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  JK Rowling: The True Story of...

  Liam Dale

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  Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby daughter, hoping to make her fortune. In truth, “fortune” is probably over-exaggerating; enough money to feed and clothe the two of them and put a decent roof over their heads was all this young mother asked, but it was proving to be incredibly difficult. 
   
  Yet this is no fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson, it’s the true story of one of the most successful women the world has ever known, who in 1990 came up with the idea for a book about an orphaned boy wizard. The boy’s name was Harry Potter, the young woman, JK Rowling, and the rest is history!

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  Elizabeth Taylor - The Last Star

  Kitty Kelley

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  Before she became a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already a star, appearing in such films as Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. One of the few child actors to transition to a successful film career as an adult, Taylor starred in such classics as Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and Who'             s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In addition to receiving two Academy Awards, Taylor led a tumultuous personal life that kept her in the headlines for decades. Her many marriages, most notably twice to Richard Burton, received tabloid attention and made her the fodder for countless magazine articles the public couldn'             t get enough of. Here is the unauthorized biography of one of America's brightest—             and most flamboyantly glamorous—             stars. Biographer Kitty Kelley tells all—             even the parts Liz would rather have kept secret—             in this uncensored account of a Hollywood'             s icon.

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  Whicker’s War

  Alan Whicker, John Nichol

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  Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of British media icons. 
  Yet throughout his forty years in TV he was steadfast in his belief that his programmes should not be about himself but about those people he encountered. Until this year when he was persuaded, as part of the 60th anniversary of the invasion of Italy, to tell his remarkable war experiences in two fabulously reviewed hour-long television pieces. 
  This book uses these programmes as the starting point to tell the story of Alan Whicker's remarkable war. 
  Alan Whicker joined the Army Film and Photo Unit as an 18-year-old army officer, following the Allied advance through Italy, from Sicily to Venice. He filmed the troops on the front line, met Montgomery, and other military luminaries, filmed the battered body of Mussolini after his execution and accepted the surrender of the SS in Milan. This is remarkable account of the Italian campaign of 1943 and 1944 as he retraces of his steps over sixty years later. Beautifully written, poignant with humour and pathos this is a masterful book by one of the 20th centuries greatest TV journalists. 
  In his autobiography, Whicker takes us on a personal journey through the Italian campaign, his memoirs serving as a poignant reminder of the realities of war. His account is considered one of the best, a testament to his status as a top journalist. 
  For fans of Jonathan Dimbleby (The Battle of the Atlantic), and Mike Wood (A Soldier's Story).

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  Poetry words

  LADONNA J HITE

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  POETRY WORDSMy feelings are GRATITUDE ATTITUDE! 
  This life journey must begin!  
  Before I was born you were waiting for me! Words, Dedication, and Chambers to be heard! 
  #GratitudeAttitude

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  African American Literature...

  Gene Andrew Jarrett

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  Fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, and others that isn’t focused on race—with original introductions by leading scholars.   It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are not preoccupied with race have long been invisible—unpublished, out of print, absent from libraries, rarely discussed among scholars, and omitted from anthologies.   However, some of our most celebrated African American authors—from Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—have resisted this canonical rule, even at the cost of critical dismissal and commercial failure. African American Literature Beyond Race revives this remarkable literary corpus, presenting sixteen short stories, novelettes, and excerpts of novels—from the postbellum nineteenth century to the late twentieth century—that demonstrate this act of literary defiance. Each selection is paired with an original introduction by one of today’s leading scholars of African American literature.   By casting African Americans in minor roles and marking the protagonists as racially white, neutral, or ambiguous, these works of fiction explore the thematic complexities of human identity, relations, and culture. At the same time, they force us to confront the basic question, “What is African American literature?”  Includes fiction by: James Baldwin • Octavia E. Butler • Samuel R. Delany • Paul Laurence Dunbar • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper • Chester B. Himes • Zora Neale Hurston • Nella Larsen • Toni Morrison • Ann Petry • Wallace Thurman • Jean Toomer • Frank J. Webb • Richard Wright • and Frank Yerby  Critical Introductions by: Hazel V. Carby • John Charles • Gerald Early • Hazel Arnett Ervin • Matthew Guterl • Mae G. Henderson • George B. Hutchinson • Gene Jarrett • Carla L. Peterson • Amritjit Singh • Werner Sollors • and Jeffrey Allen Tucker   “[The] essays are succinct, interesting, [and] informative.” —Journal of African American Studies

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  Brown White Black - An American...

  Nishta J. Mehra

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  Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance.Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing on her family's daily struggle to make space for themselves amid racial intolerance and stereotypes personalizes some of America's most fraught issues.Mehra writes candidly about her efforts to protect and shelter her child from racial slurs on the playground and from intrusive questions by strangers while educating Shiv on the realities and dangers of being black in America. In other essays, she discusses her childhood living in the racially polarized city of Memphis; coming out as queer; being an adoptive mother who is brown; and what it's like to be constantly confronted by people's confusion, concern, and expectations about her child and her family. Above all, Mehra argues passionately for a more nuanced and compassionate understanding of identity and family.Both poignant and challenging, Brown White Black is a remarkable portrait of a loving family on the front lines of some of the most highly charged conversations in our culture.

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