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by Tara Westover
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2018 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
by Amaryllis Fox
Published Sep 2020
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by Dovey Johnson Roundtree , Katie McCabe
Published Nov 2019
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by Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsA riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.
by Amy Bloom
Published Oct 2018
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by Peggielene Bartels, Eleanor Herman
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsThe charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsAn exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
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