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'Finding Baby Holly' is the true, inspiring story of a wife and mother who was 'missing' for over 40 years after her parents' murders, the persistent detectives who never stopped investigating, and the birth family who never lost hope in finding her.

"Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood...

Excerpt from the book: "In the issue of The Outlook for June 18 there was a quotation from a letter of an Anti-Imperialist correspondent, who, in speaking of Egypt and the Philippines, stated that the proper course to pursue was to protect countries of this nature by international agreement, the writer citing in support of his theory the way in which many small powers had their territories guaranteed by international agreement. The trouble is in...

"They're not dead, are they?" The officer's body visibly slumped as he delivered his final nod. From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn't bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only seventeen when her parents were killed by a drunk driver. This is her story-behind the headlines-of when the Morris orphans only...

En su cumpleaños treinta y cinco, Niven Neyland estaba en lo alto –un negocio próspero, una hermosa prometida, una familia muy unida, un amoroso hermano mayor. Hasta que una decisión incorrecta detrás del volante resultó en la muerte de su hermano, la pérdida de su negocio, sus sueños rotos y una sentencia de prisión por homicidio involuntario causado por el manejo de vehículo

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"Yes, I have now stepped on all six habitable continents, and this trip tagged number six."She looked at me perplexed, "You don't look old enough to have accomplished that."In Suma Mathai's maiden travel memoir, you will get a unique perspective of how a childhood dream to see the world becomes a reality. Through an enterprising and adventurous spirit, she is able to live life to the fullest. Wanderlust Adventures of the Girl Who Could highlights...

Chronicling the author's intellectual and emotional odyssey in his pursuit of this ideal whiteness, the price of its admission and the work he's doing to bridge the divide from those he once sought distance from.

"In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the First and Second...

Referenced by Winston Churchill as one of...the greatest books ever written in the English language..., “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” follows British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence through his time during the First World War. Completed in 1922, the book was not published until 1926. An autobiographical account told in fantastical prose, this telling of historical events shows the Arab Revolt through Lawrence's eyes in vivid detail.

"Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood"--