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Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A sex trafficking survivor and disability activist, after suffering unimaginable loss, illustrates how to find courage even in the darkest moments, giving women the permission to wrestle with difficult topics, honor the wisdom of their bodies and enact change from a place of strong faith.
2063) Warrior: a memoir
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this inspiring memoir, a former female Marine platoon leader recalls the wars she has fought--on the playing field, the battlefield, and inside her own soul--revealing how overcoming the harrowing circumstances in her life helped her ultimately redefine what it means to be strong and what "perfect" really is. Theresa Larson has lived multiple lives. At ten she was a caregiver to her dying mother. As an adolescent, an All-Star high school, college,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The security and freedom of billions of people around the globe depend on the D.O.D, yet to most Americans the Pentagon nothing more than an opaque five-sided box that they regard with a mixture of awe and suspicion. A former Secretary of Defense, Carter takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world--without a road map to guide her. The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college student at the University of Hawaii and her nights as a dancer at a strip club. Finally content in her body, she vacillates between flaunting and concealing...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The son of middle-class Shiite doctors in Yemen shares his moving story of love, war and hope that describes his harrowing escape from regional fanaticism and civil unrest through a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of Western interfaith activists.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This story is rooted in the power of sport, but it is not a sports memoir. Yes, Course Correction chronicles one young woman's transformation from a couch potato-in-training into an elite athlete who reached the highest echelon of her sport. In addition, the book offers a persuasive example of the enormous impact of sports participation on the rest of life and validates the power, import, and necessity of Title IX. Just like Ginny, girls everywhere...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A harrowing account co-written by a celebrated French-American war journalist who was held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013 describes how he was betrayed by his fixer and bound, beaten and blindfolded by captors who introduced him to their language and culture, inadvertently helping him discover within himself a faith that helped him to survive.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Powerful methods for global investing from a dual expert on Chinese and U.S. markets Tiger Woman on Wall Street is the remarkable story of how one woman has risen to the top of the traditionally male-dominated world of finance. Raised by "tiger parents" in China in the 1980s, when the Chinese economy was just starting to boom, Junh Li came to the United States to attend college and climbed her way up to the top with a relentless personal drive and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1963, [Peggy] was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students from entering the University of Alabama. This man, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace, was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts. But he was also a larger-than-life father to young Peggy, who was taught to smile, sit straight, and not speak up...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for...
2077) Dangerous ground
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For the first time, investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of "Raven," the serial killer who co-starred with him on 'Dark Minds' and tells the story of his intriguing bond with one of America's most disturbing killers.
Author
Language
English
Description
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three months their artillery proving decisive against a phantom...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair. Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Fortune, the name of Harper's first nonindigenous ancestor...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of translation; another describes her decision to translate her own...
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