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At age thirty, Maya Golden was living a charmed life. She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Privately, she was battling addiction, perfectionism, dissociation disorders, and rage due to sexual abuse endured at the hands of her cousin and many other predators.But Maya wants to change. So, on a family road trip back to her Texas hometown, she is ready to put an end to the secrets that threaten her marriage and her career....
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On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions:
"Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?"
Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did.
Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings...
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In 2009 Cristina Nehring's brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. An important new voice had appeared in American letters. Just as suddenly, Nehring seemed to disappear-only to reemerge like a bolt from the blue. "Now unexpectedly, writes California poet laureate Dana Gioia, "from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke, that explains her years of silence....
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Excerpt: "I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering,...
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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
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DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST LOVE?
Do you remember your first heart break? This Memoir book is about a young woman who fell in love at the age of fifteen. She never expected to go through all of the pain, hurt and abuse that she encountered over the years. She had to grow up at an early age and thought that everything she went through in her seventeen year relationship was normal and ok. She had to learn the hard way and she had to make many...
7) Driven
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Steph (Hammerman) Roach is an accomplished fitness personality and owner of Staying Driven, LLC . Over the past decade she has used her influence and life experience to help shift societal perceptions of what it means to have a physical disability and be included in the fitness industry. Becoming the world's first Level 2 CrossFit trainer living with Cerebral Palsy, and the first adaptive athlete to be signed by Nike Training, Steph is used to blazing...
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In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for "violating public modesty," after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison.
Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy,...
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" Es war kein Gefühl, es war eher eine Wucht, die mich aus dem Leben schleuderte. An diesem Samstagabend im April 2016. Als ich von der Arbeit nach Hause kam und Grit fand. Ihr Herz hatte aufgehört zu schlagen."Es war der dramatischste Tag im Leben von Peter Schneider. Die Trauer ließ ihn die Erinnerungen bündeln, seine schlimmsten Stunden, Tage, Wochen, Jahre.Viele Momente über den Tod, den Abschied, aber auch über die Liebe. Und über die...
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Lying Down with Dogs is a series of interrelated essays about the years Caradine spent starting and running Other Mothers Animal Rescue. As in any worthwhile endeavor, life has a way of intervening and she includes some of those non-animal adventures in her tale as it is all a part of the larger Other Mothers saga. From rescuing kittens under a house to finding a farm sanctuary that would take in a pig, from birthing puppies to cats in the freezer,...
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Leslie Sandberg, in her first book, brings together memories about her parents, and how they touched her life and many others. She describes the sacrifices made throughout their lives, and, how they were still able to find joy in living. The book is short but very contemplative. It offers the reader an authentic view of how important certain moments can be in someone's life, even if barely noticed by others. She also details the enormity of loss....
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The cover of this autobiography shows I.R. Dujon at the time of publication mothering her younger, 6-year-old self.
I Will Protect Her details the adolescent years in which Ingrid was subject to tragic child abuse, while the people in charge of her welfare and safety neglected their most basic responsibilities at every point possible. This led to a prolonged period of suffering for her and for so many others. After years of fighting, a full criminal...
13) Crystal Clear
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Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, offers here the final volume of her "mini-memoirs," daily musings taken from the popular Facebook author page she posted on from 2012 through 2020. Her unique take on life continues this four-volume legacy: Clear as Mud (parts 1 & 2), Clearly Me, and now the concluding book, Crystal Clear. If you're the kind of person who would...
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Dive deep into a saga that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, spanning a century from the 1850s to 1950s. This tale, inspired by true events, unravels the intricate tapestry of a family I was adopted into – a lineage rife with hedonism, deceit, and dark desires.
Each character in this sprawling family epic is a study in contrasts: driven by their insatiable passions, they navigate a world laden with amorality, neuroses, and intense eroticism....
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El evento más importante de la vida: el nacimiento de un hijo. Nacieron en casa relata, desde la mirada sensible de un padre, el proceso del embarazo y del parto natural en casa durante los meses más crudos de la cuarentena y la parte final de la pandemia de covid-19.
La obra desarrolla los procesos particulares que vivió al acompañar a su pareja en la decisión de evitar los hospitales para la llegada de sus próximos hijos. Además, reflexiona...
16) Out of Respect
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"Out of Respect" by Denise De Stefano will take you on a dramatic odyssey where you will experience the true highs and lows of the human condition. It is told by the voice of a child who became a savvy woman growing up in South Philly with all its colorful culture. The book teaches us a new perspective on the word, "respect." De Stefano's recovery, recollections, and authentic storytelling are a gift to us all. Through her story, written in first...
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In her hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Kathryn Bertine tells the strange-but-true story of what life is really like behind the glitz and glamour of professional figure skating. Bertine's childhood dream came true when she earned a place in a touring ice show. But as she traveled through the back roads of Chile and Argentina in a rickety bus with the international cast of Hollywood on Ice, she wondered if this was exactly the dream she had in mind....
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Calin Wheeler was an ordinary kind of guy living an ordinary life until he ventured high up into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. It was there that he was woken up by a Voice and a light that connected him to God.
What he thought he knew about himself, and life was so far removed from the reality of what it is. And that the change that took place was so profound that it when he came down the mountains noy only did he leave the old version of himself...
19) Little Molly
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This is a true story of Molly, who by the age of four had suffered so many beatings and experienced so much sexual abuse that she suffered from an enormous fear of human contact. In a period of six years among a family of twelve only her abusers themselves were aware of her constant pain and suffering. Her other siblings, her father and her mother knew nothing until it was too late, and even then they found it difficult to accept that it happened...
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What does it take to get from the tough streets of London to the glitz and glamour of the Playboy Mansion?
Author Zoë Gregory takes readers on a journey through the rave scene of her rebellious youth to the stark reality of young motherhood and the economic pressures that drove her to reimagine her future. With hard work, strategic thinking, and a touch of manifestation, Zoë set her sights on Hollywood and never looked back.
Now, Zoë reflects...
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