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The Last Suppers

by Mandy Mikulencak

Published: 2017-12-26

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Set in 1950s Louisiana, Mandy Mikulencak’s beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help and Dead Man Walking with the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past.Many children hav...

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Yesterday's Dead

by Pat Bourke

Published: 2012-04-01

Paperback: 232 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher but must help support her family, so she travels to the city to work as kitchen help in a doctor's household. Conflicts with the butler, and with Maggie, the doctor's spoiled thirteen-year-old daughter, threaten her job from the start. As Spanish...

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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

by Richard Branson

Published: 2017-10-10

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the world’s ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No ...

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Bowie: Album by Album

by Paolo Hewitt

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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David Bowie is a shape-shifting, genre-twisting genius whose 27 albums over 40 years reveal a creative bigamist marrying pop and art, theatre and rock, fashion and film, sound and style. Bowie: Album by Album is the ultimate celebration of the entire career of the icon. Longtime fans and new followers...

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The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies: How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended

by Grace Brooks Hill

Published: 2016-02-14

Paperback: 106 pages

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Grace Brooks Hill was the name behind a number of popular kids books in the early 20th century, including The Corner House Girls.

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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...