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Sky Burial: An Eyewitness Account of China's Brutal Crackdown in Tibet

by Blake Kerr

Published: 1993-06-01

Hardcover: 206 pages

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Sky Burial is the remarkable story of a young American man traveling in the Himalayas who inadvertently walked into one of the grimmest - and least-known - scenes of political oppression in the world. Blake Kerr had just graduated from medical school and was fulfilling a lifelong dream by ...

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Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing

by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi

Published: 2000-11-01

Paperback: 158 pages

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Al-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends p personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance known in the West as belly dancing. She conveys in this book not only the history and technique of grieving and mourning dances, pregnancy and birth dances, but the spirit...

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Mr. Rochester

by Sarah Shoemaker

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 464 pages

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"A CRACKING-GOOD READ!"--People, Best New BooksA deft and irresistible retelling of Charlotte Brontë's beloved classic Jane Eyre--from the point of view of the dashing, mysterious Mr. Rochester himself.For 170 years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most complex a...

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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together

by Van Jones

Published: 2017-10-10

Hardcover: 256 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” (The New York Times)...

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Little Big Sister

by Amy B. McCoy

Published: 2016-05-20

Paperback: 144 pages

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WINNER of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Children’s Fiction! Meet nine-year-old Katie, the little sister who feels like a big sister. Her eleven-year-old brother, Mikey, has autism. Katie can ride a two-wheeler, but Mikey’s bike still has training wheels. Katie rides the bus to...

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The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness

by Emily Esfahani Smith

Published: 2017-09-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s ...

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Paper Daughter

by Jeanette Ingold

Published: 2010-04-05

Kindle Edition: 229 pages

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Maggie Chen's journalist father has fired her imagination with the thrill of the newsroom, and when her father is killed, she is determined to keep his dreams alive by interning at the newspaper. While assisting on her first story, Maggie learns that her father is suspected of illegal acti...

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Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery about the Danger of Contact Sports

by Bennet Omalu

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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One day in 2002 the fifty-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster’s body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his deat...

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Night of the Animals: A Novel

by Bill Broun

Published: 2016-07-05

Hardcover: 560 pages

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Named a Best Book of 2016 by Slate "A story as wildly moving and singular as an animal’s eyes in the dark.” -- The New York TimesIn this imaginative debut, the tale of Noah’s Ark is brilliantly recast as a story of fate and family, set in a near-future London.Over the course of a sin...

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The Master Puppeteer

by Katherine Paterson

Published: 1989-03-24

Paperback: 179 pages

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Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, is determined to find out, even at risk t...