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* * * * Informative,
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The True Memoirs of Little K: A Novel

by Adrienne Sharp

Published: 2010-10-26

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar’s Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Pe...

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True North

by Beverly Brandt

Published: 2002-01-07

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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* * * Informative,
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True North

by Jim Harrison

Published: 2005-07-10

Paperback: 388 pages

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An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, and his own father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family of wealthy...

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True North: A Memoir

by Jill Ker Conway

Published: 1995-08-15

Paperback: 250 pages

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Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te lls...

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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

by Mark Salzman

Published: 2004-08-31

Paperback: 352 pages

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In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach th...

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True Richmond Stories

by Harry Kollatz Jr.

Published: 2007-07-31

Paperback: 160 pages

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Richmond, Virginia's beautiful capital on the James River, has seen more than its fair share of history. Although it is probably best known as the site of one of the first English settlements in America and for its role as the Confederate capital in the Civil War, the city's past has much more to offer....

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True Sisters

by Sandra Dallas

Published: 2012-04-24

Hardcover: 352 pages

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In a novel based on true events, New York Times bestselling author Sandra Dallas delivers the story of four women---seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land---who come together on a harrowing journey. In 1856, Mormon converts, encouraged by Brigham Young himself, and o...

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True Stories of the Second World War

by Paul Dowswell

Published: 2003

Paperback: 169 pages

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* * * * * Dark,
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

by Louise Murphy

Published: 2003-07-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel." They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Mag...

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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

by Louise Murphy

Published: 2003-07-29

Paperback: 297 pages

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A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and Lilac GirlsIn the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety i...