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The Piano Player of Budapest - A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music by De Bastion, Roxanne
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May 10, 2024
The Piano Player of Budapest - A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music

 
Nearly departed - adventures in loss, cancer, and other inconveniences - a memoir by Pfeffer, Gila, author.
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May 10, 2024
Nearly departed - adventures in loss, cancer, and other inconveniences - a memoir

"In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Gila Pfeffer recounts losing both parents to cancer and the choices she made to avoid the same early demise"--

 
More, Please - On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough by Specter, Emma
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May 10, 2024
More, Please - On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough

 
Mango - A Global History by Kirker, Constance L./ Newman, Mary
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May 10, 2024
Mango - A Global History

 
Reap the whirlwind - violence, race, justice, and the true story of Sagon Penn by Houlahan, Peter, 1961- author.
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May 10, 2024
Reap the whirlwind - violence, race, justice, and the true story of Sagon Penn

"March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of Southeastern San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck's driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer's patrol car. The incident stunned the city. What followed would change it forever. Penn was an idealist who believed in the power of Buddhist chants to bring about the oneness of humanity. The two poli

 
Out of the Sierra - a story of Raraamuri resistance by Blanco, Victoria, author.
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May 10, 2024
Out of the Sierra - a story of Raraamuri resistance

"A displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The Raraamuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language and cultural traditions in the face of colonization, they have weathered numerous hardships-climate disaster, poverty, cultural erasure-that have only worsened during the twenty-first century. Based on more than a decade of o

 
The Intimate Way of Zen - Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey by Ford, James Ishmael
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May 10, 2024
The Intimate Way of Zen - Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey

 
Happy apocalypse - a history of technological risk by Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste, author.
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May 10, 2024
Happy apocalypse - a history of technological risk

"In Happy Apocalypse, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz - co-author of the highly successful The Shock of the Anthropocene - shows how debates on risk and profit in the Industrial Revolution set the foundations of our own precarious times"--

 
Ground Control - An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration by Mandel, Savannah
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May 10, 2024
Ground Control - An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

 
The early days of ESPN - 300 daydreams and nightmares by Fox, Peter, 1942- author.
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May 10, 2024
The early days of ESPN - 300 daydreams and nightmares

"The story of the early days at ESPN, told by one of its founders, and how a conversation over a couple of martinis in 1978 led to the creation of a broadcast juggernaut"--

 
Don't Look Left - A Diary of Genocide by Abu Saif, Atef
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May 10, 2024
Don't Look Left - A Diary of Genocide

 
Dirty Real - Exile on Hollywood and Vine With the Gin Mill Cowboys by Stanfield, Peter
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May 10, 2024
Dirty Real - Exile on Hollywood and Vine With the Gin Mill Cowboys

 
Digitally Invisible - How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass by Lee, Nicol
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May 10, 2024
Digitally Invisible - How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

 
Die Hot With a Vengeance - Essays on Vanity by Yong, Sable
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May 10, 2024
Die Hot With a Vengeance - Essays on Vanity

 
Devil's Contract - The History of the Faustian Bargain by Simon, Ed
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May 10, 2024
Devil's Contract - The History of the Faustian Bargain

 
Carrie Carolyn Coco - My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession With the Unthinkable by Gerard, Sarah
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May 10, 2024
Carrie Carolyn Coco - My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession With the Unthinkable

 
Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education- Socioculturally Sustaining Practices by Harkins Monaco, Elizabeth A.
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May 10, 2024
Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education- Socioculturally Sustaining Practices

This book focuses on preparing culturally competent educators who use culturally sustaining practices and culturally relevant curricula and instruction to reach and teach all students with disabilities including those with multiple social identities through a varied multi-cultural lens.

 
Breaking the Curse - A Memoir About Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft by Difrancesco, Alex
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May 10, 2024
Breaking the Curse - A Memoir About Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft

 
Beckett's Children - A Literary Memoir by Coffey, Michael
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May 10, 2024
Beckett's Children - A Literary Memoir

 
All the Rage - Stories from the Frontline of Beauty- a History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power- 1860-1960 by Nicholson, Virginia
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May 10, 2024
All the Rage - Stories from the Frontline of Beauty- a History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power- 1860-1960

 

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