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  Why Fathers Cry at Night - A...

  Kwame Alexander

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  This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. He explores his own relationships—his difficulties as a newly wedded, 22-year-old father, and the precariousness of his early marriage working in a jazz club with his second wife. Alexander attempts to deal with the unravelling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he found in learning how to perfect her famous fried chicken dish. With an open heart, Alexander weaves together memories of his past to try and understand his greatest love: his daughters. Full of heartfelt reminisces, family recipes, love poems, and personal letters, Why Fathers Cry at Night inspires bravery and vulnerability in every reader who has experienced the reckless passion, heartbreak, failure, and joy that define the whirlwind woes and wonders of love.

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  From Liberty to Magnolia: New...

  Janice Ellis

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  New Edition  
  A Powerful, Compelling, and Inspiring True Story 
  From the perch of poverty, farm life, family, and the confining community in which Janice Ellis grew up, she found her purpose and determination to change things and make them better. It was there that she gained an initial understanding of the importance of ethics and values, justice and equality, and caring for humanity in fostering a good society. 
  Her life experiences, during some very turbulent periods in an ever-evolving America, have profoundly shaped her work and writings—providing the grist, mission, authority, and authenticity required to become one’s best self. 
  As life has had its way, she has loved and lost, given birth and reared children alone as a divorcee, weathered verbal and physical abuse, had trail-blazing successes as an executive in corporate business and municipal government, and recovered from a colossal failure as a small business owner. 
  All—while navigating American life, as a Black, as a woman, and forever fighting against allowing either of those indelible birthmarks to define or confine her. 
  As circumstances, issues, and forces—social, political, economic—occur all around her, and push against her, she has chosen to push back. She has consciously entered and continues to enter the fray. 
  May you, as you learn of her trials and triumphs, be inspired to live your best self, too. 
  A Discussion Guide is included for book clubs, classes, and group forums.

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  Mamerto Gueritz - A Country...

  David Gunn-Johnson

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  This is the story of Mamerto Gueritz, a country priest in the second half of the nineteenth century. His is a fascinating tale, with the adventures of his father and grandfather in Spain and the subsequent deeds of his children, framing the story of the man himself.
  
   
  However, Mamerto Gueritz also offers an illustration of the ways in which the Catholic Revival in the Church of England, the Oxford Movement, spread and took root in the remotest corners of the kingdom. His story tells a much wider tale of the renewal of the Church, the revival of a glorious liturgical heritage and the search for holiness which, for Gueritz and many of his peers, was the driving force behind it all.
  
   
  Mamerto’s father had been an officer in the Royal Guard of Spain but his opposition to the absolutism of Ferdinand VII meant that he and his family had to flee. The period between the time of Gueritz’ arrival as an infant refugee from Spain in 1823 and his death in 1912 may indeed be seen as the time of the emergence and flowering of what became known as the Oxford Movement. However, it was also a time of great conflict and change both in the Church and in society. Such change was not without cost and Mamerto Gueritz shared in it all, both in the battles in London and in his country parish, which proved anything but a safe haven.
  
   
  The reader with a straightforward love of history will find Mamerto’s story a significant addition to their store of knowledge. Those who read widely in Church history, particularly that of the nineteenth century, may find that what seems like familiar ground can be anything but!  The student of the Oxford Movement and the catholic heritage of the Church of England may yet find some further insight from hitherto unreported events and in Mamerto Gueritz find also an encouragement for the work of today.

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  FIFTY-TWO - Birth of a Soul Runner

  Campbell Forlong

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  Looking out across the rooftops of Hamilton City to the distant Kaimai Ranges and Maungatautari Mountain on New Year’s Day 2017, Campbell Forlong had no idea that instead of just ticking off these two running challenges from his bucket list, something bigger was about to happen in his 52nd year. After he’d completed three random marathon runs on consecutive weekends, his brother Paul phoned. “I see you’ve run three marathons in three weeks – you planning to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks?” he asked, half joking. It was all the invitation Campbell needed. What followed was an utterly life-changing adventure – running in the heat of the equator in the Republic of Congo, following wolf tracks in the snow in the Canadian Rockies, exploring the banks of the Seine to see the sun rise on the Eiffel Tower, returning home to discover unequalled beauty and peace on the backstreets of his hometown at midnight, and on many of New Zealand’s mountain trails. Along the way, during that year an equally important pursuit took place as Campbell began a journey into the meaning of love. How to love and be loved became even more important than distances and destinations – it was the birth of a soul-runner. Fifty-Two invites you to join that journey – 52 marathons in 52 weeks in Campbell’s 52nd year – and take a peek into this determined and passionate soul, inspiring you to reach for your own life goals and ambitions.

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  Alexandra Kollontai - A Life...

  Hourly History

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  As the daughter of a decorated general in the Imperial Russian army, Alexandra Kollontai was a member of the elite from birth. From that comfortable perch, she might easily have lived out her days in the drawing rooms and social circles of St. Petersburg's upper classes. Instead, she devoted her life to tearing that world apart. She became a Marxist agitator, a political writer, and one of the first women of her era to gain real political power, serving as the world's first female cabinet minister in the newly formed Soviet government after the Tsar's tottering regime finally came to an end. 
  And yet, for all her theorizing about women's liberation and the abolition of the old social order, Alexandra Kollontai's life was as full of contradiction as it was of conviction. She was a woman who abandoned her own child in the name of revolutionary ideals, and who preached radical independence while quietly making her peace with one of history's most repressive regimes. She helped build the Soviet state, then watched it consume nearly everyone she had ever known and loved. This is her life; this is her story.

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  Inside the Minds of Predators:...

  Walter Drakewood

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  Inside the Minds of Predators: FBI Insights on Serial Killers 
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