Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich
By: Joanne D. Gilbert
4.40
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
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1. Black Like Me
By: John Howard Griffin
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Usi… read more
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"Now you go into oblivion."-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
"We need a conversion of morals,"-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
"Night coming tenderly Black like me."-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
"In the context of today, this WAS heroism."-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
2. 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
By: Steven Pressman
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple trans… read more
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3. The Choice: Embrace the Possible
By: Edith Eger , Edith Eva Eger
4.58
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
It’s 1944 and sixteen-year-old ballerina and gymnast Edith Eger is sent to Auschwitz. Separated fro… read more
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"Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time."-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
"...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled. "You're going to be fifty anyhow"-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
"Survivors don't have time to ask, "Why me?" For survivors, the only relevant question is, "What now?"-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
"We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible."-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
4. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
By: Tavis Smiley , Wes Moore
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, de… read more
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5. A Little Princess
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more
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6. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By: J.D. Vance
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more
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7. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
8. Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich
By: Joanne D. Gilbert
4.40
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich provides a unique and inspiring perspective on … read more
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