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The memoir 'Not On My Watch', by Bob Hatrak, who was the youngest warden of a maximum-security prison in America, Rahway State, is an inspirational story of how one man with great vision, overcame personal adversity to become one of the most notable and progressive prison reformers of our time. His approach to rehabilitation was 'do-it-yourself'. Inmates were empowered to envision their path after incarceration and were given the choice to join self-rehab...
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History Hub presents a complete biography of Anne Frank from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires us even today. On June 12, 1929, Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Her parents were Edith and Otto Frank. When Hitler became Germany's leader, the family decided to move to Amsterdam. When Germany invaded the Netherlands, the family hid in the office building's secret annex. On August 4, 1944, the German police received a tip...
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History Hub presents a complete biography of Harriet Tubman from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires us even today. Harriet Tubman, originally named Araminta Ross. was born into slavery in a Maryland plantation owned by Anthony Thompson. Her father, Ben Ross, was also under the same slave owner while her mother, Harriet Green, was owned by Mary Brodess, Mr. Thompson's second wife. Upon turning eleven, she changed her name to Harriet to follow...
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The poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers-a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical politics, and spiritual transformation that speaks to a new generation struggling to understand what it means to be Jewish in America.
The child of a Holocaust survivor, Yossi Klein Halevi grew up in 1960s Brooklyn perceiving reality through the lens of his...
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From one of the world's most celebrated and admired public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt, a collection of her most treasured sayings-the perfect gift for Mother's Day, graduation, and a new generation of feminists.
With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. We've all heard this powerful Eleanor Roosevelt adage-it is, perhaps, one of her best known. A wise leader, she knew the power of words, and...
6) However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
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In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa.
This moving biography details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and one of humanity's...
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She gave up everything: her home, her possessions, even her real name. She called herself Peace Pilgrim, put on her sneakers, and started off on her quest to walk thousands of miles all around America. Step by step, mile after mile, Peace Pilgrim traveled tirelessly, inviting everyone she met to consider a world where each person and each nation chooses peace.
This true story about a little-known woman who sacrificed everything for her convictions...
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Mi memoria aún recuerda fresca, así como dolorosamente las violentas y destructivas sacudidas, provocadas por el mortífero terremoto de la madrugada del día sábado 23 de diciembre de 1972: 12:35 a.m. En líneas generales habíamos tenido los managuas un buen año en diferentes aspectos de nuestras vidas. En lo personal había aprobado mi 4to. nivel de secundaria en el colegio San Francisco de Asís, había sido remozada en sus avenidas y calles...
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A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick
"A wonderful book." --Patti Smith
"I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration
Karen Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of...
10) Rester debout !
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Très jeune, Marie-Line perd l'amour de sa vie de manière tragique. Elle se retrouve seule avec leur fils âgé de seulement 18 mois. Elle raconte son deuil, son parcours vers la reconstruction, et relate comment le cancer s'est insinué au milieu du chaos qu'est devenue sa vie. Cette existence bascule brusquement dans un tourbillon de larmes, de colère et d'injustice. Néanmoins, avec une touche d'humour, elle transmet aussi un message d'espoir,...
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Are You Shining Your Light as Brilliantly as You're Meant To?
If you yearn to generate positive change in the world and create a larger impact, this book is for you. Working to transform the world shouldn't feel like wading through mud. It also doesn't mean taking a vow of poverty or sacrificing your personal life.
"A Firefly is someone who sees past the way things are to the way things can be and takes action to bring about a better...
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At any given moment gun violence has claimed the lives of innocent people. Whether it be a massacre or single shooting, they are all devastating losses due to illegal gun possession. Contained within these pages are inspirational stories of survival, advocacy and action shared by those who were suddenly affected by the loss of a loved one to heal themselves, other survivors, our society, implement sensible gun legislation for a better future. These...
13) Say Hello
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A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly.
'In fairytales,the characters who look different are often castas the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their unconventional skinthat they are seen as "good" or less frightening. There are very fewstories where the character that looks different is the hero...
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True stories of young women who made a big difference! From authors to activists, painters to politicians, inventors to icons, these inspiring teenagers are proof that girls can change the world.
Joan of Arc. Anne Frank. Cleopatra. Pocahontas. Mary Shelley. Many of these heroines are well-known. But have you heard of Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old daughter of an American colonel who rode twice as far as the far better-remembered Paul Revere to warn...
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Après de multiples hospitalisations, Agathe décide de nous livrer son quotidien ainsi que celui d'autres personnes touchées par l'anorexie ou la boulimie. Ce recueil de témoignages qui relate le combat de ces personnes malades afin de retrouver une vie normale est également une invitation à accompagner ceux qui souffrent au lieu de les stigmatiser.
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Atteinte d'anorexie mentale depuis plusieurs années, Agathe Malo est...
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Learn About Amazing Black Heroes That Shaped History (Ages 8–12)
A fun book for children with moving stories about Black trailblazers who persevered through adversity to inspire generations to come.
Inspirational stories of Black heroes. Discover how Black heroes have overcome adversity, from the story of writer and activist Maya Angelou, to the less known tale of Nance Legins-Costley, a slave whose freedom was won in a supreme court case by a...
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Beryl Potter was a reserved working-class mother of three living a decent life, or so it seemed, when a harmless slip and fall marked the unravelling of everything that she had known about herself and the world around her. Over the course of six years, she endured unimaginable pain. As doctors raced to save her life, her limbs and eyesight were taken from her one by one. In the span of a few years, she lost nearly half her body, her financial security,...
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Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver's controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year...
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An engaging, lively, provocative and, above all, inspiring memoir from one of our home-grown, unsung feminist heroes, Merle Thornton, who has lived a life full of daring, defiance and activism.
Merle Thornton is one of Australia's most delightful, formidable and game-changing pioneering feminists - a woman who through her daring and defiance helped bring about positive change for generations of Australian women.
In her most audacious act, in 1965...
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This is a short biography of the lessons I have learned and the things I have experienced since my first epileptic seizure.This can help others to better understand epilepsy as well as the experiences that people with epilepsy deal with on a day to day basis. All of these experiences make you stronger and wiser and have inspired me to tell everyone my story, while being open and honest, which will hopefully help people who have been recently diagnosed...
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