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  Secret Slave

  Anna Ruston

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  You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now. 
  Growing up in a deeply troubled family, fifteen-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. 
  Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies . . . each one stolen away from Anna at birth. 
  Her salvation arrived thirteen years too late, but despite her shattered mind and body, Anna finally managed to flee. This is her harrowing, yet uplifting, true story of survival. 
  Contains mature themes.

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  Tony Curtis: The Life and Career...

  Phaistos Publishers

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  “Shining shoes as a boy, shining on-screen as a star, shining even among the blinding bright lights of Las Vegas that became his adopted home, Tony Curtis was never less than a megawatt personality, one that always seemed lit by a childlike glow of wonderment.” 
  Start naming superstars from the enchanted Golden Age of Hollywood, and chances are that Tony Curtis shared a marquee with them—and when it comes to many of the women, he also shared a bed. Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Burt Lancaster? Yup. Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh, Natalie Wood? Yup. Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin? Yup. Debbie Reynolds, Yvonne De Carlo…well, you get the idea. 
  Curtis appeared in more than 100 movies, dozens of television series, and on countless talk, variety, and game shows, but despite a prolific career spanning six decades in the ficklest business of all, Curtis could never shake the feeling that he was on the outside looking in. He always had a beautiful woman at his side, but he had trouble committing to one. He mingled with the movers and shakers in the realms of entertainment and politics, but when his phone inevitably stopped ringing, he fell hard into drug and alcohol abuse. He fathered six children, but when his end neared, he bequeathed them nothing. 
  This book profiles how Curtis climbed from the darkest depths of poverty, reached Hollywood’s dizzying heights of fame and fortune, and clung to his pedestal through five marriages, drug, alcohol, and sex addiction, and the tragic death of a son.

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  Yeah No Not Happening - How I...

  Karen Karbo

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  The author of the acclaimed, bestselling In Praise of Difficult Women delivers a hilarious feminist manifesto that encourages us to reject ""self-improvement"" and instead learn to appreciate and flaunt our complex, and flawed, human selves. 
  Why are we so obsessed with being our so-called best selves? Because our modern culture force feeds women lies designed to heighten their insecurities: ""You can do it all—crush it at work, at home, in the bedroom, at PTA and at Pilates—and because you can, you should. We can show you how!""  
  Karen Karbo has had enough. She’s taking a stand against the cultural and societal pressures, marketing, and media influences that push us to spend endless time, energy and money trying to ""fix"" ourselves—a race that has no finish line and only further increases our send of self-dissatisfaction and loathing. ""Yeah, no, not happening,"" is her battle cry.  
  In this wickedly smart and entertaining book, Karbo explores how ""self-improvery"" evolved from the provenance of men to women. Recast as ""consumers"" in the 1920s, women, it turned out, could be seduced into buying anything that might improve not just their lives, but their sense of self-worth. Today, we smirk at Mad Men-era ads targeting 1950s housewives—even while savvy marketers, aided and abetted by social media ""influencers,"" peddle skin care ""systems,"" skinny tea, and regimens that promise to deliver endless happiness. We’re not simply seduced into dropping precious disposable income on empty promises; the underlying message is that we can’t possibly know what’s good for us, what we want, or who we should be. Calling BS, Karbo blows the lid off of this age-old trend and asks women to start embracing their awesomely imperfect selves. 
  There is no one more dangerous than a woman who doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her. Yeah, No, Not Happening is a call to arms to build a posse of dangerous women who swear off self-improvement and its peddlers. A welcome corrective to our inner-critic, Karbo’s manifesto will help women restore their sanity and reclaim their self-worth.

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  Use the Power You Have - A Brown...

  Pramila Jayapal

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  In November 2016, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Indian American woman to serve in that role. Two years later, the “fast-rising Democratic star and determined critic of President Donald Trump,” according to Politico’s Playbook 2017 “Power List,” won reelection with more votes than any other member of the House. Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, proved her progressive bonafides when she introduced the most comprehensive Medicare-for-All bill to Congress in February.
  
  Behind the story of Jayapal’s rise to political prominence lie over two decades of devoted advocacy on behalf of immigrants and progressive causes—and years of learning how to turn activism into public policy that serves all Americans. Use the Power You Have is Jayapal’s account of the path from sixteen-year-old Indian immigrant to grassroots activist, state senator, and now progressive powerhouse in Washington, DC.
  
  Written with passion and insight, Use the Power You Have offers a wealth of ideas and inspiration for a new generation of engaged citizens interested in fighting back and making change, whether in Washington or in their own communities.

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  En el pueblo hay una casa...

  Vladimir Rivera Órdenes

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  Surcos del territorio es una colección de crónicas literarias que narran la experiencia de crecer en algún pueblo o ciudad de la provincia.
  Cada libro es una exploración por los intersticios de la infancia y, al mismo tiempo, una radiografía sentimental, histórica y política de los lugares respectivos, lejana a los edulcorados constructos turísticos o gubernamentales.
  
  En este libro el autor —nacido en enero de 1973— reconstruye el pulso y los claroscuros de Parral durante la dictadura, los ochenta y los noventa cuando sucedieron las primeras investigaciones sobre los horrores de Colonia Dignidad —enclave cercano al pueblo— y, al mismo tiempo, la búsqueda judicial de cuerpos de detenidos desaparecidos en la zona: entre ellos su padre, líder territorial de lazona durante la Unidad Popular y fundador de una toma de terrenos hoy vigente como una población cercana a la línea del tren. El relato está construido desde un prisma íntimo, sentimental, emotivo, pero también crítico con el devenir político de la transición y las esperanzas truncadas de una sociedad más comunitaria.
  
  "No hubo nadie en ese tiempo que le dijera a él que eso no era cierto. Que ni su padre era terrorista ni que en su sangre estaba el mal. Por esas extrañas razones que tiene la conciencia, encontró que su padre era culpable, culpable de un delito imperdonable: abandonar a sus hijos. Dejarlos a la intemperie de la selva en un pueblo perdido, pobres, ateridos, con los lobos devorando los sueños, los anhelos. A veces soñaba con ser fuerte, salir al recreo y enfrentarlos. Decirle en sus caras: 'Mi padre fue un héroe'".
  
  Vladimir Rivera Órdenes (Parral / 1973).
  Guionista, narrador y profesor. En narrativa ha publicado los libros Qué sabe Peter Holder de amor (Premio a Mejor Obra Literaria Cuentos 2013), Juegos florales y Yo soy un pájaro ahora (finalista Premio Municipal de Literatura 2019). En literatura infantil ha escrito
  los libros El gato que nos ilumina, La vida secreta de los números y Los palacios interiores (Premio Marta Brunet a Mejor Libro Infantil 2020).
  
   

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  The Story of the Amulet

  E. Nesbit

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  The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the "it" in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in The Phoenix and the Carpet.

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