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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Nujood Ali
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“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough ha... more info>>
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Memoirs of a Slave Girl [MultiFormat]
by Harriet Jacobs
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An honest and fearless account of her exploitation as a slave. This is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, Black history, or the subject of sexual exploitation throughout history. Jacobs' story is unflinching and unusual in its candor. (Published: 2004)
Words: 82178 - Reading Time: 234-328 min.
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Left For Dead: My Journey Home from Everest [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Beck Weathers
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I am neither churchly nor a particularly spiritual person, but I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling--quite literally a dead man walking--into camp and the shaky start of my return to life. On May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in a blizzard high on Mount Everest, the single deadliest day ever on the peak. The following day, one of those victims was given a second chance. His name was Beck Weathers. The tale of Dr. Se... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 90000 - Reading Time: 257-360 min.
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Ben Mezrich
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The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends--outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance--and sexual success--was getting invited to join one of... more info>>
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All Over but the Shoutin' [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Rick Bragg
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This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most.But at the center of this soaring memoir is Brag... more info>>
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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Elie Wiesel
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From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and ultimately, of wisdom. of photos.
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And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969- [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Elie Wiesel
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As this concluding volume of his moving and revealing memoirs begins, Elie Wiesel is forty years old, a writer of international repute. Determined to speak out more actively for both Holocaust survivors and the disenfranchised everywhere, he sets himself a challenge: "I will become militant. I will teach, share, bear witness. I will reveal and try to mitigate the victims' solitude." He makes words his weapon, and in these pages we relive with him his unstinting battles. We see him meet with worl... more info>>
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Bad Boy [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather. A few years later, he was bellhopping at a hotel in Fort Worth, where he supplemented his income peddling bootleg out of the package room. He shuddered out the DTs as a watchman on a West Texas oil pipeline. He outraged teachers, cheated mobsters, and almost got himself beaten to death by a homicidal sheriff's deputy. And somewhere along the way, Thompson became one o... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 56269 - Reading Time: 160-225 min.
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Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Elisabeth Bumiller
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Condoleezza Rice, one of most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. In this stunning new biography, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W. Bush's national security adviser on September 11, 2001. The book relates in more intimate detail than ever before the personal voyage of a young black woman ... more info>>
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Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld
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The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life--an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told ... or lived. Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived. During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the inner circles of high society and stole more than $35 million worth of fabulous jewels from such celebrities as Robert Goulet... more info>>
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Keny... more info>>
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Firoozeh Dumas
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas's wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later ... more info>>
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Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Arthur Herman
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In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain's most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and caree... more info>>
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Danielle Steel
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"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death. I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want Nick's life to be not only a tender memory for us, but a gift to others.... I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. I want to make a difference. My hope is that someone will be able t... more info>>
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I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Rick Bragg
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On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed, caught in enemy cross fire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. Lynch, perhaps the most famous P.O.W. this country has ever known, was taken prisoner and held captive in an Iraqi hospital for nine days. Her rescue galvanized the nation; she became a symbol of victory, of innocence and courage, of heroism; and... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Maya Angelou
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Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Bill Bryson
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After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic mu... more info>>
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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Firoozeh Dumas
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Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran, but moved with her family to California when she was seven. Two years later, her family returned to Iran, only to come back to the United States just a few years later. Perhaps it was this early yo-yo travel experience that sharpened her sense of cultural identity. Dumas's Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America established her reputation as a humorist; in fact, it made Dumas the first American of Middle Eastern heritage to be nominated ... more info>>
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Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Ronald Kessler
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When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush's footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton? "I think I'll just be Laura Bush," she would say. On Saturday, April 30, 2005, the world got a glimpse of what that meant when she pushed aside the leader of the free world and stole the show at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Wearing... more info>>
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Gail Caldwell
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“It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.”
So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge.
They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Sto... more info>>
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Life is so Good [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by George Dawnson
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What makes a happy person, a happy life? In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father--a belief that "life is so good"--as he offers valuable lessons in living and a fresh, firsthand view of America during the twentieth century. Born in 1898 in Marshall, Texas, the grandson of slaves, George Dawson tells how his father, despite hardships, always believed in seeing the richness in life and trai... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 125000 - Reading Time: 357-500 min.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man who could Cure the World [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul F... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Open: An Autobiography [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Andre Agassi
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From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.Agassi's incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time ... more info>>
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The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Jeff Deck
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The signs of the times are missing apostrophes.
The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: “NO TRESSPASSING.” In that moment, his greater purpose became clear. Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilization… and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.
Recruiting his friend Benjamin and other valiant companions, he created the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Armed wi... more info>>
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The Path to Power [Secure eReader]
by Robert A. Caro
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the nat... more info>>
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