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Hope dies last : visionary people across the world, fighting to find us a future
Published [2025]
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Where nobody knows your name : life in the minor leagues of baseball
Published [2014]
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“…Scott Elarton : starting over -- Podsednik and Montoyo : the walk-off hero and the .400 hitter -- Lindsey, Schwinden, and Lollo : the mayor, the traveler, and the ump -- Slice of life : Rolling with the punches in-- Allentown-- Pawtucket-- Norfolk -- Johnson and Montoyo : managing expectations -- Slice of life : Sent down-- called up-- -- Schwinden and Podsednik : life on the roller coaster -- Slice of life : Wally Backman, second chances -- Slice of life : All roads lead to Norfolk -- Nate McLouth, comeback kid -- Elarton : still one step away -- Slice of life : On the road in pinstripes -- Slice of life : Managing-- Indianapolis -- Schwinden and Lindsey : home sweet home -- Slice of life : Jamie Farr would be proud -- Slice of life : Weekend in Toledo -- Brett Tomko : more than nine lives -- Mark Lollo : traveling the umpiring road -- Slice of life : Managing the highs and lows -- Slice of life : I-75 -- Elarton : pigs (not) in the bigs-- and the ever-present revolving door -- Slice of life : Columbus -- From Montoyo to Longoria : hot summer nights in Durham -- Slice of life : Charlotte -- Podsednik : hot streak -- Ron Johnson : real life gets serious -- Maine and Schwinden : comebacks -- One at-bat in eight years -- Elarton : fighting Father Time -- Voices of the minors -- The endless month -- Slice of life : Syracuse-- Washington-- Columbus-- -- Tomko and Lindsey : it's never over till-- -- Slice of life : Syracuse -- Lollo : a bad call -- March to September -- Lollo and Tomko : ending.…”
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Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
Published 2012.
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“…Hatshepsut : Pharaoh -- The Trung sisters : warrior queens -- Joan of Arc : warrior and saint -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : scholar and poet -- Laura Bassi : physicist -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney : agricultural entrepreneur -- Phillis Wheatley : poet -- Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun : painter -- Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist and composer -- Sacagawea : guide and interpreter -- Mary Anning : Fossil hunter -- The Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) : authors -- Florence Nightingale : nurse -- Harriet Tubman : abolitionist -- Margaret Knight : inventor -- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson : orator, abolitionist, and suffragette -- Sarah Bernhardt : actress -- Edmonia Lewis : sculptor -- Emma Lazarus : poet -- Helen Keller : writer and advocate -- Anna Pavlova : ballerina -- Coco Chanel : fashion designer -- Bessie Smith : singer -- Irène Joliot-Curie : chemist -- Marian Anderson : singer -- Golda Meir : prime minister -- Queen Sālote Tupou III : queen -- Frida Kahlo : painter -- Mother Teresa : missionary -- Mary Leakey : archaeologist and anthropologist -- Jackie Mitchell : athlete -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : athlete -- Indira Gandhi : prime minister -- Eva "Evita" Perón : actress and politician -- Anne Frank : diarist -- Wilma Rudolph : athlete -- The Night Witches : fighter pilots -- Temple Grandin : scientist, inventor, and advocate -- Susan Eloise (S. …”
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Above ground : poems
Published 2023.
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“…All at once -- Waiting on a heartbeat -- FaceTime -- Passage -- "It's all in your head" -- Trying to light a candle in the wind -- When people say "we have made it through worse before" -- By chance -- In the grocery store you are wrapped tightly onto my chest -- Ode to the electric baby swing -- Ode to the infant hiccup -- Ode to the first smile -- Nociception -- Your national anthem -- For Willie Francis, the first known person to survive an execution by electric chair, 1946 -- Roots -- Across generations -- The drone -- Pangaea -- The New York Times reports that 200 civilians have just been killed by U.S. military air strikes -- The great escape -- Nomenclature -- This is an incomprehensive list of all the reasons I know I married the right person -- Lines in the sand -- And the world keeps spinning -- Tree rings -- Here nor there -- At the Superdome after the storm has passed -- It is Halloween night and you are dressed as a hot dog -- When we took you to the beach for the first time -- Ode to the bear hug -- For your first birthday -- When we told you another baby was coming -- Legacy -- Counting descent II -- Where are they now? …”
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Roctogenarians : late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs
Published 2024.
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“…Fast-food legends: Colonel Sanders and Clara Peller -- Old money: Warren Buffett -- Like fine wine: Mike Grgich (and other things in your kitchen that have no expiration date) -- Old country: Willie Nelson -- The players: Estelle Getty, Rita Moreno, and Morgan Freeman -- Old spice: Sophia Loren -- Playing for herself: Ruth Slenczynska -- Old chestnut: Rockin' around the Christmas tree -- The writers: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frank McCourt, and Peter Mark Roget -- The readers -- Old testament: Methuselah -- The changemaker: Mary Church Terrell (and other late-in-life activists) -- Old navy: Jimmy Carter -- Old soldiers never die, they just reenlist: Samuel Whittemore, John L. …”
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The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
Published 2013.
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“…Tubealloy : the Bohemian Grove to the Appalachian Hills, September 1942 -- Peaches and pearls : the taking of Site X, Fall 1942. …”Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
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Level up your life : how to unlock adventure and happiness by becoming the hero of your own story
Published 2016.
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
Published [2016]
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