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This book was inspired by the last Negro League World Series ever played and presents biographies of the players on the two contending teams in 1948-the Birmingham Black Barons and the Homestead Grays-as well as the managers, the owners, and articles on the ballparks the teams called home.
Also included are articles that recap the season's two East-West All-Star Games, the Negro National League and Negro American League playoff series, and the World...
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My step-mother, June, lived alone until her nineties, but over time fell into the depths of dementia. With no biological children of her own, I was the one left to guide her down the path toward the end of her life. Haunted by my father's last words to me to take care of his Junie, I couldn't walk away from this difficult task.
In 2008, the recession hit. I was laid off from my job and my husband, Richard and I moved 150 miles away to start anew....
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BITTERSWEET FREEDOM's sweeping allegory peels back seven-decades in the lives of the author's family: from the shores of Europe to the shores of America, telling the mesmerizing Romantic Tale of her parents, two young, star-crossed lovers caught up in the turbulence of World War II and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
BITTERSWEET FREEDOM is a Majestic Story (both a memoir and biography) embedded with accurate historical accounts, entwined about the...
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Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport-and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or cynicism common to writing on boxing, The Bittersweet Science is a collection of essays about boxing by contributors who are not only skilled writers but also have extensive firsthand experience...
87) Bitter/Sweet
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Brian, an American businessman, is sent to Thailand in search of local coffee plantations to purchase, but he ends up finding more than just coffee, and that the original purpose of the trip might not even be about coffee after all.
89) Bittersweet Freedom - What Would You Be Willing to Sacrifice to Live in Freedom? Would It Be Wort
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“Bittersweet Freedom” - A True Story and Magnificently Written Drama of Human Suffering, Courage, Human Mortality, and Selfless Love and Sacrifice.
“Bittersweet Freedom” is a Majestic Story (both a memoir and biography) embedded with accurate historical accounts, entwined about the horrific atrocities suffered by her parents (as children) during World War II in Hungary, describing the unimaginable terrors inflicted upon them, and the Hungarian...
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On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920's, where Lena's impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena's new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden...
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Saturday Night Supper Club novels volume 2
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"When an unexpected windfall provides Melody Johansson with the chance to open her dream bakery-café in Denver with her best friend, chef Rachel Bishop, she's faced with an impossible choice: stay and put down roots with the people and place she's come to call home . . . or give it all up for the man she loves"--
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The book explores the hidden stories behind this sweet product, revealing how powerful American interests deposed Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii, how Hitler tried to ensure a steady supply of beet sugar when enemies threatened to cut off Germany's supply of overseas cane sugar, and how South Africa established a domestic ethanol industry in the wake of anti-apartheid sugar embargos. The book follows the history of sugar to the present day, showing...
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Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom.
For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci-a mute, musically gifted...
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Anne Carson was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland. She is an acclaimed poet, essayist, translator, and classicist, and has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur, the PEN/Nabokov Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her books Autobiography of Red and Nox were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library
Anne...
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Yrvin Lacroix, a determined young man, faces a heart-wrenching betrayal when his pregnant girlfriend, Michaela, succumbs to family pressure and is sent to Strasbourg, France. Wrestling with his own feelings of betrayal, Yrvin earns a software engineering degree from Barry University in South Florida, on the cusp of achieving his dream job. However, this success is bittersweet, haunted by the specter of lost love and the separation from his family...
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In Rosanna Chiofalo's touching novel, a unique pastry shop features mouthwatering creations that have the power to change one woman's life…
Food writer Claudia Lombardo has sampled exquisite dishes by the world's greatest chefs. But when she hears about the remarkable desserts that are created in a pastry shop operated out of a convent in the sleepy Italian hillside town of Santa Lucia del Mela, she wants to write a book featuring the sweets and...
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After adopting her son from a Chinese orphanage, Chris Prange-Morgan and her husband soon realized that the picture-perfect family life they had envisioned was not to be. Abandoned, severely neglected, and malnourished, their son had suffered profound trauma in his earliest years that no amount of love or affection could remedy. His deep emotional wounds manifested as challenging behaviors that strained family relationships and thwarted well-intentioned...
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Young gullible and blissfully naïve, Taliyah Russo let her guard down, allowing two treacherous but alluring men to steal her heart. Avery and Demarco, rivaling brothers, introduced Taliyah to a lavish lifestyle that she couldn't turn down which ultimately led to her demise. Plotting her bittersweet revenge on everyone who has betrayed her, Taliyah meets four traumatized women through a behavioral health program and manipulates them to join her vindictive...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The author learned that we have up to twenty-seven different emotions, but we can't tell a good story about so many different characters. We need to narrow it down and pick one emotion as the main protagonist.
#2 The story of how Sadness was created is a perfect example of how the Pixar team works together to create a better film. They were originally going to place...
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Tiny and adorable when they first met, Rui – still just as adorable – now looms over his boyfriend, Yuujirou. Though they were little more than best friends at first, the confusion over their true feelings for one another smoldered until they confessed. Now every day passes with such overwhelming sweetness it's all they can do not to ask themselves, "am I allowed to be this happy?"
The final high school judo contest, the last summer of their...
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