An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiti ...Show more
Epilogue: A Memoir by Will Boast
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When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing togethe ...Show more
Wish You Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains by Jenny Bowen
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Wish You Happy Forever chronicles Half the Sky founder Jenny Bowen's personal and professional journey to transform Chinese orphanages--and the lives of the neglected girls who live in them--from a state of quiet despair to one of vibrant promise.After reading an article about the thousands of baby girl ...Show more
Without You, There Is No Us: My Secret Life Teaching the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
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A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, ...Show more
Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's Campaign to Transform India by Lance Price
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How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. Political parties in Britain, Australia and North Ameri ...Show more
My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
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When Kate Betts graduated from Princeton, she was desperate to stand on her own two feet and discover who she really was.Kate decided to take a leap of faith and move to Paris where she would throw herself into Parisian culture, master French and a find a job that would give her a reason to stay.After a ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour-Sergeant Kailash Khebang
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For the first time in its 200 year history, a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu was born in one of the most remote hill villages of Nepal. His family had no running water or electricity. The nearest town was sever ...Show more
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness by Neil Strauss
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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead is a hilarious and revealing collection of celebrity interviews by Neil Strauss. In this book he: makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Motley Crue out of jail and gets kidnapped by Courtney Love; shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young and goes to church ...Show more
Glitter and Glue: A Compelling Memoir About One Woman's Discovery of the True Meaning of Motherhood by Kelly Corrigan
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarised the the division of labour ...Show more
Girl in Glass: How My "Distressed Baby" Defied the Odds, Shamed a CEO, and Taught Me the Essence of Love, Heartbreak, and Miracles by Deanna Fei
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Deanna Fei was just five-and-a-half months pregnant when she inexplicably went into labor. Minutes later, she met her tiny baby who clung to life support inside a glass box. Fei was forced to confront terrifying questions: How to be the mother of a child she could lose at any moment. Whether her daughte ...Show more
Message to My Girl : A Dying Father's Powerful Legacy of Hope by Jared Noel and David W. Williams
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Doctor Jared Noel knew he was dying for almost six years, from the age of 25. But when it looked as though he would not live to see the birth of his child, he began a Givealittle crowd-funding campaign to raise money for a course of chemo treatment that would keep him alive long enough to meet his unbor ...Show more