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How do you let go of a hand you've held your whole life? When Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother's life – and ultimately – death. From a child's first breath to a mother's last, 14 Days shows how closing that circle can be a celebration of this unbreakable bond.
42) Virtual Insanity
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She felt under surveillance by intelligence agencies. She felt her home was bugged. She felt they had her trapped in the astral field. She felt she was trapped in the astral field by ASIS having astral sex with her. She wanted justice. Was she going mad? Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2012 at the age of 36, and then with schizoaffective disorder in 2017, Lara's memoir describes the journey of her life and her descent into mental illness along with...
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Pressure is Malik Wade's compelling, brutally honest description of his descent into the underworld, his years as a FBI fugitive, his incarceration, and his ultimate redemption. Wade began dealing drugs in San Francisco's infamous Sunnydale housing project at age 15. By 19, his network reached from the Bay Area to Washington, DC. By 22, he had made the FBI's wanted list. By 29, he was serving a 14-year stretch in federal prison. In prison, Wade began...
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If you have a father, mother, sister, brother, grandmother, auntie or any close relative or friend incarcerated in any form of secure lockdown, one of your first thoughts is probably, "when will I get to see them again free?" Now just imagine, if your loved one physically ends up imprisoned (or have even escaped the system) but they have been locked up spiritually their entire life? In this book, I will share my powerful testimony that will demonstrate...
45) Reconstructed
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Have you ever seen your life flash before your eyes? Follow one man's journey of positivity and resilience as he reconstructs his life after a near-fatal accident!
Atta Ahmad was determined to make his dreams come true. So unwavering, in fact, that he was willing to forgo sleep just to reach his goals.
Eventually, it caught up to him on September 5, 2015.
That fateful day, an exhilarating road trip from Boston to Michigan turned into a fight for...
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In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of Neiman's, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy, and because she'd driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own insanity.
In a memoir studded with delicious lines and...
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In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers-in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields-a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barcelona, where she briefly moonlighted as a dubber of Italian pornography into...
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Lilly was born into a loving family. Strong in faith, she played in the fields, woods, and on the river in the rural Midwest. It was a life people dream of, but not for Lilly. Her past and present world was split in two... one of fear and one of love. After giving birth to a son, those worlds could no longer remain parallel. She found herself with one foot weighted down in the hidden underworld of terror. The other stuck on a merry-go-round of secrets....
49) Exit Stage Left
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The author takes you from the marvelous memories of her early childhood to the overwhelming issues that she faced in adulthood. From the age of 11-62, for 51 years, she fought waves of suicidal thinking. Surgery in 2007 abruptly ended this thinking.
While 6 months pregnant with her first child, she was hospitalized for pain that kept her awake for 7 consecutive days and nights. Was it fair, or just, that the diagnosis of bipolar disorder followed?...
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As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour's began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her focus narrowed to an unblemished patch of skin calling out for attention and the fierce, blooming release of pleasure-pain as the burning tip was applied to the skin. Her body was a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride...
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How am I supposed to carry on like normal when half of my soul has been taken from me? Losing my wife of 53 years changed who I am, and nothing will ever be the same again. I have never experienced such bitterness, heartache, and loneliness before. I struggle to find purpose and hope in the future. I've always been a happy guy, but now I'm facing the biggest battle of my life to be that person again. Although sometimes tempted, I can't give up. I'll...
52) Swinging Bridge
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VinI want to encompass all the knowledge I can in my brief span.
Toby What's span, Vin? Judy It's a bridge.
Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wylar DirectorLife reminds me of a swinging bridge. We begin on firm ground, and as our life progresses, we experience the sometimes thrilling, sometimes terrifying and sometimes tranquil passage to the other side — our future.
As we traverse the fragile path that is our own, personal swinging bridge, we find that...
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Life has a way of interrupting our plans. Most of us get knocked off our chosen paths at some point. It's what we do in such moments that determine our fate. In 1997, Jon Chandonnet - twenty-seven, a semester away from completing his Master's Degree at MIT, with a job offer from promising startup Sapient - received the diagnosis that would change his life: Multiple-Sclerosis. MS knocked Jon down; it almost knocked him out - but it didn't. It motivated...
54) Fostering and Us
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It covers their years of fostering, all the ups and downs, and how fostering affected their daily lives, and the amount of enjoyment and happy memories they have. It is also written to acknowledge the amount of support they received from their family, friends, and neighbors.
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Diario de un confinamiento es una obra poliédrica. Lo que empieza como diario abierto, un diario que se pretende bálsamo para el autor y medicina para el alma de aquellos contactos a los que cada noche, religiosamente, envía sus páginas, se va convirtiendo poco a poco en un cajón de sastre de emociones y vivencias. En palabras del autor, el diario le permite narrar sus historias cerca de los políticos, anécdotas del mundo educativo, los procesos...
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A frank, intelligent, and deeply moving debut memoir from n+1 cofounder Marco Roth
With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician-from the time he could get his toddler tongue to a pronounce a word like "De-oxy ribonucleic acid," or recite a French poem-Marco Roth was able to share his parents' New York, a world centered around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and dinner discussions...
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This provocative, poignant memoir of a daughter whose mother left her behind by choice begs the question: Are we destined to make the same mistakes as our parents? One summer, Melissa Cistaro's mother drove off without explanation Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, always tormented by the thought: Why did their mother abandon them? Thirty-five years later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia,...
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In this Tracy-Hepburn romance a sophisticated New York intellectual is charmed by a down-to-earth newspaperman. Frankie's Place is the tale of a summer cottage and the story that unfolds under its roof. Jim Sterba is the down-to-earth newspaperman who charms the New York sophisticate, Frances FitzGerald, after several visits to her writer's retreat on the coast in Maine. Frankie's place is a secluded little house out of harm's way and the clamor of...
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Born and raised in New York to a Swiss father and Polish mother, Ed Nef seemed destined for an international life. After serving in Germany with the US Army, Ed began his career with the Foreign Service in Dakar, Senegal, in 1960. An onward, assginment in Guatemala found Ed building relationships with communist revolutionaries.
A dreary tour at a stuffy embassy in Colombia followed, broken up by more exciting assignments to the Peace Corps. In 1976,...
60) Kidnapped
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In 1990, Alice Weil was kidnapped in Colombia and held captive in a dark, windowless cell for 269 days.
She tells the story of how she found the resources hidden deep inside her to survive captivity without taking her own life, losing her sanity or developing Stockholm syndrome. Instead, she was able to remain calm and courageous, always being polite and making conversation to her captors and using her time in ways that she would later be able to...
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