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  • After 9/11

    One Girl's Journey Through Darkness to a New Beginning

    “You are a herald for your generation....Thank you for using your voice to help us make sense of that dark day, and forge a new beginning.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a letter to Helaina HovitzHelaina Hovitz was twelve years old and in middle school just blocks away when the World Trade Center was attacked. Her memoir encapsulates the journey of a girl growing up with PTSD after living through the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • When Animals Rescue

    Amazing True Stories about Heroic and Helpful Creatures

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  • Do Not Disclose

    A Memoir Of Family Secrets Lost and Found

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    A 2021 Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Book of the YearLeora, a juvenile court judge, wife, mother, and daughter, is caught in the routine of work, taking care of her family and aging parents. But she’s also a second-generation Holocaust survivor. It’s an identity she didn’t understand was hers until she accidentally discovered a secret file of handwritten notes addressed to her father. A further ... Read more

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  • All My Brother’s Secrets: A powerful true story of love, loss and brutality

    The shocking true story of terrible abuse and the remarkable boy who captured the heart of the nation when he testified in court to find justice for his brother’s horrific death.Terry O’Neill was just ten years old when he stood up in court to testify against his brutal foster parents, accused of the manslaughter of his twelve-year-old brother, Dennis.Terry and his brother had been taken into care ... Read more

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  • All That Glitters

    Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and the Rivalry Inside America's Richest Media Empire

    by Thomas Maier ...
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  • Fixing the Fates

    An Adoptee's Story of Truth and Lies

    by Diane Dewey ...
    The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from ... Read more

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  • The Parrot's Perch

    A Memoir

    by Karen Keilt ...
    The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but ... Read more

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  • Saturday's Child

    A Daughter's Memoir

    by Deborah Burns ...
    “Devilishly sharp… a masterful balance of psychological excavation and sumptuous description.”—Kirkus ReviewsAn only child, Deborah Burns grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of her beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, Dorothy—a red-haired beauty who looked like Rita Hayworth and skirted norms with a style and flair that made her the darling of men and women alike. Married to ... Read more

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  • The Trigger

    Narratives of the American Shooter

    Six moving profiles reveal the complex realities behind gun violence in the United States. These are the stories of the shooters.In South Carolina, a young man embarks on a life of crime that culminates in a drug-related shooting and decades in prison; in Chicago, an off-duty police officer engages in a shootout with a murderous gunman, saving a fellow patrolman; in rural Tennessee, a troubled ... Read more

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  •  Drinking from the Trough

    A Veterinarian's Memoir

    Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, who had settled in northern Colorado, told her during his annual visits. But thanks to him, she ended up ... Read more

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