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Good kids, bad city

a story of race and wrongful conviction in America
2019
"Documents the true story of one of the longest wrongful imprisonment cases in U.S. history, detailing how three African-American men were incarcerated for nearly four decades before a questionable witness recanted his testimony"--OCLC.

Flying paintings

the Zhou Brothers : a story of revolution and art
Presents an illustrated look at the lives of Chinese-American contemporary artists Shan Zuo and Da Huang Zhou.

Catch and kill

lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
2019
This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.

How to fail at almost everything and still win big

kind of the story of my life
2013
Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, offers a memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success.

Good kids, bad city

a story of race and wrongful conviction in America
"Documents the true story of one of the longest wrongful imprisonment cases in U.S. history, detailing how three African-American men were incarcerated for nearly four decades before a questionable witness recanted his testimony"--OCLC.

Katie Couric

A brief biography of CBS anchor, Katie Couric, that profiles her childhood in Arlington, Virginia, early career in journalism, personal tragedies, and success in television news broadcasting.

Hunting El Chapo

the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
2018
"Documents the inside story of DEA Special Agent Andrew Hoganand his eight-year pursuit of the world's most-wanted drug kingpin, a case that involved the infiltration of El Chapo'sinner circle."--OCLC.
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Swimming in the sink

a memoir
Memoir from swimmer Lynne Cox, who swam the English Channel at age fifteen and also swam for twenty-five minutes in water off the coast of Antarctica without a wetsuit. Discusses research done on Cox's unique abilities to endure freezing temperatures and her shocking diagnosis of atrial fibrillation that forced her to reconcile with her own mortality and physical frailty.
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The color of water

a black man's tribute to his white mother
James McBride shares the story of his mother's life and complicated racial identity which he only learned after becoming an adult. He tells of her infancy in Poland as the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, her childhood in small-town Virginia, her move to Harlem at the age of eighteen, her marriage to an African-American man, her achievements as a wife and mother to twelve children, and her refusal to ever admit she is white.
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The color of water

a black man's tribute to his white mother
James McBride chronicles his twelve-year journey to learn about his mother's past, describing her unhappy childhood, marriage, refusal to admit she was white, and creation of an all-black church in Harlem, and shares details of his own life and the challenges he faced coping with his family's secrets.
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