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Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians (Five Star Paperback)

by Garth Cartwright

Published: 2011-04-19

Paperback: 320 pages

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"It's a feverish travelogue. . . .The enthusiasm is completely infectious."—Chicago Reader"Princes Amongst Men is steeped in history, culture, and the foundations of Roma musical heritage."—The Bookwatch"Insightful, energized, and empathetic."—Time OutOn his wild and affectionate jou...

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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

by Naoki Higashida

Published: 2017-07-11

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of life as a young adult with autism Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an interna...

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Island Songs

by Alex Wheatle

Published: 2006-09-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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A beautiful evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked outpost of the dwindling British Empire, Island Songs is an epic of love, diaspora, and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never revealed....

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The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

Published: 2010

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Aya: Life in Yop City

by Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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"Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It's essential reading." -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi's CatIvory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by somethi...

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Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story

by Erik Weihenmayer

Published: 2002-03-26

Paperback: 342 pages

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The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity AdvantageErik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead ...

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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

by Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney

Published: 2017-10-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney p...

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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do

by Matthew Syed

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it’s safe to fail. ?We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it’s underperforming at a...

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Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

by Matthew Syed

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tip...

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A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11

by Marian Fontana

Published: 2006-09-11

Paperback: 448 pages

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On September 11, I dropped my son off at his second full day of kindergarten. The sky was so blue it looked as if it had been ironed. I crossed the street, ordered coffee, and sat to wait for my husband to meet me. It was our eighth wedding anniversary and Dave and I were about to begin a...