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Awakening Kali

by T. S. Ghosh

Published: 2016-01-07

Paperback: 216 pages

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It's the 1930s. A small house in Bengal houses a shadow. Chhaya is the youngest daughter in a family that doesn't want her. Shunned for her gender and dark skin, she has no choice but to conceal her feelings. Imprison herself. Shackle herself into a life that has no proper outlet for emot...

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Rosa Parks: My Story

by Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins

Published: 1999-01-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Yet there is much more to her story than this one act of defiance. In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the...

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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy

by Annette Gordon-Reed

Published: 1998-03-29

Paperback: 288 pages

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When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication...

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Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business

by Porter Erisman

Published: 2015-05-12

Hardcover: 256 pages

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**One of six of The Wall Street Journal's "Best Business Books of 2015"**In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history – bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, m...

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One Peanut at a Time: Autobiography: One Woman’s Trek of Trials and Triumphs

by Cleaster Whitehurst-Mims

Published: 2016-01-07

Paperback: 340 pages

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“One Peanut at a Time” is a journey of a lady, an educator, a political activist, and a Ceo of the Cleaster Mims College Prep and International Boarding schools. Like a long-distance runner, she learned from her life as a sharecropper's daughter how to plan and reach one goal after the next. Cleaster...

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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

by James Nestor

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 • Scientific American Recommended Read“Fascinating, informative, exhilarating.” —Wall Street JournalDeep is a voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious p...

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The Arrow Catcher

by Jim Mather

Published: 2013-09-21

Paperback: 268 pages

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1948. Young Jonathan Lusk’s life was perfect. Big Boston house. Swimming pool. Summers on the Cape. His father a Nobel Prize winning Harvard professor; his mother the beautiful only child of Boston socialites. When his parents get caught between rival Arab and Jewish faculty over the creation of the...

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

by Phil Knight

Published: 2016-04-26

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Young, search...

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Beyond Believing: An Inspiring Story to Awaken the Heart

by D.D. Marx

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 248 pages

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When Olivia gets news of her best friend Dan’s fatal car accident, her life is shattered. Consumed with grief and struggling to find any meaning or purpose to life, she trudges along with a gaping void in her heart. Finally, when her frustration reaches its peak, Olivia decides to put he...

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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

by Phaedra Patrick

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric, charming, and wise…The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart." — Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris BookshopDon’t miss this cu...