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The Cure: by Geeta Anand (NonFiction) How a Father Raised $100 Million--And Bucked the Medical Establishment--In a Quest to Save His Children. |
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The pursuit of happyness
Gardner, Chris (Chris P.)
At the age of twenty, African American Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue
a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting
his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed
an entry level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a
web of challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless
with his toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless
child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year in shelters,
"HO-tels", and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner went from being part
of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district.--From
publisher description.
Subjects Gardner, Chris (Chris P.) Stockbrokers -- United States -- Biography. Gardner Rich & Co. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Crazy for the storm : a memoir
of survival
Ollestad, Norman.
A heart-stopping adventure that ends in tragedy and in triumphs, it’s a love story
that fearlessly explores the bond between a father and son and what it means to
lead a life without limits.
Subjects Ollestad, Norman -- Childhood and youth. Aircraft accident victims -- California -- Biography. Aircraft accidents -- California -- San Bernardino Mountains. Child surfers -- California -- Biography. Downhill ski racing -- United States -- Biography. Ollestad, Norman -- Family. Ollestad, Norman, 1935-1979. Fathers and sons -- United States. Fathers -- Death. Competition (Psychology) Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The glass castle : a memoir
Walls, Jeannette.
Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional
love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination
to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Subjects Walls, Jeannette. Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography. Problem families -- United States -- Case studies. Poor -- Biography. Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Snow flower and the secret
fan : a novel
See, Lisa.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived
in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their
own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”).
Subjects Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction. Female friendship -- Fiction. Women -- China -- Fiction. Married women -- Fiction. Older women -- Fiction. Footbinding -- Fiction. Childbirth -- Fiction. Secrecy -- Fiction. China -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Three cups of tea : one man's
mission to promote peace -- one school at a time
Mortenson, Greg.
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American
reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering
emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed
back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day
and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible
humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism
by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the
Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived
kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children.
But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had
built fifty-five schools--From publisher description.
Subjects Girls' schools -- Pakistan. Girls' schools -- Afghanistan. Humanitarian assistance, American -- Pakistan. Humanitarian assistance, American -- Afghanistan. Mortenson, Greg. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Eat, pray, love : one woman's
search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in
search of pleasure, guidance, experience and wholeness.
Subjects Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- -- Travel. Travel writers -- United States -- Biography. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The lost city of Z : a tale
of deadly obsession in the Amazon
Grann, David.
Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker, gives a gripping, detailed account of the
fate of English explorer Percy Fawcett. Fawcett disappeared into the jungles of
Brazil in 1925 with his son and his son's best friend.
Subjects Amazon River Region -- Description and travel. El Dorado. Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925? -- Travel -- Amazon River Region. Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925? -- Death and burial. Grann, David -- Travel -- Amazon River Region. Explorers -- Amazon River Region. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Beautiful boy : a father's
journey through his son's meth addiction
Sheff, David.
From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright
and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet
as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself
going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol,
he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's
story, but from the perspective of his father, David.--From amzon.com.
Subjects Drug abuse -- Treatment -- California. Methamphetamine abuse -- Treatment -- California. Children of divorced parents -- California. Sheff, David. Sheff, Nic. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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She's come undone
Lamb, Wally.
Bruised by her parents' divorce, her mother's breakdown, and brutal betrayal by
a neighbor, Dolores Price tries to retreat from life. Overwhelming anger and defiance
frequently blind her to the needs of others, yet even in despair she battles for
love and acceptance, supported by some delightfully unconventional friends.
Subjects Self-perception -- Fiction. Aug 2001. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Horse soldiers: the extraordinary
story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan
Stanton, Doug.
Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers
who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against
the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across mountainous
terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif,
which was strategically essential if they were to defeat the Taliban.
Subjects Afghan War, 2001- -- Cavalry operations, American. Afghan War, 2001- -- Aerial operations, American. Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narratives, American. United States. Army. Special Forces -- History -- 21st century. Special operations (Military science) -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century. Soldiers -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Soldiers -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century. Urban warfare -- Afghanistan -- Mazār-i Sharīf -- History -- 21st century.y. Mazār-i Sharīf (Afghanistan) -- History, Military -- 21st century.y. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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A long way gone : memoirs
of a boy soldier
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people
running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.”
I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This
is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s.
Children have become soldiers of choice.
Subjects Beah, Ishmael, 1980- Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Personal narratives. Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Participation, Juvenile -- Biography. Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography. Sierra Leone -- Social conditions -- 1961- Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The price
Sokoloff, Alexandra.
Will Sullivan has his sights set on becoming the next governor of Massachusetts.
With everything falling into place on his campaign, Will is regarded as a shoo-in;
that is, until he and his wife, Joanna, discover that their daughter, Sydney, has
a malignant tumor. Will fights for his daughter's life. But things are not as they
seem at Briarwood Medical Center.
Subjects Public prosecutors -- Fiction. Sick children -- Fiction. Medical centers -- Fiction. Massachusetts -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |