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Book	Carry on, warrior : thoughts on life unarmed "For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to life, committing herself to living out loud and giving language to our universal (yet often secret) experiences. She became a sensation when her personal essays started going viral. Her ... observations have been read by millions, shared among friends, discussed at water coolers, and have now inspired a social movement. In [this book], Melton shares new stories and the best-loved material from Momastery.com. Her mistakes and triumphs demonstrate that love wins and that together we can do hard things"--Dust jacket flap. Melton, Glennon Doyle, 1976- BIO Added: April 8, 2013
Book	Mom & me & mom In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their reunion a decade later began a story that has never before been told. Angelou, Maya. BIO Added: April 8, 2013
Book	If it's not one thing, it's your mother Sweeney, Julia. BIO Added: April 4, 2013
Book	Still me An absorbing memoir about how it feels, having been athletic all one's life, to wake up and be completely paralyzed and dependent. Reeve, Christopher, 1952-2004. BIO Added: April 4, 2013
Book	The charlatan : the skeptical, mysterious, supernatural true story of a Christian magician Jim Munroe tells his story of how he lived his passion for amazing audiences as a magician. MAZE, more than just a magic show, has entertained crowds and raised thought-provoking discussions. Life-threatening leukemia, doubts, heartache, loss and other lows in his life, matched by faith, restoration, and success speak to our own struggles and dreams. Munroe, Jim, magician. BIO Added: April 4, 2013
Book	Beyond the bear : how I learned to live and love again after being blinded by a bear A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's Kenai and Russian rivers, a grizzly came tearing around a corner in the trail. Dan barely had time for "bear charging" to register before it had him on the ground, altering his life forever. His life was shattered by the mauling that nearly killed him, that left him blind and disfigured. Bigley, Dan. BIO Added: April 3, 2013
Book	The center of the universe : a memoir Bachrach, Nancy. BIO Added: April 3, 2013
Book	Cats & daughters : they don't always come when called Brown, Helen, 1954- BIO Added: April 3, 2013
Book	Brothers Emanuel : a memoir of an American family A portrait of the dynamic Emanuel brothers cites their achievements in medicine, politics, and Hollywood, offering insight into the family history, unique upbringing, and social atmosphere that influenced their lives. Emanuel, Ezekiel J., 1957- BIO Added: April 2, 2013
Book	Working in the Northwest woods : [a personal history] Willard, Dennis. BIO Added: April 1, 2013
Book	Margaret Fuller : a new American life Explores the life and career of the 19th-century American journalist, intellectual, and advocate of personal liberation. Marshall, Megan. BIO Added: April 1, 2013
Book	A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Nasar, Sylvia. BIO Added: March 29, 2013
Book	The baroness : the search for Nica, the rebellious Rothschild A biography of the author's great-aunt, jazz patroness Nica de Koenigswarter, drawing on family records to examine the traditions that shaped her youth, her marriage to Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, and her role in supporting the New York jazz world. Rothschild, Hannah, 1962- BIO Added: March 28, 2013
Book	I would die 4 u : why Prince became an icon Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Toure? investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures in contemporary American culture: Prince. Drawing on new research and enlivened by Toure?'s unique pop-cultural fluency, I Would Die 4 U relies on surprising and in-depth interviews with Prince's band members, former girlfriends, musicologists, and even Bible scholars to deconstruct the artist's life and work. Prince's baby boomer status allowed him to play a wise older brother to the latchkey kids of generation X. Defying traditional categories of race, gender, and sexuality, he nonetheless presents a very traditional conception of religion and God in his music. He was an MTV megastar and a religious evangelist, using images of sex and profanity to invite us into a musical conversation about the healing power of God. By demystifying the man and his music, I Would Die 4 U shows us how Prince defined a generation.--Publisher's description. Touré, 1971- BIO Added: March 28, 2013
Book	With or without you : a memoir The author grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston where in the 17th century women were hanged as witches, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. Kathi frequently kept her daughter home from school to watch such classics as the Godfather movies and everything by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. Despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. This is the story of the author's unconventional coming of age, a chronicle of a misfit '90s youth and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. Ruta, Domenica. BIO Added: March 28, 2013
Book	Christopher and his kind Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. BIO Added: March 28, 2013
Book	Lifesaving lessons : notes from an accidental mother "Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature-- a newly adopted teenage daughter Linda Greenlaw isn't a woman who shies away from a challenge-- a nationally renowned swordfish boat captain made famous in the film The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw is also a bestselling author and a television celebrity. Through hard work and determination, she had created a life of peaceful independence, living on a rugged island off the coast of Maine. Then came Mariah. A troubled fifteen-year-old, Mariah arrives on the island to stay with her uncle, an island newcomer and seemingly normal guy. The entire community is rocked when it is revealed that Mariah has suffered terrible abuse at his hands, and the island comes together to rescue the teenager from further harm. Alone and at risk, Mariah needs a guardian and the island residents nominate Linda, who is not exactly the picture of maternal warmth. A remarkably candid and tenderly funny memoir, Lifesaving Lessons follows this unexpected mother-daughter pair as they navigate their new life together, learning to trust themselves and each other and forge the loving family that neither of them knew they needed. "-- Greenlaw, Linda, 1960- BIO Added: March 26, 2013
Book	I dreamed I was a very clean tramp : an autobiography The progenitor of American and British punk rock shares his journey, from his arrival on the streets of New York in 1967 to his rise to fame, touring with such bands as The Clash and The Sex Pistols, to his full-blown descent into drug addiction. Hell, Richard. BIO Added: March 25, 2013
Book	Still points north : one Alaskan childhood, one grown-up world, one long journey home A memoir from the travel writer and editor who spent her childhood moving between her "Great Alaskan" father on the tundra in the summer and her more urbane mother in Baltimore during the school year, a lifestyle that led to an adult who both feared and idolized human connection. Newman, Leigh. BIO Added: March 25, 2013
Book	Karl Marx : a nineteenth-century life A biography of the philosopher and political revolutionary describes his childhood and family life along with his public life as an agitator and dissident and compares him to his contemporaries. Sperber, Jonathan, 1952- BIO Added: March 22, 2013
Book	The hands of war : a tale of endurance and hope, from a survivor of the Holocaust "During World War II, Marione and her family miraculously escape the firestorms of Hamburg and seek shelter with a contact in the countryside who grudgingly agrees to house them in a shed for more than a year. "--Provided by publisher. Ingram, Marione, author. BIO Added: March 22, 2013
Book	John Spellman : politics never broke his heart Hughes, John C. (John Charles), 1943- BIO Added: March 22, 2013
Book	An enlarged heart : a personal history A New York City writer shares episodes from her life that reflect the cyclical nature of the past and her relationships with a range of people and places, from an energetic tailor and a twice-married mom to literary co-workers and the patrons of vanished restaurants. Zarin, Cynthia. BIO Added: March 22, 2013
Book	Nothing is impossible : reflections on a new life Reeve, Christopher, 1952-2004. BIO Added: March 22, 2013
Book	Roger Ailes : off camera "An illuminating look at the life, politics, and practices of Roger Ailes, founder and CEO of Fox News Channel. As a political consultant, he helped put Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush in the White House"-- Chafets, Zeʼev. BIO Added: March 22, 2013
Book	Scoop : the evolution of a southern reporter Nelson, Jack, 1929-2009. BIO Added: March 21, 2013
Book	Bigger is better : real life wisdom from the no-drama mama Angela "Big Ang" Raiola describes her life, and role on the television show, Mob wives. Big Ang. BIO Added: March 21, 2013
Book	Gypsy boy on the run : my escape from a life among the Romany gypsies Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows all too well. Growing up, he didn't go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his world. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonizing decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape to find somewhere to belong. Walsh, Mikey. BIO Added: March 21, 2013
Book	When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. When We Were Outlaws offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s. Brash and ambitious, activist Jeanne Co?rdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is "to the revolution" --to change the world and end discrimination against gays and lesbians. Trying to compartmentalize her sexual life, she becomes an investigative reporter for the famous, underground L.A. Free Press and finds herself involved with covering the Weather Underground, Angela Davis, exposing neo-Nazi bomber Captain Joe Tomassi, and befriending Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army. At the same time she is creating what will be the center of her revolutionary lesbian world: her own newsmagazine, The Lesbian Tide, destined to become the voice of the national lesbian feminist movement. By turns provocative and daringly honest, Cordova renders emblematic scenes of the era--ranging from strike protests to utopian music festivals, to underground meetings with radical fugitives--with period detail and evocative characters. For those who came of age in the '70s, and for those who weren't around but still ask 'What was it like?' --Outlaws takes you back to re-live it. It also offers insights about ethics, decision making and strategy, still relevant today. With an introduction by renowned lesbian historian Lillian Faderman, When We Were Outlaws paints a vivid portrait of activism and the search for self-identity, set against the turbulent landscape of multiple struggles for social change that swept hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets. Córdova, Jeanne. BIO Added: March 21, 2013
Book	Coolidge A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. Shlaes, Amity. BIO Added: March 19, 2013
Book	Beautiful Nate : a memoir of a family's love, a life lost, and heaven's promises Mansfield, Dennis. BIO Added: March 19, 2013
Book	After the fall : a climber's true story of facing death and finding life DeMartino, Craig, 1965- BIO Added: March 19, 2013

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