Biography
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a … [more below]
- Author: Ajak, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1610395980
- Language: English
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Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography
$30.00 Add to cartWritten with Carroll Shelby’s full collaboration and with a foreword by Edsel B. Ford II, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, this is the definitive record of America’s preeminent twentieth century spor
- Author: Mills, Rinsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0760346461
- Language: English
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Maximilian Kolbe: The Saint of Auschwitz
$14.95 Read moreIt’s July 1941 in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe steps forward.
“Let me take this man’s place,” he says, thereby volunteering to die in t
- Author: Vivier, Jean-Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1644130807
- Language: English
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
$30.00 Read moreOne of the Best Books of the Year
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can su
* The Economist * The Christian Science Monitor * Financial Times *- Author: Gardiner, John Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1400031435
- Language: English
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Forward: A Memoir
$17.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Lucid and wrenching…Forward puts [Wambach’s] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor.” —NPR
“Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired g
- Author: Wambach, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 006246700X
- Language: English
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Inside the Battle of Algiers
$29.95 Add to cartThis gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the… [more below]
- Author: Drif, Zohra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1682570754
- Language: English
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The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story
$18.99 Add to cart“Wonderful ” (Grace Paley).
“Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written” (Detroit Free Press). “Provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie” (the Dallas- Author: Ben Izzy, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2005
- ISBN10: 1565125126
- Language: English
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Hidden History of the Florida Keys
$23.99 Add to cartThe Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic.
In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Albritton, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138916
- Language: English
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A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between
$19.99 Add to cartAward-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American super
- Author: Thompson, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0062469754
- Language: English
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Father and Son: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father’s experience in World War II, by a winner… [more below]
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593863151
- Language: English
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Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth (New Foreword by Meg Medina)
$26.99 Add to cartNEW EDITION with a Foreword by award-winning author Meg Medina.
During a time of heated immigration debate and unrest, this book is an opportunity to hear directly from youth who are often in the headl
- Author: Writers, Latin American Youth Center
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1950807622
- Language: Spanish
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Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy
$15.95 Add to cartStories of a Small Town Farm Boy takes author Eric Duling’s 1960s childhood on a big-family farm and brings it to life starting with the story of an anxious child trying to acclimate into the first gr
- Author: Duling, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 22 2023
- ISBN10: 197726039X
- Language: English
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Deranged
$16.99 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster and Harold Schechter comes Deranged, the shocking true story of America’s most fiendish killer. Schechter brings his expertise to the shocking true story of a murderer in the ear… [more below]
- Author: Schechter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0671025457
- Language: English
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Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values
$17.99 Add to cartSadie Robertson–former star of A&E’s Duck Dynasty and daughter of Willie and Korie Robertson–shares her outlook on life as she opens up about herself and the values that make her family what it is. … [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Sadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476777810
- Language: English
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Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
$19.95 Add to cartA Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and a Moonbeam Children’s Book Gold Award Winner, Photographic is a picture book biography of Graciela Iturbide from author Isabel Quintero and illustr… [more below]
- Author: Quintero, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1947440004
- Language: English
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Cleopatra: A Biography
$20.99 Add to cartFew personalities from classical antiquity are more famous–yet more poorly understood–than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a l… [more below]
- Series: Women in Antiquity
- Author: Roller, Duane W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0199829969
- Language: English
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Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes
$14.99 Add to cart**2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner**
A book for comic lovers and Japanophiles of all ages, Diary of a Tokyo Teen pre
**2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award Gold Medal Winner**- Author: Inzer, Christine Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 480531396X
- Language: English
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Delta Lady: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThe two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.
She inspired songs–Leon Rus
- Author: Coolidge, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006237205X
- Language: English
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Hidden History of the Florida Keys
$31.99 Add to cartThe Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and… [more below]
- Author: Albritton, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1540236757
- Language: English
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Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel
$25.43 Add to cartCreative icon, visionary, and dreamer, Stan Lee co-created many of pop culture’s most significant characters, including Spider-Man, Black Panther, and the Avengers. This young adult edition of Stan Le
- Author: Batchelor, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1538162059
- Language: English
