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The author shares her journey growing up in the poorest county in Kentucky, graduating from Harvard, and finding her way back home to help the Kentucky women by providing free legal services.

Recounts the football player's journey from one challenge to the next, sharing the deeper story behind the headlines that prepared him to help his daughter fight cancer.

On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, Journalist Mark Woods deciees to reconnect with nature, spending the year visiting national parks, but his mother's unexpected terminal cancer diagnosis has him reflecting deeper, on the future of the great outdoors, family, and the legacies we leave behind.

"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--Provided by publisher.

"Inheriting her father's 7,000 acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, the author accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland, peeling back layers of the American story, the politics of food and the culture of the Great Plains"--OCLC.

The Chinese American journalist describes how her obsession with grief culminated in her mother's death from cancer. She offers an intimate look at her relationship with her mother, her mother's life and decline, and the grief that affected her and her family members in different ways. She also reflects on the impact of other deaths in her family.

"In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric"--Amazon.

Details author Lorenzo Carcaterra's memories of how three women shaped and influenced the course of his life. First, his Italian grandmother offered him respite from his difficult home life and provided examples of courage during the Nazi occupation. Second, his mother taught him harsh lessons in survival and pushing himself toward a better life. And third, his loving wife of three decades became a champion of his work and showed him the power of storytelling.

"The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--Provided by publisher.

"A beautifully illustrated memoir and empathetic investigation into a family's history with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and one woman's quest to find healing among what remains"--.