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The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss—and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legend.
In early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband Chris were the happiest they ever had been. Their decade-long marriage had survived years of war that took Chris, a U.S. Navy SEAL,
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"It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro's traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forges on. They build a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopt at birth. Eventually, they...
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2012.
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In 2003, Pat Tillman, serving in the US Army, hastily wrote a "just in case" letter to his wife, Marie. When he returned on leave before his departure to Afghanistan, he placed the letter on top of their bedroom dresser. Then, in April 2004, Marie's worst nightmare came true. In the days following Pat's death, it was his letter that kept her going and, more than that, it was his words that would help her learn to navigate a world she could no longer...
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"The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students...
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2024
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English
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"A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman's stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner's final days. Crystal offers a vulnerable and clear-eyed look at how her experience with Hugh Hefner catalyzed her transformative journey from someone who prized external validation over all else to a person who finally recognizes her true worth. This candid...
10) Jackie
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of a...
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2024.
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English
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This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
15) On my own
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"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
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[2021]
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vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death.
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2011.
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423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Natalie Taylor has a charmed life. Surrounded by her large, close-knit family, she enjoys her meaningful job as a high-school English teacher, cherishes being married to her college sweetheart and is ecstatic about their baby on the way. Then her husband dies in a freak accident and, in an instant, life as she has known it is over."--Back cover.
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[2018]
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239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
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"It's 1943 and World War II is raging when 22-year-old Nina Raff learns that her Army pilot husband has been killed while transporting supplies over the Himalayas. To escape her grief, she instantly quits her job, moves across the country, and totally changes her life. When the war ends, Nina connects with a man she hardly knows and finds herself plunged into a dysfunctional marriage. Her alcoholic husband won't allow any talk of her first marriage,...
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2014.
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270 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When her college-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what she wants or even who she is. Searching for answers, she...
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[2021]
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xix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"In [this book], with refreshing honesty and vulnerability, Janet shares the darkest moments in the aftermath of her husband's death and takes us on a journey toward healing and wholeness. She doesn't offer simple formula; instead, she shows us the reality of healing--that it can be messy and slow. But making the effort, as Janet discovered, can bring strength and purpose in amazing new ways."--Page 4 of cover.
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