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  Backpack Jacket Surfboard - My...

  Graham Broyd

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  Backpack, Jacket, Surfboard is an adventure memoir, a time capsule, and an unfiltered look at the joys, risks, and revelations of a cross-country road trip—then and now.

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  Becoming Little Shell - A...

  Chris La Tray

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  Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother's consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage. 
   
   
   
  When La Tray attended his grandfather's funeral as a young man, he finally found himself surrounded by relatives who obviously were Indigenous. "Who were they?" he wondered, and "Why was I never allowed to know them?" Combining diligent research and compelling conversations with authors, activists, elders, and historians, La Tray embarks on a journey into his family's past, discovering along the way a larger story of the complicated history of Indigenous communities—as well as the devastating effects of colonialism that continue to ripple through surviving generations. And as he comes to embrace his full identity, he eventually seeks enrollment with the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, joining their 158-year-long struggle for federal recognition. 
   
   
   
  Both personal and historical, Becoming Little Shell is a testament to the power of storytelling, to family and legacy, and to finding home. Infused with candor, heart, wisdom, and an abiding love for a place and a people, Chris La Tray's remarkable journey is both revelatory and redemptive.

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  Call Me Phaedra: - The Life and...

  Lise Pearlman

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  Fay Stender was a giant among movement lawyers from the McCarthy Era to the 1970s intent on forcing society to change. Friends could easily picture her as the heroine of a grand opera. A child prodigy, she abandoned the concert piano to become a zealous advocate for society's most scorned and vilified criminal defendants: from the Rosenberg espionage case during the Cold War to militant black clients, Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton, and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson, to prisoners in maximum security. Stender achieved amazing legal successes in criminal defense and prison reform before she ultimately refocused with similar zeal on feminist and lesbian rights. Set against a backdrop of sit-ins, protest marches, riots, police brutality, assassinations, death penalty trials, and bitter splits among Leftists, this book makes for a compelling biography. Yet it delivers on a broader goal, as well- an overview of the turbulent era in which Fay Stender operated under the watchful eye of the FBI and state officials. We not only relive Stender's story, but that of a small cadre of committed Bay Area activists who played remarkable roles during the McCarthy Era, Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, Vietnam War protests, and the riots of Black Power.

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  Writers As The Protagonists –...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nathaniel...

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  The short story in Literature is a few pages of beginning, middle and end peopled by characters who quickly draw themselves into its arc from the minds of their authors.   
   
  How these authors, including Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M R James and Violet Hunt imagine their characters journeys is, of course, illuminating, thought-provoking and classic literature. 
   
  1 - Stories with The Writer as Protagonist - An Introduction 
  2 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  3 - The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 
  5 - The Art of BookMaking by Washington Irving 
  6 - The Fiddler by Herman Melville 
  7 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  8 - Count Magnus by M R James 
  9 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton 
  10 - The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing 
  11 - Room For One by Frederick Cowles 
  12 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster 
  13 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet 
  14 - Truth is Not Sober by Winifred Holtby 
  15 - The Plutonian Fire by O Henry 
  16 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope 
  17 - The Memoir by Violet Hunt 
  18 - Warning Whispers by A M Burrage

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  Pioneers of Singapore - Builders...

  Lee Chin Lim, Soon Onn Chan

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  We always hear the names Raffles or Farquhar whenever we discuss Singapore’s early history. But what of the many other pioneers who were just as important? What are their stories? 
   
  Accompanied by lively, charming illustrations, Pioneers of Singapore brings you the accounts of thirty-five key figures in Singapore’s colonial history. Some of them include: 
   
  - Who broke up one of the biggest communal riots in Singapore? 
  - Who founded the first hospital in Singapore that was built entirely without help from the government? 
  - Who produced the first comprehensive map of Singapore and designed most of its early buildings? 
   
  Read on as our forefathers come to life with the help of comic artist Alan Bay (Once Upon a Singapore… Traders)’s beautiful artwork, as the 2004 bestseller returns in an all-new coloured edition!

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  True Crime Case Histories -...

  Jason Neal

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  36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Deception 
  Three Book Collection: Volumes 13, 14, and 15 of the True Crime Case Histories Series 
  ***This series can be listened to in any order *** 
  This compilation of 36 stories across three True Crime books contains deeply disturbing content. Unlike typical news reports or TV shows that often sanitize the details of heinous acts, these accounts present an unflinching look at the darkest corners of human behavior. 
  In this collection, you'll find 36 True Crime stories from the last several decades. Many of which you may never have heard of. 
  A sampling of the stories includes: 
  The Creepy Uncle - When a schoolgirl vanishes after being seen arguing with her obsessive uncle, a hidden duffel bag and suspicious text messages help detectives unravel the chilling truth behind her disappearance. 
  Folly Beach - When teenage girls walking the windswept sands of a sleepy beach town begin to disappear without a trace, the quest to uncover a relentless predator reveals a fetish-fueled monster terrorizing the shores. 
  The Leaf Killer - After a single mother, her friend, and her two young children disappear from her home, police uncover an eccentric suspect with a strange obsession with leaves. 
  Web of Lies - When an all-American achiever's parents mysteriously disappear, investigators peel back layers of lies to reveal a disturbing truth behind the family's picture-perfect facade. 
  The Suitcase Killer - When a fisherman discovers a gruesome package floating in Chesapeake Bay, investigators are plunged into a twisted tale of love, betrayal, and murder. As they unravel the mystery behind a dismembered body, they expose the dark secrets of a seemingly perfect suburban family. 
  Plus, several more disturbing true crime stories! Each story in this true crime collection is suspenseful and engrossing, leaving me yearning for the next one.

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