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Suzanne Falter
Destined (Oaktown Girls)
We are all destined to learn certain lessons in life ... and love certain people. Whether we're ready to or not. Garage owner Lizzy is finally about to move in with her love Kate, an Irish expat, until ICE shows up and threatens to deport her. Soon Kate is living in a Sanctuary church and Lizzy ...
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Mary Monroe
Mama Ruby (A Mama Ruby Novel)
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe presents an unforgettable tale featuring the rebellious early years of Mama Ruby, the indomitable heroine of her acclaimed novel The Upper Room. Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Ruby Jean Upshaw is the kind of girl who knows what she wants and kno...
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Matthew Fox
Meditations with Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, declared heretic, and an early advocate of creation-centered spirituality. This tradition affirms humanity’s potential to act divinely, and it embraces life--living and dying, growing old and sinning, groaning and celebrating--as the cr...
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Andre Rison
WIDE OPEN: The Andre Rison Story
WIDE OPEN IS ANDRE "BAD MOON" RISON'S Detailed account of his unbelievable journey from Flint, Michigan to a superstar football player in the National Football League. The unbroken, multi-talented, yet enigmatic one, authentically shares his truth about his association with Tupac Shakur, friendship...
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Arthur W. Wiggins
The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science
An in-depth look at the theories behind the most intriguing puzzles in physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and astronomy In The Five Biggest Ideas in Science , authors Arthur W. Wiggins and Charles M. Wynn discussed science's most important current ideas. Now, they tackle the questions that...
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Jeff Talarigo
In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees
"As much a book of poetry as a novel, as much a symphony as a memoir, this is an extraordinary book from a writer at the top of his powers. Reminiscent of Berger and Calvino, Jeff Talarigo manages to capture the breadth and circumference of story-telling, while also giving us a privileged insight in...
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Jim Stovall
Words That Shaped Our World Volume Two: Legendary Voices of History: Quotes that Changed How We Think, What We Do, and Who We Are
The fastest way to success in any endeavor of life is to study the wisdom of people who have been where you want to go—this collective wisdom is stored between quotation marks and offered to you in Words That Shaped Our World Volume Two . These significant quotations are powerful not only for t...
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Jack London
The Road (Mint Editions (In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives))
During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others―homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of hoppi...
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Mary Monroe
Family of Lies
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe weaves a stunning portrait of a family immersed in deceit—and the women whose happiness depends on the secrets they keep… After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in l...
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Davis Love III
Every Shot I Take
As Davis Love III walked the fairways of the Oakland Hills Country Club, in contention during the final round of the 1996 U.S. Open Championship, he had a powerful ally on his side. For the rest of the nation the day may have been Father's Day, but for Love every day on a golf course is father's day...
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Phil Zielke
Seeing the Good In It
WHERE IS HOPE FOUND IN TIMES OF DEEP SUFFERING?   At the age of twenty-two, Phil Z was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Instead of starting his new career as a fourth-grade teacher and getting engaged to the love of his life, he experienced uncertainty and despair in the face of tes...
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Glenn Burke
Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball's First Openly Gay Player
Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first—and only—openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league’s color barrier. Thi...
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Jack London
Children of the Frost
Children of the Frost (1902) is a collection of stories by Jack London that follows the adventures of men and women living in the harsh, unforgiving environment of Alaska. It captures the struggles of the human spirit to survive in the extreme cold, and the triumphs and tragedies that come with i...
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John Walsh
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century
Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty "I don't think there's any glory in being remembered as old moneybags," said oil baron J. Paul Getty in the early l950s, when he was vacill...
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Jack London
The Road (Mint Editions (In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives))
During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others―homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of hoppi...
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this “superb and terrifying” ( Chicago Tribune ) work of nonfiction. “Shattering . . . A truly rough, stomach-turning, yet fascinating view of Pop Sociology.”— San Francisc...
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LJ Alonge
Janae #2 (Blacktop)
An action-packed basketball series from author LJ Alonge set on the courts of Oakland, CA. Janae works every day at her Granny’s Strange Goods Superstore, selling lucky rabbits’ feet and other useless junk. And every night, after closing up shop, she dominates the courts with her boys.  When...
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MS Gertrude Stein
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein, Fiction, Literary, LGBT, Gay
The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable. -- Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein wrote many odd and peculiar texts and this work -- Tender Buttons -- is among the best known of them. Stein's wonderful and peculiar approach to the langua...
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Krazy George Henderson
Krazy George: Still Krazy After All These Cheers
Krazy George made the world stand up and cheer. His autobiography is the good-natured, factual, and humorous account of how he transformed himself from George Michael Henderson, a shy Clark Kent to Krazy George, the leather-lunged firebrand he is today. Armed with just his unamplified voice and his ...
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Jack London
The God of His Fathers and Tales of the Klondike
The God of His Fathers and Other Stories by Jack London, originally published in 1901, is a collection of eleven stories that explore the lives of those living in the wilds of the Yukon. Each story showcases London's masterful writing style and his exploration of the human experience in the face of...
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