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"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life."--Amazon.
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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At the height of the Cold War, a group of small-town men led their Czechoslovakian hockey team against the powerful Soviet team. At the same time, they inspired their nation's resistance to a Soviet invasion, finding a way to fight back against the authoritarian forces seeking to crush their society. At the heart of this story is the Holík family, who loved hockey and desired freedom.
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2023.
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English
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"An inside look at Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris's home run record and the franchise both men called home. Babe Ruth. Roger Maris. Aaron Judge. Three historic figures across generations of Major League Baseball, all swinging for the fences and calling Yankee Stadium home. After an epic home run chase in which the sport's biggest present-day star chased a pair of beloved legends down to the wire, their...
5) Salvador
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow...
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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
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2022.
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English
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"From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused...
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2020.
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English
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A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.
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The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, and he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays. This volume gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with wit and an unflinching eye, the essays examine his youth in California, the lives of his refugee parents, his intimate friendships, loss, pop culture, and more. And in linked fiction following three...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s--a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable belief in the power of art. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who live there--whether Muslim, Croat, or Serb--push the barriers aside....
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2021.
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"A YA nonfiction story about Ariel and her twin sister's experience living with Crouzon Syndrome"--
At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
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[2019]
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English
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"Sam Walton used the money he earned in the army, along with some financial help from his family, to open his first store. Then he opened fourteen more. Then Sam had an even bigger idea. He wanted to build large stores in small towns and reduce the price of everything they stocked. Although other businessmen and potential partners laughed at him, this entrepreneur with humble beginnings used his resourcefulness to create Walmart, which would become...
14) Servants
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Slovak
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In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is an international soccer star. But he wasn't always the best. He was once a child--just like you--who dreamed of playing professional soccer. Growing up in Brazil, Neymar practiced day and night, learning from his father and his coaches. Becoming a living legend takes hard work, a never-quit attitude, and some luck, too. Come along on Neymar's journey to see how a soccer star was born"--Jacket.
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Abbott Press
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English
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Author Charles Ota Heller's early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didn't last long. Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths in the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced.- Taken from book jacket
17) Miley Cyrus
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Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Profiles the life and career of singer and actress Miley Cyrus.
18) Isaac Asimov
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 578
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Isaac Asimov.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
20) The confession
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Criterion collection volume 759
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Français
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The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
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