When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family’s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria’s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people.  

Waterlily, published after Deloria’s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse into the daily life of the nineteenth-century Sioux.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Waterlily

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.

For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.

Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.

Another Place at the Table

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Mark Twain

Maryland

Presents twenty-five letters written from Hawaii by Mark Twain in 1866 while he was working as a roving reporter for the Sacramento "Union," newspaper in which he shares his observations on the industry, people, scenery, climate, culture, society, and other aspects of life in the islands.

Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii *1975

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Mike Venezia

Slight edge wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

California

Charles Drew: Doctor Who Got the World Pumped up to Donate Blood (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists)

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Pennsylvania

Seven Years with Banksy is an illuminating memoir of the world's most celebrated graffiti artist, offering an insight into his life and work through the experiences that he and the author Robert Clarke shared together during Banksy's formative years. Clarke takes us through his first encounters with Banksy, which took place in a hotel in New York in the 1990s, and candidly describes how his friendship with this young English artist developed. Along the way, readers will discover more about the ever-mysterious Banksy - what makes him tick, why he does what he does, and why he ultimately rejects fame in favour of anonymity, setting him apart from many other popular artists of our time. This is the perfect read for any Banksy or modern-art fan.

Seven Years with Banksy

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#paperback #nonfiction #truecrime #mafia 

Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal

A new edition of the riveting "New York Times" and "Boston Globe" bestseller, updated with a new chapter on the capture of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger

Black Mass

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The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History

Called "a first-rate spy story" (Entertainment Weekly), The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside story of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen, a seemingly all-American boy who would become the perfect traitor, jeopardizing America's national security for over twenty years by selling top-secret information to the Russians. Drawing from a wide variety of sources in the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, and the intelligence community, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David A. Vise tells the story of how Hanssen employed the very sources and methods his own nation had entrusted to him in a devious game of deceit -- simply because he had something to prove. Vise also interweaves the narrative of how FBI director Louis B. Freeh led the government's desperate search for its betrayer among its own ranks, from the false leads, to the near misses, to its ultimate, shocking conclusion. Fascinating, gripping, and provocative, The Bureau and the Mole is a harrowing tale of how one man's treachery rocked a fraternity built on fidelity, bravery, and integrity -- and how the dedicated perseverance of another brought him to justice. "Absorbing ... Vise's account of Mr. Hanssen's road to becoming a double agent is fascinating." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Brisk, well documented ... a penetrating study of the villain and a gripping summary of the appalling evidence against him." -- Charles McCarry, The Wall Street Journal "A carefully researched and compelling account, with a startling bombshell." -- David W. Marston, The Baltimore Sun "Intelligent and well researched." -- Allen Weinstein, The Washington Post Book World

Bureau and the Mole

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The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous

Who Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory?

Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map.

From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary, and overlooked, wives and companions who are just as instrumental in shaping the destinies of their famous--and infamous--men.

This witty, illuminating book reveals the remarkable stories of forty captivating females, from Constance Lloyd (Mrs. Oscar Wilde) to Carolyn Adams (Mrs. Jerry Garcia), who have stood behind their legendary partners and helped to humanize them, often at the cost of their own careers, reputations, and happiness. Through fame and its attendant ills--alcoholism, infidelity, mental illness, divorce, and even attempted murder--these powerful women quietly propelled their men to the top and changed the course of history.

Meet the Untold Half of History, Including:

 * Alma Reville (Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock)
 * Elena Diakonova (Mrs. Salvador Dali)
 * Winifred Madikizela (Mrs. Nelson Mandela)
 * Ann Charteris (Mrs. Ian Fleming, a.k.a. Mrs. James Bond)
 * Ruth Alpern (Mrs. Bernie Maddoff)
 * And 35 more!

Behind Every Great Man

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#paperback #nonfiction #farming #farmtotable #food #foodknowledge 

A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.

The Dirty Life

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A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home

In Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.

By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the inspiration and motivation that has fueled her calling. Through a series of linked essays, this moving narrative picks up where her earlier memoir left off.

Exploring central themes of romance, death, parenting, self-care, and spiritual awakening, this touching and heartfelt homage speaks to all who have faced challenges in the wake of life's twists and turns. From finding love in middle-age to her storied experience with stepparenting to overcoming disordered eating to her final moments spent with her late mother, Dickinson's trademark humorous tone delivers punch and wit that will empower, entertain, and heal.

Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things

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#paperback #history #nazigermany #nonfiction #survival #personalaccount 

How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust





#1 New York Times Bestseller

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.

In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.

Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust--complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

Nazi Officer's Wife

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#paperback #nonfiction #faith #biography #autobiography #missions #adoption #christin 

A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Recounts the story of a young woman's moving to Uganda and founding Amazima ministries, a nonprofit organization to feed and educate children.

Kisses from Katie

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A Personal History of Violence

A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner.
 
Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama--long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for "Superman", Geoffrey Canada was a small boy growing up scared on the mean streets of the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where "sidewalk boys" learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. 

Fist Stick Knife Gun

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A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love

When Kiri Blakeley's fianc made his shocking announcement, she did what she does best: cracked a joke. When Blakeley realised her 10-year relationship was built on lies, she screamed, then drank and then spent the ensuing months in a foggy new world of sexual encounters. Can't Think Straight is a brutally honest, self-deprecating, emotionally wrenching and laugh-out-loud memoir of betrayal...and learning to love - whatever that means - again.

Can't Think Straight

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The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL

The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to prevent violence or people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

The Heart and the Fist

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A Memoir

From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power and mystery of a live performance. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s. They would be cited as “America’s best rock band” by legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant brand of punk that resisted labels and limitations, and redefined notions of gender in rock. HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era’s flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later. With deft, lucid prose Brownstein proves herself as formidable on the page as on the stage. Accessibly raw, honest and heartfelt, this book captures the experience of being a young woman, a born performer and an outsider, and ultimately finding one’s true calling through hard work, courage and the intoxicating power of rock and roll.

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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Carolyn E. Phillips

In November of 1976, eight-year-old Michelle Price learned that a malignant tumor, (osteogenic sarcoma) was growing in her leg. Even with the amputation and months of painful chemotherapy treatments, the doctors gave her only a 4% chance of living. 

Today Michelle is a lively, outgoing, and witty young lady filled with life. She has faced the reality of death and accepted the loss of her leg and 18 months of chemotherapy with awesome courage. 

Michelle has won the hearts of many with her cheerfulness and simple but deep faith in God. She skis in competition each year and is an accomplished horseback rider whose courage and determination as an athlete were recognized by the Sportsman's Club in June, 1978 and in July, 1981. They awarded her Victor Awards on national television, annual events honoring those men and women who have made the greatest contributions to 20th century sports. 

Michelle is a remarkable story of a very special young lady. You'll laugh at her antics and cry with her through disappointments; but as you share this portion of her life, you'll surely fall in love with her.

Arkansas

The Story of Michelle Price

Michelle (Vintage 1980)

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#paperback #nonfiction #biography #autobiography #wild #bodymindspirit #fiction #travel 

New Jersey

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

Wild

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#paperback #autobiography #nonfiction #cooking #juliachild #biography #delightful #love 

A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as "The French Chef." Reprint. 175,000 first printing.

My Life in France

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Norman P. Grubb

Texas

Intercessor

Can one man's prayers change world events? This vivid, inspiring biography tells the story of a Welsh coal miner who surrendered himself entirely to God and found the key to prayer that changed the course of many nations.

Rees Howells

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Tony Dungy

Denzel Washington

Nathan Whitaker

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

A biography of the coach of the Indianapolis Colts and the first African American football coach to lead his team to a Superbowl victory concentrates on his religious life as well as his career in football.

Quiet Strength

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#paperback #nonfiction #biography #fiction #addiction #memoir #jamesfrey #autobiography 

A memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and the rehabilitation experience examines addiction and recovery through the eyes of a man who had taken his addictions to deadly extremes, describing the battle to confront the consequences of his life.

A Million Little Pieces

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Carol Greene

Light mileage on cover. Sticker residue and storage dents. In great shape despite subtle flaws. Pages very crisp and clean. Please see photos for reference.

The March King

John Philip Sousa

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Bradley Stephens

Virginia

Victor Hugo is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the Second Empire in exile, he became synonymous with the progressive ideals of the French Revolution. His state funeral in Paris made headlines across the world, and his breadth of appeal remains evident today, not least thanks to the popularity of his bestseller, Les Misérables, and its myriad theatrical and cinematic incarnations. This biography, the first in English for more than twenty years, provides a concise but comprehensive exploration of Hugo’s monumental body of work within the context of his dramatic life. Hugo wrestled with family tragedy and personal misgivings while being pulled into the turmoil of the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon’s Empire to the rise of France’s Third Republic. Throughout these twists of fate, he sensed a natural order of collapse and renewal. This unending cycle of creation shaped his ideas about freedom and roused his imagination, which he channeled into his prolific writing and other outlets like drawing. As Bradley Stephens argues, such creative intellectual vigor suggests that Hugo was too restless to sit comfortably on the pedestal of literary greatness; Hugo’s was a mind as revolutionary as the time in which he lived.

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