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Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Published: 2010-04-29

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. "Pappy" use...

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Losing My Mind : An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's

by Thomas DeBaggio

Published: 2003-03-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind i...

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Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

by Richard Branson

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 624 pages

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The unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time, Richard Branson.In little more than twenty-five years, Richard Branson spawned nearly a hundred successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Rec...

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Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

by Richard Branson

Published: 1999-10-19

Paperback: 416 pages

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"Oh, screw it, let's do it."That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin...

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Losing the Moon

by Patti Callahan Henry

Published: 2004-05-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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Amy Reynolds is stunned when her first, great love suddenly reappears. A happily married mother of two, she wants nothing to do with him. But then-needing to know why he was ripped from her life without explanation-Amy becomes obsessed with the idea that maybe they really were meant to be ...

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Losing You

by Nicci French

Published: 2008-04-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family

by Lou Ann Walker

Published: 1987-09-23

Paperback: 224 pages

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From the time she was a toddler, Lou Ann Walker was the ears and voice for her deaf parents. Their family life was warm and loving, but outside the home, they faced a world that misunderstood and often rejected them. "A fascinating personal testament."--Chicago Sun Times Book Review

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The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History

by V.S. Naipaul

Published: 2003-04-08

Paperback: 400 pages

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The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul?himself a native of Trinidad'shows how that delusion drew a small island...

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Loss of Innocence: A Daughter's Addiction. A Father's Fight to Save Her

by Ron Clem, Carren Clem

Published: 2008-05-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Told both from Carren's perspective as a former meth addict and from her father's perspective, Loss of Innocence is one family's opportunity to prove that there is life after drug addiction. The Clems were a perfectly normal, middle class American family?then 15-year-old Carren became add...

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Lost & Found

by Jacqueline Sheehan

Published: 2007-04-24

Paperback: 304 pages

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A poignant and unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on . . . with the help of one not-so-little dogRocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor . . . and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off al...