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  Everything She Touched - The...

  Marilyn Chase

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  This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist. 
   
   
   
  Born in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa grew from a farmer's daughter to a celebrated sculptor. She survived adolescence in the World War II Japanese-American internment camps and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. Asawa then went on to develop her signature hanging-wire sculptures, create iconic urban installations, revolutionize arts education in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, fight through lupus, and defy convention to nurture a multiracial family. 
   
   
   
  ● Documents Asawa's transformative touch—most notably by turning wire—the material of the internment camp fences—into sculptures 
   
   
   
  ● Author Marilyn Chase mined Asawa's letters, diaries, sketches, and photos and conducted interviews with those who knew her to tell this inspiring story.

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  Revalion Victory - My story My...

  David A. Waters

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Revalion Victory, David A. Waters invites readers into the defining moments of his life — from humble beginnings in the Adirondacks to decades of perseverance in business, family, and faith. Each chapter reveals lessons learned through struggle, resilience, and the quiet strength that comes from believing there’s always a greater purpose ahead. 
   
  This isn’t just a story — it’s a mission. A call to rediscover hope, rebuild communities, and reignite the human spirit. David’s journey reminds us that victory isn’t about where we start, but how we choose to rise, love, and lead others toward something better. 
   
  “The fire that faith, love, and unity can ignite.”

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  Boy Refugee - A Memoir from a...

  MD Azimuddin

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  Boy Refugee: A Memoir from a Long-Forgotten War is the story of a young refugee boy in the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The story chronicles his escape from war-ravaged Bangladesh to the relative safety of a barbed-wired internment camp in the foothills of the Himalayas, his day-to-day life as a civilian prisoner of war, and his thousand-mile, two-year-long journey back to Pakistan.

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  The Big Day - Saying "I Do" Only...

  Lisa Cheek

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  For fans of Sloane Crosley, a sharp, funny memoir from the acclaimed author of Sit, Cinderella, Sit about love, commitment, and whether she’s ready for marriage right before turning fifty. 
   
  For years, Lisa Cheek has believed long-term commitment isn’t in her genes. Her romantic history has followed a familiar pattern: date a lot and widely, but never settle down. When anyone has wanted to marry her, she’s run away. So even she is surprised when, at forty-nine, she finally says “yes” to a proposal and commits fully to her boyfriend, Big Johnson. But when she finds out on their wedding day, after the vows, that they aren’t actually married, she hesitates. Should she take this as a sign to run while she still can? 
   
  In The Big Day, Lisa Cheek invites us inside one unforgettable wedding day, with its attending hilarity, chaos, and unexpected turns. As everything begins to unravel she looks back on a lifetime of relationships—her own and those of her family and friends—searching for patterns, meanings and the truth about what makes love last. 
   
  Witty, unflinching and deeply relatable, The Big Day is a memoir about late-in-life love, marriage, and the complicated question so many people face: When it really matters, do you stay or do you go?

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  Late Bloomer - Finding My...

  Melissa Giberson

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  Melissa Giberson is a middle-aged wife and mother, solidly planted in the life she’s always wanted. She longs for something more but can’t quite put her finger on it until she finds herself mesmerized by the sight of a naked woman and asks herself for the first time: Am I gay? 
  This revelation sends Melissa on a head-spinning journey of self-discovery, challenging everything she thinks she knows about herself and forcing her to decide how much she’s willing to risk for authenticity.

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  Cacophony of Bone - The Circle...

  Kerri ní Dochartaigh

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  Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived and their secluded abode became a place of enforced isolation. What was meant to be the beginning of an enriching new chapter was instead marked by uncertainty and fear. The seasons still passed, the swallows returned, the rhythms of the natural world went on, but in many ways 2020 was unlike any year we had seen before. And for Kerri there would be one more change: a baby, longed for but utterly, beautifully unexpected. 
   
   
   
  Intensely lyrical, fragmentary in subject and form, Cacophony of Bone is an ode to a year, a place, and a love that transformed a life. When the pandemic came, time seemed to shapeshift; in Kerri’s elegant prose, we can trace its quickening, its slowing. She maps the circle of a year—a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life—from one winter to the next, telling of a changed life in a changed world, as well as all that stays the same. All that keeps on living and breathing, nesting and dying. This is a book for the listener who wants to slow down, guided by a voice that is utterly singular, "rich and strange," (Robert Macfarlane). A book about home—the deepening of family, the connections that sustain us.

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