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List created by Sherry C. (Sherry) - , on Jul 23, 2024
List Votes: 1 Books: 31 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyar...
Two months before he died of cancer, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side, intending to reveal a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. But even as he lay dying, the truth was too difficult for him to share, and it...  more

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Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who...
With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her...  more

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Stolen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Gilpin
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All But Normal: Life on Victory Road by Shawn Thornton
Growing up, Shawn Thornton's life was anything but normal, but then, so was his mother. After waking from a coma following a car crash, Beverly Thornton's once sweet and gentle disposition had been replaced by violent mood swings, profanity laced tirades, and uncontrollable fits of rage....  more

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No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir by Lisa Nikolidakis
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A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice. ...
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The Friday Night Knitting Club (Knitting Club, Bk 1) by Kate Jacobs
A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together - even when we least expect it. Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was...  more

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The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin
In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade later and embark upon a life-changing adventure together. Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant...  more

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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland,...  more

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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney
Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics...  more

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The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie by Freida McFadden
My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef...  more

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The Murders at White House Farm: The shocking true story of Jeremy Bamber and the kil...
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Facing the Wind : A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation by Julie Salamon
Robert and Mary Rowe’s second child, Christopher, was born with severe neurological and visual impairments. For many years, the Rowes’ courageous response to adversity set an example for other parents of children with birth defects. Then the pressures on Bob Rowe—personal and...  more

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A House with No Roof: After My Father's Assassination, A Memoir by Rebecca Wilson
In 1966, Rebecca Wilson?s father, a Union Leader and civil rights activist, was assassinated on the street in San Francisco. Rebecca—known throughout as “Becky?—was three years old. A House with No Roof is Wilson?s gripping memoir of how the murder of her father propelled her family into a...  more

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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by ...
Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren’t paid for their labor–people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies, award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the...  more

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Out of the Corner: A Memoir by Jennifer Grey
Throughout this intimate narrative, Grey richly evokes places and times that were defining for a generation—from her preteen days in 1970s Malibu and wild child nights in New York’s club scene, to her roles in quintessential movies of the 1980s, including The Cotton Club, Red...  more

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Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was A Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley ...
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While the City Sleeps (The Women of Midtown) by Elizabeth Camden
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Blood Frenzy by Robert Scott
Frankie Cochran knew her boyfriend, David Gerard, was possessive, controlling, and prone to violent rages. When she tried to break up with him, Gerard threatened her with a hammer. One week later, he used it to club her in the head. Again. And again. Then he stabbed her in the throat - and left...  more

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And Then She Killed Him by Robert Scott
Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to bury her violent past -- but this seductive, charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy" she was looking for in Alan Helmick, her new marriage seemed happy. Then, two years later, Alan met a...  more

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Promise by Minrose Gwin
A few minutes after 9 p.m. on Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a massive funnel cloud flashing a giant fireball and roaring like a runaway train careened into the thriving cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing more than 200 people, not counting an unknown number of black citizens,...  more

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Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The latest novel from the sensational Jodi Picoult: Can murder ever be justice? Or mercy? Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet old man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that...  more

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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her...  more

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye is the story of a black girl who prays -- with unforeseen consequences -- for her eyes to turn blue so she will be accepted.

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Dark Knights 3: The Dark Humor of Police Officers by Robert L. Bryan
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A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton Series) by Paige Dearth
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Heels to Hiking Boots: Exploring the World to Find the Way Home by Sue Muller Hacking
Home is where the spark is. Born in rural Pennsylvania to an elegant, but emotionally-distant mother, and a free-spirited, adventurous father, Sue Muller grows up in a home where tears are forbidden. As an exchange student in Chile, she is shocked by her host mother’s range of anger,...  more

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The Lambs: My Father, a Farm, and the Gift of a Flock of Sheep by Carole George
?An enchanting book?please read.? ?Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE; Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceIn this touching memoir about the relationship between father, daughter, and animals, Carole explores life after adopting thirteen pet Karakul lambs. Throughout her years with...  more

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