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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
Dugard, Martin
An engrossing account of the journey that Henry Morgan Stanley undertakes to locate the missing British explorer, David Livingstone. The African landscape is vividly portrayed, along with fascinating but often gruesome details of the amazing hardships and violence encountered along the way, including tribal conflicts and the slave trade. While providing well-researched historical context, the book is essentially a suspense story and a great adventure.
[Adult Nonfiction Book ]
Sharon M., Web Services
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
Hubbell, Sue
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small farm in the Ozarks. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared for. An uplifting, marvelous book about a woman finding her way in middle age.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 508.7788 H]
Mary B., Ridgedale Library
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Von Drehle, Dave
Set against the background of the struggles of Italian and Jewish immigrants, corrupt city politics, and the rise of the fashion industry, "Triangle" is the story of the fire that broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911. A gripping, page-turning tale relating the horror of the disaster with little graphic detail.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 974.71 V]
Jennifer L., Ridgedale Library
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Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
Barra, Allen
In this comprehensive and incredibly engaging biography, each of Berra's baseball highlights (10 American League Pennants, 8 World Series Championships and 3 Most Valuable Player awards) is meticulously described. From his childhood growing up in St Louis, Missouri's Italian neighborhood to his postplayer roles as a manager and coach Barra covers it all and what we embrace throughout is a great athlete and a good guy.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 921 B4493]
Jennifer L., Ridgedale Library
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Sizwe's Test
Steinberg, Jonny
In this beautiful and extremely well-researched title, Steinberg tells the story of Sizwe Magadla, an educated and successful South African, who refuses to be tested for HIV despite knowing he is at risk for the disease. Through Magadla, you are really able to gain insight into the fear, stigma and confusion that exists around HIV/AIDS throughout South Africa and the World.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 362.19697 S]
Dillon Y., Brookdale Library
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Once Upon a Town
Greene, Bob
From Christmas 1941 to the end of World War II, the town of North Platte, Nebraska, transformed its railroad depot into a canteen where soldiers could enjoy food, music and a friendly face on their way through town. The canteen was staffed and funded entirely by town volunteers 6 days a week, 24 hours a day. This wonderful book is based on the reminiscences of both soldiers' and townspeople's experiences and showed how one town honored its "brave and dedicated sons."
[Adult Nonfiction Book 978.2 G]
Lynn M., Osseo Library
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Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Hari, Daoud
Daoud Hari belongs to the Zaghawa tribe from Darfur (Sudan). After his village was distroyed by the Sudan military and rebels he escaped to a refuge camp in Chad. There he put his limited English and fluency in Arabic and Zaghawa to work risking his life to act as a translator for journalists from all over the world wanting to interview people still alive in villages in Darfur.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 962.4043 H]
Jennifer L., Ridgedale Library
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Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood
Garr, Teri
Comic actress Teri Garr recounts her career highlights (and lows) with great humor. Filled with movie anecdotes, this is light reading, but then her story encounters a big "speedbump" when mysterious and annoying physical symptoms finally (after 20 years) lead to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Garr's positive attitude on life with its inevitable speedbumps will both inspire and entertain you.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 921 G1847]
Kim B., Ridgedale Library
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The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
Stape, John
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) considered himself a man of three lives: one as an ethnic Pole born in the Ukraine who lived the early part of his life in what is now Poland, one as a widely traveled seaman, and another as a writer in England. A master at reinventing himself, Conrad occasionally applied his fiction writing skills to autobiography. To further complicate matters, some of those close to him gave inaccurate accounts of his life. John Stape, editor of the Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad and co-editor of 2 volumes of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, is the ideal biographer for such a complex subject. Stape debunks most of the Conradian myths in this great biography. This authoritative and insightful book should be appreciated by all who enjoy Conrad's work, as well as readers who like good biography.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 921 C761]
Eddie A., St. Anthony Library
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Acts of Faith
Patel, Eboo
Patel discovers his identity in the middle of his life journey. This awakening brings wisdom and also poses fundamental questions about what matters most: Religion. He started to ask himself as to why men use the name of God to kill each other. He elegantly argues how mainstream faith failed to reach young people like Osama bin Laden and Yighal Amir, the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin. After touring the world and meeting with religious leaders like Dalai Lama, he believed that it is possible to turn anger into love. He believed that angry youth can be transformed by faith, by the community and, most of all, by himself. This firm belief and commitment helped him found an Interfaith Youth Core that could cross religious boundaries, ethnicity and race.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 305.697 P]
Guthema R., Golden Valley Library
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