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La Nuit
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Elie Wiesel |
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie… |
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The Other Wes Moore
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Wes Moore |
Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentenc… |
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Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feeling… |
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Death be not proud
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John Gunther |
A father's account of his teenage son's courageous fight for life during the fifteen months he was dying from a brain tumor. |
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Born a Crime
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Trevor Noah |
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that … |
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Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
"In the ten years since her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal has been quietly at work on this modest but mighty magnum … |
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Free Cyntoia
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Cyntoia Brown-Long |
Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she committed at the age of sixteen. Her case became national news when celebrities and activists made the hashtag #FreeCyntoia go viral in … |
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No Friend But the Mountains
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Behrouz Boochani |
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Lab… |
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All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small #3-4)
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James Herriot |
This beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, “All Creatures Great and Small”, picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire … |
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Poverty Safari
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Darren McGarvey |
223 pages ; 20 cm |
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Lessons from the Edge
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Marie Yovanovitch |
xxii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm |
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Saint Francis of Assisi
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis. Grounding the man behind the myth he states "however wild and romantic his gyrations mig… |
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