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  Mama Bear - One Black Mother’s...

  Shirley Smith

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  “Brave. Compelling. Provocative. ” —Gabrielle Union Wade, actress and New York Times bestselling author 
  In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive—using her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black maternal and infant health and pay tribute to Black women’s resilience. 
  Shirley Smith and her husband, NBA champion J. R. Smith, looked forward to the birth of their second child, Dakota, as they celebrated New Year’s Eve with family at home. After dinner, Shirley felt a sharp pain that worsened through the night. Only 21-weeks pregnant, she was in labor. Mama Bear is the story of her 141-day ordeal, from entering a hospital emergency room on New Year’s morning and giving birth to her premature newborn, to taking her daughter home for the first time the following May. 
  In telling her story, written with Zelda Lockhart, Shirley shines a spotlight on the dangers Black women face during pregnancy. Black mothers are twice as likely as their white counterparts to go into labor prematurely and lose their babies—and almost four times as likely to die giving birth. Neither socioeconomic status nor access to quality healthcare seem to matter. Tennis champion Serena Williams experienced life-threatening complications during childbirth, and Beyoncé suffered toxemia with her premature twins.  
  Shirley chronicles the emotional and physical battle she and J. R. endured to save their daughter, and her continual struggles to support her family while nurturing herself. Like many Black women, Shirley was raised to believe that pain is a sign of weakness. The one who kept it together for everybody, she had always put herself second. She parallels this difficult journey to her childhood growing up with an addict mother, and having to raise herself and her brother from a very young age.  
  A chronicle of pain, loss, and infidelity, Mama Bear is ultimately a story of love—a celebration of community, family, faith, healing, the maternal bond, and one woman’s indomitable spirit.  
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Set Me Free - The Good News of...

  Lecrae Moore

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  Read by the author. 
  Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the way you vote, or the way you pray, you don't fit the mold. And yet you find yourself still trying to prove yourself to others. In Set Me Free, New York Times bestselling author Lecrae invites you on a poetic and artistic exploration of how you can persevere against the lies of unworthiness to experience the freedom given to you in Jesus. 
  Under the weight of America's racial history, church traditions, and cultural pressures, Lecrae found himself trapped in the belief that he had to earn his freedom or prove his right to be on the stage, or even in the pews of a church. As he learns to shed these old ways of thinking, Lecrae beckons you to step out of the beliefs that are holding you captive and to reconstruct your faith. 
  Within this inspirational collection of poetry and essays, you will experience:Raw, lyrical expressions of what it means to be unfree in AmericaConfessional essays explaining Lecrae's personal journey to claim his freedom and his faithEmpowering words to help heal your wounded soulA testimony of God's unfailing love and eternal acceptance 
    
  This book is perfect for:Followers of Jesus who feel disillusioned or who are deconstructing from their church experienceSpiritual seekers who feel on the outside of modern religious institutionsFans of Lecrae's music 
    
  Provocative, vulnerable, convicting, and inspiring, Set Me Free is a poetry collection for our time.

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  Anna May Wong - An Intimate...

  Shirley Jennifer Lim

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  A moving biography of Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American Hollywood star, and her hardships, triumphs, successes, and scandals, by the leading Anna May Wong expert  
    
  Shirley Jennifer Lim brings us a story of tenacity and determination in this lush biography, sure to become the essential account of Anna May Wong's life and legacy.  
    
  Anna May Wong shows the real woman behind the actress's facade and will inspire a new generation of writers, image creators, fashionistas, and television and film enthusiasts in the 21st century.  
    
  Wong's dazzling talent is not in question, yet what often goes unsaid was her feat of perseverance in the face of cinematic and theatrical rejection as well as daunting societal barriers such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and racialized housing segregation.  
    
  Her legacy spans through her 50-plus films, pathbreaking television series, sumptuous fashion looks, Broadway and vaudeville shows, iconic photographs, groundbreaking journalism, and global fame, making her one of the only Asian American actors to become a household name.  
    
  Wong's lack of obedience to a heteronormative lifestyle in conjunction with her wild sexual encounters, debauched night life, and friendships with cultural figures such as Walter Benjamin, Marlene Dietrich, Ramón Novarro, Vincent Price, Rosa Rolanda Covarubbias, Philip Ahn, Hedda Hopper, Carl Van Vechten, Evelyn Waugh, Blanche Knopf, and Paul Robeson, shed light on what it meant to be a trailblazing actress almost a century ago.  
    
  Anna May Wong uses the actress's own personal correspondences and creative endeavors such as her writings published in the New York Herald Tribune and her self-made film about China (broadcast on ABC) to tell the story of the "World's Most Beautiful Chinese" American woman, who rose past the boundaries of the silent and studio eras of white Hollywood. 

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  Hungry to Be Happy - How I Lost...

  Harry Averill

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  As a fourteen-year-old psych ward patient, Harry realised he had a choice: let anorexia keep ruining his life, or fight back against everything his mind told him was true. 
  Now twenty-two years old, Harry delicately pieces together how his mind derailed to that point, what’s happened since he made his choice, and most importantly, what it’s taught him about life and how best to live it. 
  Hungry to Be Happy is a story of survival against all odds, redemption from the depths of despair, and triumph over the most dangerous of bullies. 
  By reclaiming the space between his ears, Harry rediscovers what matters most, and through doing so, he experiences what anorexia always promised but could never deliver – happiness.

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  The Bush Beckons - An Aussie...

  Linda Watt

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  "I reckon if there's a heaven on earth  this is it. Lying under an open sky shimmering with stars  my dog and I drift into fearless sleep to the crescendo of cicadas . . . A family of cackling kookaburras and hordes of chirruping crickets call in the morning. The bush beckons us into endless rising dawns and settling dusks  out of earshot of any motor  and with only safe adventures waiting around every bend in the dirt track . . ." When a fatal car accident uncovers her boyfriend's infidelity  Linda's seventeen-year-old heart shatters  seemingly beyond repair. Even her treasured horse brings no comfort. Aimlessly  she becomes entangled with a law-breaking boss and is soon staring down the barrel of criminal charges herself. The losses keep rolling in as she wakes from surgery to be told she may never conceive a child. When a Fraud Squad Detective offers some fatherly advice  it will take all the courage she can muster to run from an abusive relationship. Unbeknown to Linda  God is also pursuing her  but she is blind to His love and deaf to His knocking. The Bush Beckons is the true story of God's relentless  redeeming love-not just for Linda  but for anyone who struggles to find hope or to believe that God could love so broken a person.

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  I Live You For Ever: Dementia in...

  Meredith Rutter Marple

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  A beautiful memoir and a fierce testimony to the sacrifices we make in the name of love." — Kirkus Reviews, "Get It" Verdict  
   
  “An intimate and moving account of Meredith Rutter Marple’s years of navigating her husband’s dementia. Marple shows us all a path on a journey many of us will take, a path of love and strength, tenderness and deep insight.” — Lily King, author of Heart the Lover, Euphoria, and more  
   
  "I Live You For Ever ... is unique in its delivery. Meredith Rutter Marple writes about her relationship with Gary as though it were happening right now, which makes their connection even more believable and compelling." — Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite, 5-star review  
   
  I Live You For Ever is a candid and penetrating memoir chronicling Meredith Rutter Marple’s nine-year journey caring for her husband, Gary, as mixed dementia reshaped the fabric of their marriage. What began as small slips—forgotten directions, mental-math errors—unfolded into a relentless progression of symptoms associated with vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Lewy body dementia.  
   
  Drawing from her personal journals, Meredith captures the intimacy of conversations and the daily negotiations of love, anger, denial, and acceptance between partners bound together by decades of shared life. With honesty and compassion, she illuminates the dual tragedy of spousal dementia: the gradual fading of the ill partner and the parallel unraveling—and resilience—of the caregiving partner.  
   
  At once heartbreaking and hopeful, this memoir is both a testament to enduring love and a call to face the “what-ifs” of aging with courage and candor.

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