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  • The End of the Twins

    by Saul Diskin ...
    Saul Diskins extraordinary memoir is rich with unique and wonderful intimacythe intimacy of twinship. For me this made that closest of bonds come alive in a way no other book Ive read has succeeded in doing. Diskin makes one feel like a twin, see the world through a twins eyes, suffer with him in a way that is at times almost unbearably close and poignant. One becomes immersed in the life and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Santana and Saúl

    A Dual Memoir

    The book has two related themes. The first is a story of an improbable friendship between a rural, semi-literate, violent, heroin addicted Chicano and a Brooklyn bred Jew, who bonded almost immediately. Life drew them apart for almost half a century and when the friendship resumed, both Santana and Saul realized, to their satisfaction, that their feelings for the other had remained strong.In the ... Read more

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    As fresh and shocking as today’s headlines, a “chilling” (People) Temperance Brennan novel in which a harrowing excavation unearths a terrible tragedy never laid to rest—from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya two decades ago. Leading ... Read more

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  • Twisted

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders.“An elaborate, tangled web . . . With unsuspected turns at every chapter break . ... Read more

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  • Tattoos on the Heart

    The Power of Boundless Compassion

    by Gregory Boyle ...
    “Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times)—Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables about kinship and redemption from pastor, activist, and renowned speaker, Father Gregory Boyle.For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles ... Read more

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  • Twelve Patients

    Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (The Inspiration for the NBC

    **In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection."As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama." —The New York Daily News**Twelve Patients shows the plights of twelve very different patients—from ... Read more

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  • The Devil's Highway

    A True Story

    **This important and timely book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border."The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" —The Atlantic**In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of ... Read more

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  • Drown

    by Junot Díaz ...
    From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World.A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the ... Read more

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  • Always Running

    La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

    The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: "Fierce, and fearless" ( The New York Times).Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs, ... Read more

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  • Act of Betrayal

    by Edna Buchanan ...
    Series Book 4 - The Britt Montero Mysteries
    As a hurricane bears down on Miami, a crime reporter confronts the mystery of her own father's past: "[An] irresistible series" ( Kirkus Reviews).When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men ... Read more

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  • Learning to Die in Miami

    Confessions of a Refugee Boy

    by Carlos Eire ...
    Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and transplanted to Miami during the years of the Kennedy administration.In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before ... Read more

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  • Little School

    Tales of Disappearance and Survival

    One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. The Little School is Alicia Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment in Argentina in ... Read more

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