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  How i lived my life lived me

  TIM COONEY, ELIZABETH RACHE

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  tim cooney's life reads more like an adventure story than a biography. 
  how he went from homeless to being nominated for an oscar is definitely not the usual path. 
  along the way there were 8 more nominations for various awards, elephants and tigers, hollywood, rock and roll royalty, real royalty, and a very unusual cast of characters in this mans life story

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  Emily Brontë

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Emily Brontë was one of the most remarkable and enigmatic figures in English literature. Though her literary career was brief and her published work limited, she created a novel that would secure her place among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Her imagination, originality, and emotional intensity produced a work unlike anything else of its time. 
   
  Born in Yorkshire in 1818, Emily was a member of the extraordinary Brontë family, which also included her sisters Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë. Living much of her life in relative isolation on the Yorkshire moors, she developed a rich inner world that found expression in both poetry and fiction. Her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, remains one of the most celebrated novels in English literature. Initially misunderstood by many contemporary critics, it later came to be recognized as a work of extraordinary power, exploring themes of love, obsession, revenge, passion, and human nature with rare intensity. 
   
  This biography traces Emily Brontë's life from the quiet parsonage at Haworth to her lasting place in literary history. Drawing upon letters, family records, memoirs, and historical accounts, it explores the life, creativity, and enduring legacy of a writer whose single novel transformed English literature. More than 175 years after its publication, Wuthering Heights continues to captivate readers around the world.

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  Children of Las Vegas - True...

  Timothy O'Grady

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  Over forty million people a year travel to Las Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no moral debits.
  Award-winning writer Timothy O'Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers – young people who had borne witness to this strange city all their lives. One had her student loans and credit card limits stolen by her father. Another fled a sequence of exploiters until she found herself living in the storm drains under the casinos. There was the boy whose father entered him into a drinking contest when he was eight, the casino owner's son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each told their own tale.
  In Children of Las Vegas, O'Grady renews his partnership with photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pyke's portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the city's glittering façade to reveal the darker reality that lies beneath.

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  Exact Replica of a Figment of My...

  Elizabeth McCracken

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  "This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child.  This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind of loss? Of course you don't -- but you go on. And if you have ever experienced loss or love someone who has, the company of this remarkable book will help you go on.  With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCracken considers the nature of love and grief. She opens her heart and leaves all of ours the richer for it.

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  For a Greater Good: The Tom...

  Thomas Swann Hernandez

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  I wrote this book because you and I both need some inspiration from time to time in a tough world. I came out of the closet in 1992 as a gay Marine Corps veteran and civilian worker with a secret clearance for the Department of the Navy. I was assaulted and faced discrimination and retaliation from Navy officials. I was living with advanced AIDS. I suffered and persevered while the ACLU represented me in litigation against the Navy. I am the last federal employee to have his access to classified information challenged by the government based on being a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Our historic successful ACLU litigation against the Navy prompted the Navy Secretary to add sexual orientation protection to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policy for all civilian employees. The Navy added this protection more than four years before the other branches of the military. Now DEI and the EEOC are being shut down, and we seem to be going backwards. My story will shed light on how difficult work was before DEI and why these programs are so vital for our nation. The fact that the ACLU and I accomplished this is inspiring. It means you can persevere through adversity and your hopes can be fulfilled. First, have faith in a higher power, and second, believe in the person you see when you stand in front of a mirror. You must never give up hope or give in to discrimination.

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  Children of Gay Couples -...

  Kolia Hiffler-Wittkowsky

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  For the first time, a collection of testimonials gives voice to the children of lesbian couples. Sixteen of them answer the questions many people ask: does living without a father pose a problem? Do children of gay couples necessarily become gay or lesbian? Do their families share the same values as others?
  The interviewees were aged between eleven and thirty-one. They were conceived either by insemination or during previous relationships. Today, they are students, police officers or producers. They have agreed to confide in us their joys, their worries, their troubles, their hopes and the way “others” look at them.

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