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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia--a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone--until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage....
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intimate account--the first from a trail veterinarian--of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod. Few events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite subzero temperatures and white-out winds, hundreds of dogs and mushers journey to Anchorage, Alaska, to participate in "The Last Great Race on Earth," a grueling, thousand-mile race across the Alaskan wilderness....
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB304
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1975, ©1967]
Language
English
Description
"Witness and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the full story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For Joey Philion, surviving the fire was only the beginning. On the morning of March 10th, 1988, in Orillia, Ontario, a house fire engulfed fourteen-year-old Joey Philion in flames. He suffered third degree burns on 95 percent of his body. Doctors didn’t think he would make it through the night. After the Flames is about one of the world's most famous burn victims: his incredible survival, his nightmarish path to recovery that helped revolutionize...
Author
Publisher
Cross Training Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Dan Meers goes to work each day like many other men, dressed in a suit. The only difference is instead of wearing a tie with his suit, Dan wears a tail. You see, Dan has an unusual occupation; he is a professional mascot. For more than 30 years Dan has served as KC Wolf, the mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs football team. In 2006 Dan became the first NFL mascot inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame. Although his occupation is mascot, his preoccupation...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)-- she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist--and was determined to make that dream come true."--
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of my childhood in Brazil, about the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the forests of northern Sweden and about the loss of the people I loved most. It's about what I remember of my childhood in the Brazilian wilderness, on the streets of São Paulo, in the orphanage. And it's about my early days in Sweden, when I found myself dropped into a place and life that couldn't have been in sharper contrast to what I had known"--Back...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Five girls played together in the Smith Sisters Orchestra: Irene on trombone, Erma on vibraphone, Edwina on trumpet, Mildred on violin, and Lila on saxophone. But what of the littlest sister? When Viola's time came, almost every instrument was taken...except one. When she first sat behind a drum kit, she lost the beat, made a terrible racket, and had more fun than she'd ever had before. Viola took to the road with her family, learned from the greats,...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
He will stay in Auschwitz to the bitter end if it means his brother might survive. Poland, 1940. Moshe and his family flee their hometown of Warsaw in a desperate bid for survival as Nazi forces advance on the city. Hiding under false identities, they hope to wait out the end of the war, which must surely be near. But nowhere is truly safe for Poland's Jews, and soon Moshe and his brother find themselves en route to Auschwitz, from where no one returns....
Author
Publisher
Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this inspiring memoir, a renowned woodworker shares how he found happiness despite real-life struggles with drug addiction, anxiety, depression, financial despair, and permanent blindness caused by a failed suicide attempt at the age of sixteen. As John struggled to free himself from addiction, search for his independence, and find his purpose, he met his future wife, Anni, an artist who also faced her own physical and mental health challenges....
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"To be called a witch, a bitch, a demon, or a monster is to be seen as a member of an ancient and large community of marginalized people who could not or would not wear the glamours a fearful elite jealously guarding their hordes of power demand as acts of reassurance and fealty. This collection of essays recounts the lives and trials of accused witches and considers parallels to present-day questions of social justice"--
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the judge, she was a young Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn, inspired by books, past female trailblazers, and her mother to make the world a better, more just place to be. So even when people turned her away—for being a girl and for being Jewish—she never stopped fighting for equal treatment for everyone by pushing back against unjust laws and the beliefs around them. This friendly,...
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Jesus' story doesn't start with, "Once upon a time ..." It starts with, "In the beginning ..." That's because the story of Jesus is no fairy tale. It's the true, eternal story of love and salvation that only God could have "written." Jesus' life was far from a fairy tale. There were no castles, great wealth, or glorious battles. Jesus was poor, humble, and died in the worst way possible-tortured and friendless. But at the end of this book we do find...
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"All-Stars are the elite of the elite. Discover the legends that still stand head and shoulders above the rest, and today's stick and puck heroes playing one of the fastest and toughest sports in the world. All-Stars are the gold standard - share their triumphs!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning author presents the history and impact of both the theatrical and cinematic versions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how it forced audiences to confront deeply-held concepts about relationships, sex and family.