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  Shirley Chisholm in Her Own...

  Zinga A. Fraser

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  LOOKING BEYOND HER POLITICAL SYMBOLISM TO CELEBRATE NOT ONLY WHO SHIRLEY CHISHOLM WAS BUT WHO SHE IS—A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER WITH MUCH TO TEACH US TODAY 
   
  In the midst of her groundbreaking twenty-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, “Everyone—with the exception of the black woman herself—has been interpreting the black woman.” Edited and introduced by Zinga A. Fraser, Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words gives readers a rare opportunity to engage with the congresswoman’s powerful ideas in her own voice. 
   
  Many Americans are familiar with Chisholm’s importance as the first Black woman in Congress and the first woman and African American to run for president with either major party. This long-overdue treatment of her work establishes Chisholm as an unparalleled public intellectual, powerful orator, and Black feminist both in her time and now. It introduces a new generation to one of the most impactful proponents of democracy in America. 
   
  “A timely, detailed, and inspiring book that helps maintain the intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm. The book reveals new dimensions of the congresswoman’s politics, activism, and spirit.”—Regina King, Academy Award–winning actor, and producer and star of Shirley

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  The Rice Tree Chronicles

  Earle S Hotta

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  A friend once asked the author how many countries I had visited and what was on my bucket list, and his reply was that it wasn't filled with things or places, but with people like "The Walnut Man" or "The Albeeno Aborigine" and the Ladyboy in "Bangkok Confidential" that he had met along the way and the stories that they shared about themselves. If anything, a little bit of luck, patience, and an ear for listening have made all the difference in seeing the world through a different set of lenses.
  
  
  The richness of travel is in each footstep taken like walking el Camino de Santiago in Spain, where each day is a new adventure along an 800-kilometer trail filled with stories of personal challenge, hardships overcome, immense satisfaction, and a bookmark in the lives of people from all corners of the world.
  
  
  Each story, each memoir is merely a point in time in someone's life and the reward was having it handed to you as a gift.

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  You Thought You Knew

  Kevin Federline

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  Kevin Federline: dancer, father, accidental icon. His star rose electrifying stages alongside Pink and Michael Jackson, but it was his turbulent marriage to pop superstar Britney Spears that made him a household name, and thrust him into a relentless 25-year media storm, reduced to a caricature by a world that barely knew him. But behind the tabloid headlines was a devoted father fighting for his children, his sanity, and his identity. From the heights of global stardom to the pain of public fallout, this memoir peels back the layers of fame, fortune and fatherhood to reveal the man behind the mythology. A man shaped not by spectacle or spotlight, but love, resilience, and the steadfast resolve to start over. What you thought you knew was only half the story. 

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  Life Is So Strange: Missing...

  Dale Bozzio

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. • One of music's most recognizable and influential artists, Missing Person's Dale Bozzio, shares her most intimate and inspirational moments in this superb autobiography! 
   
  • Bozzio kisses and tells ALL, weaving stories from throughout her entire life including her childhood, her time as a Playboy bunny, her fateful introduction to Frank Zappa, her meteoric rise with Missing Persons, her love affair and collaborations with Prince, and so much more!

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  There's a Ghost in My Room -...

  Sanjoy K. Roy

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  'Writes about hauntings with humour, curiosity and lightness - Roy turns the supernatural into something surprisingly warm and deeply human.'- Scroll.in 
  'A delightful oddity - part memoir, part ghost story, entirely charming. Roy's wit and warmth make even the spectral feel strangely comforting.' - Hindustan Times 
  'Sanjoy K. Roy approaches the inexplicable with the eye of a producer and the heart of a storyteller - the result is a book that is as entertaining as it is unexpectedly moving.' - Indian Express 
   
  The first spirit Sanjoy Roy encountered was one that haunted his ancestral house in Calcutta; he was five then. A few years later, the otherworldly made its presence felt again in his parents' sprawling bungalow in Lutyens' Delhi. Over the decades that followed, he and his family and friends have come across a variety of apparitions, spectres and phantoms in diverse locations both in India and abroad. Some of these beings are benign or at most mischievous, but others--lost, disturbed souls--are angrier and have to be placated. 
  For Sanjoy, his ability to sense and interact with the supernatural is not something remarkable, but part of his everyday reality. As he sees it, there is perhaps a dimension parallel to ours, one that is teeming with spirits and souls. There's a Ghost in My Room is a fascinating travelogue through that mysterious world.  
  Rich in period detail, humour and adventure, this unusual memoir makes for a compelling read and is sure to enthrall both the haunted-world sceptic and those who believe.

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  Independence Day - What I...

  Steve Lopez

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  "Steve Lopez is insightful, ingenious, and often hilarious as he navigates one of life's biggest questions." --Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Hours 
  Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application. 
  Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person’s time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction. 
  In Independence Day, Lopez talks to those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme--people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94--those who have happily retired and reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work, and those who would like to retire but can't because of financial constraints. He also turns to professionals on the matter, like two aging scientists, a geriatric specialist, and a psychiatrist, to understand the research-based reasons to retire. 
  With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.

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