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The beloved Julie Andrews has captured our hearts on screen for decades, but she has never told the story of her life before fame—until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn...

Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared...

The Missing JFK Assassination Film is not the typical JFK assassination book. This book does not attempt to answer the question of who killed John F. Kennedy; instead it addresses why we should question the actions of those involved and why the truth was withheld from the people. Though copies of Orville Nix's film exist, the original film is missing. Why? The FBI confiscated Orville's camera for several months, then returned it in pieces. Were these actions sinister, or were they just examples of governmental incompetence?

A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For 10 years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for 10 years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken?

They were my entire world, then everything fell apart. I didn't get to say goodbye, I didn't get to explain to them that my dad had finally gone off the deep end. Of course, they wouldn't have understood anyway—we were only eight and I never told them how bad it had gotten. Maybe if I had I wouldn't be in this fucked up situation.

¿Y si tu casa por fin se sintiera como un lugar donde respirar? Nada de sentirte abrumado en cuanto cruzas la puerta. Nada de vergüenza cuando alguien aparece de visita. Nada de empezar una nueva rutina y abandonarla, solo para volver al mismo desorden de siempre. Solo una tranquilidad y un orgullo silencioso que hace tiempo que no sentías. Si vives con TDAH, ya sabes que las soluciones de organización de siempre no funcionan.

Cultiva tus propios alimentos en 30 días, sin cavar, sin gastar de más y sin necesitar un jardín perfecto. Jardinería orgánica para principiantes te enseña a convertir cualquier espacio—patio, balcón, césped duro o un rincón mínimo—en un huerto productivo y fácil de cuidar. Con pasos claros y prácticos, aprenderás a montar una cama de cultivo sin cavar en una tarde, conseguir materiales gratuitos, elegir cultivos rápidos y mantener tu huerto sin complicarte. Incluye infografías simples, listas de verificación y planes adaptables a cualquier clima o tamaño.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...

Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton...

It was supposed to be an easy housesitting gig. Kick back in a luxurious Victorian house for a few days. Hand out Halloween candy and score a payday. I wasn't counting on the home invasion. Everything was going to plan until my last group of trick-or-treaters was three tall, stacked men wearing...

In the early '60s, in a seemingly more "innocent" time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that's just hearsay and rumor, isn't it?

Oubreak - Week 1: Presidents, prime ministers, entire governments disappeared instantly, like a fragile house of cards in a hurricane. Some hid deep underground or holed up in fortified strongholds, but most were swallowed up by the dead, never to be heard from again. Having lost both parents just weeks apart - one to Omega, the other to a brutal beating inflicted by Chinese PLA soldiers - 12-year-old Raven Grayson finds herself in the nation’s new capital, battling loneliness and depression, all while trying to find her place among her fellow transplanted Eden survivors.

When a catastrophic event strikes Minneapolis, Sienna Nealon must make some hard choices about the people - and the home - she left behind.

Jason and family have escaped the latest battle for their lives. Who is remaining? Who is missing? What lengths will Jason and Kevin go too, to ensure their survival? Chairman Oswald has been shot down. Where is he? Can he get back in time to save America? Can he bring justice to those who started this?

In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in collective memory. He maps a new awareness of the United States as intrinsically connected to the broader context of the Americas. At once native and new to the American Southwest, Mexican Americans have “come home” in a profound sense: they have reasserted their right to claim that land and U.S. culture as their own.

An instant New York Times bestseller In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions. Including Felicia’s personal stories and...

They had survived the Zombie apocalypse and had escaped to an isolated location in the mountains in Western Pennsylvania. Then they had survived the roaming gangs of the living that appeared when civilization became a broken lawless free for all. Finally they had managed to live through the sub-freezing temperatures of a long Pennsylvania winter. Gary and Alyce hoped the cold winter had cleansed the world of the evils that taken over the world. As the warm sun of spring began to bring hope, Gary and Alyce leave their safe isolated cabin in the mountains in search of the answers to their ...

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of “home.”

Home: A Crown and Glory Lesbian Love Story By Zuri Amara Two women. One shelter. A love that feels like coming home. Ex-military and newly settled in Charlotte, Meeka Butler carries the quiet ache of loneliness and a lifetime of discipline. When she volunteers at a women’s shelter, she’s not looking for connection—just purpose. But then she meets Tavia Morrison, the shelter’s poised and passionate HR director, a woman who hides her exhaustion behind impeccable professionalism and long hours. What begins as a working partnership soon becomes something more profound. Long nights spent...

The seventh book in Natalie Keller Reinert’s beloved Eventing Series, set in the high-stakes world of three-day eventing, now reimagined with an all-new recording! Though Jules has spent her adult life bouncing from one farm to another, it never mattered: home was always where her horses were...