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In this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, the award-winning actor and activist provides an intimate view into both her public and private worlds as she chronicles her life's journey thus far, sharing how she discovered her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.
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2023.
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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
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On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions:
"Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?"
Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did.
Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings...
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Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery.
Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a gorgeous wife; a pillar of his community. But lurking beneath the thin veneer of having it all was an addict fueled on a daily boatload of prescription meds. When...
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In 2009 Cristina Nehring's brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. An important new voice had appeared in American letters. Just as suddenly, Nehring seemed to disappear-only to reemerge like a bolt from the blue. "Now unexpectedly, writes California poet laureate Dana Gioia, "from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke, that explains her years of silence....
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Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life.
The audiobook is an exclusive musical experience, read and performed by Melissa. It features live, stripped-down performances of many of
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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
9) Little Molly
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This is a true story of Molly, who by the age of four had suffered so many beatings and experienced so much sexual abuse that she suffered from an enormous fear of human contact. In a period of six years among a family of twelve only her abusers themselves were aware of her constant pain and suffering. Her other siblings, her father and her mother knew nothing until it was too late, and even then they found it difficult to accept that it happened...
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This is a story of my life and how I was able to overcome yeas of torture, typical hardships, and trauma. This shows the path that led me to a very different ending than a lot of the people that I came across in my life. This also tells a little bit about where the characters are now in their life as a contrast to where they were in the beginning of the story. It follows me through the precious moments in my life. There were some incredible miracle...
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In May of 2021, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer. I had joined the men's club that no man wants to join.Prostate cancer is the second most frequent cancer diagnosis made in men and the fifth leading cause of death worldwide.This is my story of trials and tribulations of cancer treatment with a surprising alternative cure.
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Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the U.S. to board at an experimental British school. A vivid and intense memoir of coming of age amidst the unraveling social experiment of the late 1960s.
When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in England, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils...
14) Max
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An astonishing, moving tribute to Alex's friend, Max Blatt, that is at once a meditation on memory itself, on friendship and a reminder to the reader that history belongs to humanity.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARD
'Max is haunted by devastating insights. Blatt told Miller that the hardest part of torture was the realisation that the torturer was also your brother. It is the same generosity that makes Max such a compelling argument...
15) Ma in All Caps
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MA IN ALL CAPS is a laugh-out-loud hilarious "ma-moir" about an irrepressible woman, known to world as MA. Epic and sweeping in its storytelling, but as intimate as a son's love for his ailing mother, it's David Sedaris meets Amy Tan in a family saga with an unforgettable tiger mom holding center stage.
Ma is the opinionated matriarch of the Kuo clan, the scion of a once wealthy and powerful Chinese family that lost everything during two devastating...
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The truth is I'm a really good girl. Despite all the lies that have been spread over the last decade about me, I am a child of God. I've made my mistakes but have more than paid for them. I was born to a mother who dearly loved me. My father, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with me. He thought I was illegitimate, so he treated me as an unwanted child. My parents divorced when I was two years old and I spent the next 33 years looking for a...
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Stumbling Into Infinity is the intimate and sometimes startling account of Michael Fischman's spiritual journey and the encounter that changed his life forever.
His story opens on a flight to India, as he reflects on the unusual chain of events that led him from a challenging childhood to his unexpected role as friend and helper to a renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader.
Michael Fischman's fascinating and personal memoir takes us into...
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Mueren las luces y otra vida se enciende. ¿Qué hay en ese lienzo tan repentinamente activo? Según se mire: unas figuras ficticias, una vulgar radiación o, para los líricos, la materia con que se tejen los sueños. Ésa es la materia de esta obra: un sueño de carne y hueso. Aquí hallaremos la aproximación más física a las entrañas del oficio cinematográfico. También a quienes lo ejercen: los célebres, los anónimos, los artistas, los...
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Der Brief eines unbekannten Priesters bringt Maries Leben in Aufruhr. Er schreibt, dass er ihre Eltern gut gekannt hat und unbedingt sein Wissen über sie mit ihr teilen möchte. Das kann nichts Gutes bedeuten, findet Marie. Sie holt ihre vor vielen Jahren angefertigten Aufzeichnungen hervor, die von ihrer schrecklichen Kindheit erzählen. Bilder aus längst vergangener Zeit holen sie ein und setzen sich erneut tief in ihrer Seele fest. Als sie den...
20) Mean City Blues
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These are my journal entries of 1994. I had a hard time getting settled here in the city. My biggest struggle was finding housing, because I couldn't afford anything. The cost of living in New York City is absolutely astronomical! That was my first lesson of life inside the Big Apple. Many were the hard knocks and life lessons that were learned during this period. It was a pretty rough and tumble time in my life, and I definitely would not want...