A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop
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A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Tags: Archbishop, Catholic, Church, Memoirs, Pilgrim
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
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Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her village’s first formal doctor. Yet not even Bashir’s degree could protect her from the encroaching conflict that would consume her homeland. Janjaweed Arab militias savagely assaulted the Zaghawa, often with the backing of the Sudanese military. Then, in early … More >>
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Trotsky: A Graphic Biography
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Trotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twentieth century, and in Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, the renowned comic artist Rick Geary uses his distinct style to depict the stark reality of the man and his times. Trotsky’s life becomes a guide to the creation of the Soviet Union, the horrors of World War I, and th… More >>
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. She vividly evokes her friendships, love intere… More >>
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Shaun White: Snow and Skateboard Champion
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Shaun White has become an icon of the extreme sports world. He has dominated in both snowboarding and skateboarding, despite being years younger than many of his competitors. With an Olympic Gold Medal added to his trophy case, there s no telling how high this guy will fly!… More >>
Shaun White: Snow and Skateboard Champion
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More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
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Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness. For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she’d held, and way too much weight. She couldn’t write, and her second book was past due. But when her do… More >>
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
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Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
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Until recently, popular biographies and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. 14 maps and 2 tables.Amazon.com Review
There’s no shortage of biographi… More >>
Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
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How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over
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“I feel like I’ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,” writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce.
Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daught… More >>
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over
Pocahontas
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Presents a brief look at the life of Pocahontas… More >>
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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The
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Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin, his actions become more and more extreme. He convinces himself that he is one of the chosen few and that, therefore, all his actions are right and good . . . even murder…. More >>
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The
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