Matthew Paul Turner
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing-sometimes cringe-worthy-and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be "of ... [... more]
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Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Lucy S. Dawidowicz was educated at Hunter College and Columbia University in New York and studied East European Jewish life firsthand at the Yivo Institute of Jewish Research, formerly in Vilna, Poland. She has taught modern Jewish history at ... [... more]
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Michele Kayal
National Geographic Complete Survival Manual is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and user-friendly reference of its kind—and the only one with firsthand advice from the experts at National Geographic and four of the top organizations of ... [... more]
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Joseph Cummins
The Larger Than Life Characters and Dramatic Events That Changed the World This eye-catching volume combines vivid first-hand accounts of pivotal events in history with authoritative commentary. Revealing startling links among events and people ... [... more]
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Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
A New Approach to Treating Anorexia, Bulimia, and Overeating Eating disorders-including anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating-are among the most painful and difficult illnesses a person can face. Sufferers know firsthand the confusion and ... [... more]
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Matt Eversmann
It started as a mission to capture a Somali warlord. It turned into a disastrous urban firefight... Edited by Matt Eversmann and Dan Schilling The Battle of Mogadishu Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger Matt Eversmann and Dan ... [... more]
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Jimmy Starace
THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they [... more]
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Suze Rotolo
Suze Rotolo (aka Susan) is an artist who lives in New York City with her family. A Freewheelin' Time is Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the ... [... more]
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Daniel Deardorff
Daniel Deardorff knows otherness firsthand. This highly regarded "singer" in the old sense of that word-musician, storyteller, maker of ritual-had polio as an infant and has used a wheelchair most of his life, giving him a lived perspective [... more]
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Colleen Craig
Born and raised in western Canada, Colleen Craig studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia. She then lived in South Africa during the 1980s and observed apartheid firsthand. In 1991 she moved back to Canada and settled in ... [... more]
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James Gilligan
Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but destroy themselves rather than suffer a loss ... [... more]
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Johnny Rico
Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico's firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war. No one would have ... [... more]
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