzenden Kater konnte er einfach nicht widerstehen, er nahm ihn auf, pflegte ihn gesund und ließ ihn wieder laufen. Doch Bob war anders als andere Katzen. Er liebte seinen neuen...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound-and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn't catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a prospective college student who couldn't pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay's condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast. Soundtrack of Silence was his determined...
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Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Alyssa Graybeal is a queer writer and cartoonist whose work is a witty take on daily life with chronic illness, the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World is her first book and won the 2020 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award. She earned a BA from McGill University and an MLIS from Dalhousie University, and she works in library nonprofits from her home in Astoria, Oregon....
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Gallery Books /13A
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time-on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, with Elevate and Dominate, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required to help us "elevate and dominate" in all aspects of our lives."--
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In jeder Frau steckt eine Stehaufqueen!
Jeder erlebt einmal Rückschläge, Krisen oder doofe Tage. Doch woran liegt es, dass die einen daran zerbrechen und die anderen scheinbar locker damit fertig werden? Und was ist eigentlich ein Schicksalsschlag, was eine Lappalie - und wer bestimmt das? Nicole Staudinger weiß, wovon sie spricht: Mit Anfang Dreißig erhält die Mutter zweier kleiner Kinder die niederschmetternde Diagnose Brustkrebs. Doch anstatt...
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Rumi gilt als der bedeutendste Lyriker Persiens. Die vorliegende Auswahl aus seiner Gedichtssammlung "Der Diwan" zeugt von Rumis poetischer Meisterschaft: Ungekünstelt, frisch und spontan spricht er von Sehnsucht, Verzweiflung und Hoffnung und fasst die höchsten Wahrheiten wie die alltäglichsten Dinge in Verse von unübertroffener Schönheit. Mit einer ausführlichen Einleitung.
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Trish spends her time hustling and cheating to score. Heroin, Dilaudids, whatever she can get.
Precisely plotting the slippery slope of a heroin addict's existence, The Hummingbird Kiss paints a bleak picture but still manages to offer a ray of hope. The '70s are young, and 18-year-old Trish is a newlywed. When a Florida judge sentences her junkie husband to ten years for stealing stereos, she immediately seeks out a fix, and before she knows it she's...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Danny Trejo & Donal Logue's Trejo
In Trejo (2021), actor Danny Trejo along with his collaborator and friend Donal Logue puts his hectic and action-filled life on display. Trejo's memoir covers a journey that started with a crime and drug ridden young adulthood and ended with an elderhood that's filled with fame, wealth, faith, and sobriety. Trejo's success story, as an American born with Mexican roots, can serve...
20) Intermezzo
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For all its brevity, Intermezzo is a beautiful and deeply profound piece, rightfully considered Kotsubinsky's best work. It speaks of an artist's ongoing struggle to create in the midst of life and all its good, bad, and ugly aspects. It also acknowledges the need to escape and reset - but emphasizes this as a temporary measure only.
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