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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
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Include books by the same authorHana's Suitcase: A True Story
Karen Levine · 111 pages
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon · 287 pages
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamela Sediqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and security. Desperate to help her family and support her five brothers and sisters at home, Kamela bega
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 381 pages
Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
Pam Belluck · 304 pages
"If you need an emergency appendectomy on Nantucket, the man who will perform it knows how to do so with an arrowhead. Island life is like that: a little unusual, improvised, independent and outside the mainstream. At a time when America's family doctors are under siege, and so many things in health care are combustible and complicated, Timothy Lepore is an extraordinary character. He is the glue
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
John Colapinto · 307 pages
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Debbie Nathan · 297 pages
The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality case.
The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America
Alan Philps, John Lahutsky · 288 pages
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
Ben Hills · 320 pages
The tragic story of Japan's Crown Princess.It's the fantasy of many young women—marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out for Masako Owada. A thoroughly modern woman in collision
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · 352 pages
Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas · 288 pages
The unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts him in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the NFL. In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discov
George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
Janet Benge, Geoff Benge · 203 pages
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Mallory O'Meara · 368 pages
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
Donald H. Wolfe · 560 pages
Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
Deborah Scroggins · 389 pages
Glamorous aid worker Emma McCune refused to conform - her affairs and attitude made her famous in East Africa. She married a local warlord, who was deeply enmeshed in murder and rebellion. This is the story of her life and death.
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak · 240 pages
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson · 635 pages
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a t
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys
Peter Evans · 352 pages
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Amy Ellis Nutt · 304 pages
The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post. When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they
Joe Gould's Teeth
Jill Lepore · 235 pages
"A "New Yorker" staff writer and Harvard historian chronicles the discovery of Joe Gould's long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time," and of the violence, betrayals, and madness that led to its concealment,"--NoveList. From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a centur
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall · 317 pages
"In early 1968, desperate entrepreneur Donald Crowhurst was trying to sell a nautical navigation device he had developed when he saw that the Sunday Times would be sponsoring the Golden Globe Race, the first ever solo, round-the-world sailing competition. An avid amateur sailor, Crowhurst sensed a marketing opportunity and shocked the world by entering the competition using an untested trimaran of
Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach
Meryl Gordon · 320 pages
The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor’s only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
Daniel Ammann · 302 pages
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Daniel Schulman · 432 pages